Ikenna Nweke | Japan-based PhD student shows there are honest Nigerians

Ikenna Nweke, a Nigerian PhD Student at the University of Tsukuba in Japan has demonstrated that there are honest Nigerians the world can trust. Nweke has been the toast of Nigerians and the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission after he returned to the owner, a purse containing money and other valuables, which he stumbled upon.

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Trapped in Thai airport: social media ‘rescues’ three Nigerians

By Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban | Africa News

It started with a post on Twitter by a journalist, Richard Barrow. He tweeted some Nigerians had been trapped at a Thai airport. Unable to enter the country or to return home. He posted the episode on May 17.

It read in part: “Apparently there are some Nigerians who have been trapped at Suvarnabhumi airport for the last two months just like in the movie The Terminal. They cannot enter Thailand and they cannot go home.

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Fresh hope for stranded South Africans in Myanmar

By Yolisa Tswanya | IOL

South Africans stranded in Myanmar have banded together as there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel for them to return home. The Department of International Relations and Co-operation (Dirco) has been working to bring home many South Africans stuck in foreign countries, but due to borders being closed some in Myanmar are yet to be assisted.

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South African woman on living in Korea during the pandemic: ‘I went from being paranoid to taking each day as it comes’

By Karabo Mavuso | NEWS24

Last month over 100 South Africans were brought home from the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China. While each member of that group tested negative for the virus they were still taken to Limpopo to be quarantined.

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COVID 19: Nigerians in China donate hand sanitizers to Nigerian Government

By Victor Ajihromanus | VANGUARD

Some Nigerian organisations in China have donated cartons of hand sanitizers to the Nigerian Government in support of efforts to curtail the spread of Coronavirus disease. The organisations include Nigerian students resident in Wuhan,  Nigerian Patriots China, and Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation (NIDO) China.

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Sub-Saharan African Immigrants in the U.S. Are Often More Educated Than Those in Top European Destinations

Sub-Saharan immigrants in the United States are also more highly educated than U.S. native-born population

BY MONICA ANDERSON AND PHILLIP CONNOR | PEW RESEARCH CENTER

As the annual number of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa to both the United States and Europe has grown for most years this decade, a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau and Eurostat data finds that sub-Saharan immigrants in the U.S. tend to be more highly educated than those living in the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Portugal – Europe’s historically leading destinations among sub-Saharan immigrants.

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