{"id":229270,"date":"2026-04-02T02:02:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-govt-repatriates-1230-citizens-from-niger\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:02:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:02:59","slug":"nigerian-govt-repatriates-1230-citizens-from-niger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-govt-repatriates-1230-citizens-from-niger\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Govt Repatriates 1,230 Citizens From Niger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The federal government has repatriated 1,230 stranded Nigerians from the Republic of Niger, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The ministry&#8217;s spokesperson, Kimiebi Ebienfa, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Mr Ebienfa said the returnees arrived in two batches &#8211; 708 on March 23 and 522 on March 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">He said the evacuation, carried out in collaboration with relevant partners, including the International&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604010492.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has repatriated 1,230 stranded Nigerians from the Republic of Niger, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said. The ministry&#8217;s spokesperson, Kimiebi Ebienfa, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Mr Ebienfa said the returnees arrived in two batches &#8211; 708 on March 23 and 522 on March 29. Follow us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229271,"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":[249],"tags":[258,256,7604,4357,257,404,393,482,11459,254],"class_list":["post-229270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-citizens","tag-govt","tag-news","tag-niger","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-repatriates","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\/229270","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}