{"id":15072,"date":"2019-09-05T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=15072"},"modified":"2019-09-05T13:30:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:30:18","slug":"fg-begins-evacuation-of-nigerians-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-begins-evacuation-of-nigerians-in-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"FG begins evacuation of Nigerians in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Air Peace Airline would commence the evacuation of Nigerians in South Africa from Sept. 6, following recent attacks on Nigerians in that country.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ferdinand Nwonye, Spokesperson for the Ministry, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Nwonye said that Mr. Allen Onyema, Proprietor of Air Peace Airline, volunteered to send an aircraft from Friday, Sept. 6, to evacuate Nigerians who wish to return free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs wishes to inform the general public that following the recent xenophobic attack on foreign nationals, including Nigerians in South Africa, the Proprietor of Air Peace Airlines, has volunteered to send an aircraft to evacuate Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe general public is hereby advised to inform their relatives in South Africa to take advantage of this laudable gesture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInterested Nigerians are therefore advised to liaise with the High Commission of Nigeria in Pretoria and the Consulate General of Nigeria in Johannesburg for further necessary arrangement,\u201d the statement stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Air Peace Airline would commence the evacuation of Nigerians in South Africa from Sept. 6, following recent attacks on Nigerians in that country. Mr. Ferdinand Nwonye, Spokesperson for the Ministry, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Nwonye said that Mr. Allen Onyema, Proprietor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":15074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[204,816,556,642],"class_list":["post-15072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-government","tag-ministry-of-foreign-affairs","tag-south-africa","tag-xenophobia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FG begins evacuation of Nigerians in South Africa - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Air Peace Airline would commence the evacuation of Nigerians in South Africa from Sept. 6.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-begins-evacuation-of-nigerians-in-south-africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FG begins evacuation of Nigerians in South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Air Peace Airline would commence the evacuation of Nigerians in South Africa from Sept. 6.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-begins-evacuation-of-nigerians-in-south-africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-05T13:30:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/2-Nigerians-Killed-in-South-Africa-xenophobia.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-begins-evacuation-of-nigerians-in-south-africa#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-begins-evacuation-of-nigerians-in-south-africa\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"FG begins evacuation of Nigerians in South Africa\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-09-05T13:30:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-begins-evacuation-of-nigerians-in-south-africa\"},\"wordCount\":174,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-begins-evacuation-of-nigerians-in-south-africa#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/2-Nigerians-Killed-in-South-Africa-xenophobia.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Government\",\"Ministry of Foreign Affairs\",\"South africa\",\"Xenophobia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-begins-evacuation-of-nigerians-in-south-africa#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-begins-evacuation-of-nigerians-in-south-africa\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-begins-evacuation-of-nigerians-in-south-africa\",\"name\":\"FG begins evacuation of Nigerians in South Africa - 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