The organization in a statement on Tuesday by its Director of Media and Publicity, O’Seun John, condemned the targeted harassment, killings and destruction of Nigerian businesses in South Africa allegedly aided by the South African Government.
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Popular Nigerian celebrities, including Toke Makinwa, Funke Akindele, Mo Abudu, amongst others, have condemned the incessant attacks on Nigerians and other Africans in South Africa.
Mkongi, who spoke at a press conference in a video seen by The Eagle Online, said the attack on foreign nationals by South Africans, cannot be described as xenophobia but a fight to secure the country
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.
Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama on Monday condemned the renewed xenophobic attacks on Nigerians living in South Africa, describing the perpetrators as mindless criminals.
The National Association of Nigerian Students on Saturday shutdown South Africa’s grocery chain, Shoprite at Ota in Ogun State.
The call by Comrade Hussaini Ebbo, Chairman, NANS Joint Campus Committee, Niger State Axis, is in reaction to recurring killing of Nigerians in South Africa, with recent strangling of Elizabeth Ndubuisi-Chukwu as the latest.
NANS’ Director, Travels and Exchange, Dominic Philip, explained in Kaduna that the step was necessary to curb further attacks, looting, destruction and mindless killings of African nationalities, particularly Nigerians in South Africa.
Ndubisi-Chukwu was the Deputy Director-General of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria and was killed on June 13 in her hotel room.
The President of CPND, Alex Orjim made the assertion on Thursday during the candlelight procession in honour of the slain Nigerian Insurance chief, Elizabeth Ndubuisi-Chukwu, who was killed in a hotel in South Africa.
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 All Progressives Congress, South African Chapter, has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that the lives of Nigerians are safe in South Africa.
The death toll of Nigerians killed in South Africa has continued to rise with another two being the latest victims in ongoing xenophobic attacks on foreigners in that country.
The Nigerian Union in South Africa has expressed displeasure with the alleged violent attack of Nigerians in the latest wave of xenophobic attacks on foreigners in that country.
As Xenophobia on Sunday reared its ugly head again in South Africa, Nigerians have lost more than nine shops to arsonists in Hillbrow, central Johannesburg.
The South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, on Wednesday said the South African government was not in support of xenophobia attacks on Nigerians and other countries.
The EWS is a multi-sectoral mechanism to afford Nigerians living in South Africa access to the agencies responsible for their safety and security, as well as the mandate to address their complaints in that country.
Oyintiloye told the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Osogbo that the recent killing of a Nigerian in xenophobia attack in South Africa was barbaric, inhuman and unacceptable to Nigerians.
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.