DIASPORA
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THE LAST FLIGHT HOME
The fifth and final evacuation flight from South Africa lands in Lagos this morning. It took five weeks and five separate trips to bring everyone home who asked. An Air Peace flight carrying 315 Nigerians departed Johannesburg at 1.30am and is due into Murtala…
THE LIST NIGERIA ISN’T ON
Canada just published a list of African countries that get easier entry. Nigeria, despite sending more people abroad than almost anywhere else on the continent, isn’t on it. Twenty seven African countries now enjoy simplified entry arrangements into Canada under…
THE OFFICE THAT CLOSED WITHOUT WARNING
Nigeria shut down the operator of its US visa application centres this week, effective immediately, with no advance notice to anyone whose application was already in progress. If you had an appointment booked with OIS Services this week to submit a Nigerian visa…
124 NAMES, NO FILE
The US published the names and photographs of 124 Nigerians marked for deportation this week. No individual case was attached to any of them. That absence is the story. On Wednesday the US Department of Homeland Security added 124 Nigerian names to its public…
THE PAPERWORK NOBODY TRUSTS
Nigeria is the second most rejected nationality for UK visas in the world, and the paperwork trust problem doesn’t stop at the border. It starts at home. Between 2005 and the first quarter of 2026, the UK rejected 1,344,595 visa applications from Nigerians. Only…
THE PROTECTION THAT DIDN’T FLY OUT
Two Nigerians are dead in South Africa. The government’s response has been evacuation flights. The response from Nigerian students has been an ultimatum. That gap tells you where the real urgency sits. Musa Yunana Joe was killed in front of his shop in eMalahleni….
FROM UNILAG TO ROSTOV
A Nigerian graduate gave her valedictory speech in fluent Russian. Dr Dorcas Akanbi finished medical school at Rostov State Medical University this month. She graduated with a 4.90 out of 5.00 cumulative grade point average, one of the best results in her class. She…
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