News
Nigerian community decries murder of businessman in South Africa
The murder of a businessman, Olusola Solarin, by suspected armed robbers in South Africa has thrown the Nigerian community in the former apartheid enclave into mourning.
In a statement issued on Saturday by its President, Collins Mgbo, and Secretary-General, Nimram Durven Longbap-Longs, the Nigeria Union in South Africa (NUSA) said the businessman met his untimely death after supplying goods to customers outside Johannesburg.
The union added that Solarin’s death brought to 127 the number of Nigerians that had been brutally killed by their hosts since 2019.
It noted that 13 Nigerians were killed by South African police in 2021.
READ ALSO: Nigerian businessman accused of laundering money from Ponzi scheme in US
Solarin, who hailed from Makun in Sagamu local government area of Ogun State, operated a chain of businesses including pharmaceuticals, clothes and shoe outlets in South Africa.
The statement read: “He (Solarin) was returning to his base when he was waylaid and in an attempt to prevent his assailants from collecting the money he was paid by customers, the assailants murdered him.
“NUSA hereby expresses its heartfelt condolences to the family of our murdered compatriot, Olusola Solarin over his brutal and senseless murder.”
The union also urged the Nigerian government to protect Nigerians and their businesses in South Africa as they have become soft targets for criminals in the country.
Join the conversation
Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism
Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.
As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.
If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.
Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.
INVESTIGATION: In Kwara, multimillion-naira milk processing plant is abandoned, converted to a chicken outlet
After the government spent millions of naira to establish a milk processing plant in Kwara State that would provided jobs...
SPECIAL REPORT: For Sokoto communities, promise of healthcare is akin to death sentence
In this story, ABDULRASHEED HAMMAD delves into the dire realities of Primary Health Care services in Sokoto State, shedding light...
ICYMI…SPECIAL REPORT: NNPCL hides behind PIA to frustrate disclosure, accountability
Nigeria’s major oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), in what appears to be a common practice of disregard...
INVESTIGATION: Multi-million naira Ekiti resort center remains uncompleted a decade after
The multimillion-naira project, expected to comprise recreational buildings, now consists of cassava farmland, a bush used for excretion, and a...
SPECIAL REPORT: Torturous experiences of students with disabilities in Oyo tertiary institutions
For students with disabilities in Oyo state-owned tertiary institutions, learning is a torturous and distressing experience, considering the building structures...