{"id":229238,"date":"2026-04-01T14:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/nigeria-40-detained-nigerians-deported-from-mozambique\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:20:44","slug":"nigeria-40-detained-nigerians-deported-from-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/nigeria-40-detained-nigerians-deported-from-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 40 Detained Nigerians Deported From Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has confirmed the deportation of 40 out of 42 Nigerians arrested and locked up for weeks in Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">In a statement on Tuesday, the NIDCOM&#8217;s spokesman, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, said they arrived in Nigeria in three batches of 13, 16, and 11 respectively aboard a South African Airways flight, SA60 and an Ethiopian Airlines flight on March 24, 26 and 27, with two of them remaining in Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">The Commission noted that the deportation did not follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604010023.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 Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has confirmed the deportation of 40 out of 42 Nigerians arrested and locked up for weeks in Mozambique. In a statement on Tuesday, the NIDCOM&#8217;s spokesman, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, said they arrived in Nigeria in three batches of 13, 16, and 11 respectively aboard a South African Airways flight, SA60 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229239,"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":[258,256,7249,3707,4704,682,257,4687,6665,254],"class_list":["post-229238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deported","tag-detained","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","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\/229238","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=229238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}