{"id":245926,"date":"2026-09-29T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-demands-justice-over-death-of-3-nationals-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T08:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:00:33","slug":"nigeria-demands-justice-over-death-of-3-nationals-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-demands-justice-over-death-of-3-nationals-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Demands Justice Over Death of 3 Nationals in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>The Nigerian Consulate General in Johannesburg has called for justice over the death of three nationals in separate incidents across South Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Their deaths were reported to have occurred between Sept. 18 and Sept. 21, amid renewed concerns over the safety of Nigerians in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nigeria&#8217;s Consul-General in Johannesburg, Amb. Ninikanwa Okey-Uche, disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday, calling on South African authorities to establish the circumstances surrounding their deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609290050.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 Nigerian Consulate General in Johannesburg has called for justice over the death of three nationals in separate incidents across South Africa. Their deaths were reported to have occurred between Sept. 18 and Sept. 21, amid renewed concerns over the safety of Nigerians in the country. Nigeria&#8217;s Consul-General in Johannesburg, Amb. Ninikanwa Okey-Uche, disclosed this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":245927,"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":[258,256,6974,6979,6852,16316,257,4687,393,5069,254],"class_list":["post-245926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-death","tag-demands","tag-justice","tag-nationals","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south","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\/245926","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=245926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}