Nigeria: Stranded - Professor, Who Renounced Nigerian Citizenship, Expelled From His New Country

25 February 2021

Mr Ijeoma arrived in South Africa in 1998 to study at the University of Pretoria. He is now accused of bigamy.

Having earlier renounced his Nigerian citizenship, Edwin Ijeoma, a professor of public sector economics at the University of Fort Hare, was left in the cold after his South African citizenship was revoked by the country's ministry of home affairs. He is now stateless.

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