FG opens talks with South Africa over Nigerians’ abandoned assets

By Lawrence Agbo
The Federal Government has begun discussions with South African authorities over compensation for Nigerians forced to abandon businesses and other valuable assets while fleeing renewed anti-immigrant tensions in the country.
The move comes as another batch of 269 Nigerians arrived in Lagos aboard an evacuation flight, bringing the total number of citizens repatriated under the government’s emergency programme to 603.
Speaking on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief, Acting Nigerian High Commissioner to South Africa, Temitope Ajayi, said the government had started compiling detailed records of properties and investments left behind by returnees to support compensa...