{"id":226468,"date":"2026-03-09T13:28:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/nigeria-nidcom-condemns-arrest-of-42-nigerians-in-mozambique\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:28:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:28:55","slug":"nigeria-nidcom-condemns-arrest-of-42-nigerians-in-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/nigeria-nidcom-condemns-arrest-of-42-nigerians-in-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: NiDCOM Condemns Arrest of 42 Nigerians in Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>Ms Dabiri-Erewa said the sudden and specific round-up of only Nigerians seemed to be a xenophobic attack on Nigerian nationals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The Chairperson of the <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100064438193518\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigerians in Diaspora Commission<\/a><\/strong> (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has condemned the arrest of 42 Nigerians in Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Ms Dabiri-Erewa, <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abikedabiri\/status\/2030648668399784419?s=46\">in a post on X<\/a><\/strong>, described the arrest as disturbing and called for their immediate release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">&#8220;I am deeply concerned about the arrest of 42 Nigerians in Mozambique without any charges. I strongly condemn this&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603090084.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms Dabiri-Erewa said the sudden and specific round-up of only Nigerians seemed to be a xenophobic attack on Nigerian nationals. The Chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has condemned the arrest of 42 Nigerians in Mozambique. Ms Dabiri-Erewa, in a post on X, described the arrest as disturbing and called for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601496:9490b681fbcfbe2ee369728251ce5d2e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,6414,7610,4704,682,257,35963,4687,6665,254],"class_list":["post-226468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrest","tag-condemns","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-nidcom","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerians","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601496:9490b681fbcfbe2ee369728251ce5d2e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}