The group made the declaration at a special dinner held in Frankfurt, Germany in honour of the former Abia State governor.
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South Africans have begun fresh attacks, looting and burning of properties belonging to foreigners and in the process killed three people, while another is still receiving treatment for smoke inhalation.
A Nigerian Taxify driver, Benjamin Okoronkwo, has been shot dead in Johannesburg, South Africa by unknown gunmen.
The Nigerian Union in South Africa on Saturday commended South Africa’s Gauteng Province for initiating a Social Cohesion Programme to end discrimination and xenophobia in the province.
The Nigerian community in South Africa says it has protested the misrepresentation made against their country by an official of a South African organisation on air.
The Assistant General Secretary of the union, Collins Mgbo, gave the clarification in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt from Polokwane, South Africa.
Paul Nwanedo, the Chairman of the union in the Province, told the News Agency of Nigeria on the telephone from Rustenburg on Thursday that the attackers beat a woman and her child.
Nwanedo said taxi drivers in Rustenburg alleged that a Nigerian abducted and raped a 16-year-old South African girl and also alleged that Nigerians sold drugs to a local gang that attacked their members.
Warrant Officer Jan Esterhuysen, the Rural Safety Coordinator of Fochville, in Western Johannesburg, said the lions, a large male and four smaller ones, escaped from an unknown sanctuary on September 9.
Williams Mabasa, the spokesman for the South African National Parks, said four male lions escaped from the Kruger National Park at Mpumalanga Province on Sunday.
The law is to coordinate and organise Nigerians in and from the Diaspora to contribute human capital and material resources, including their expertise for the development of Nigeria and its constituent states.
Ikechukwu Anyene, the President, Nigeria Union in South Africa, told the News Agency of Nigeria on telephone from Pretoria, South Africa that some Nigerians received calls asking for payment to protect their homes and businesses