{"id":228820,"date":"2026-03-28T14:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-nidcom-condemns-arrest-of-42-nigerians-demands-immediate-release\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:09:20","slug":"mozambique-nidcom-condemns-arrest-of-42-nigerians-demands-immediate-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-nidcom-condemns-arrest-of-42-nigerians-demands-immediate-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: NIDCOM Condemns Arrest of 42 Nigerians, Demands Immediate Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The chairman\/chief executive officer of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has condemned the arrest of 42 Nigerians in Mozambique without any formal charges, describing the action as &#8220;distasteful&#8221; and unjust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Dabiri-Erewa called on Mozambican authorities to immediately release the detained Nigerians or properly arraign them in line with due process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">This is even as 13 of the arrested individuals were repatriated to Nigeria late Wednesday night aboard South African Airways&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603270037.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>The chairman\/chief executive officer of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has condemned the arrest of 42 Nigerians in Mozambique without any formal charges, describing the action as &#8220;distasteful&#8221; and unjust. Dabiri-Erewa called on Mozambican authorities to immediately release the detained Nigerians or properly arraign them in line with due process. This is even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":228821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,6414,7610,6979,4704,682,257,35963,6665,6011,254],"class_list":["post-228820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrest","tag-condemns","tag-demands","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-nidcom","tag-nigerians","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228820","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=228820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}