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SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by RandDigital(op): 8:05pm On Sep 28

South African diplomats in Nigeria helped bring a three-year-old boy back to his family in Johannesburg after his mother was arrested for an alleged drug offence.

The boy’s 38-year-old mother from Brakpan was arrested in July 2026 at Abuja airport after Nigerian authorities found 5.75 kg of heroin in her luggage. She had travelled from Doha with her son. She was later sentenced to a long prison term, reportedly 25 years, leaving the young boy stranded in Nigeria.

South African diplomatic staff decided to help. They collected money among themselves (25,000 rands / $1,500) to pay for the child’s flight home.

A South African diplomat, Jerry Sibanyoni, travelled with the boy from Abuja to Lagos and then to Johannesburg. The child arrived at OR Tambo International Airport on Saturday, 26 September, where he was reunited with his grandfather.

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by princepee(m): 6:30am On Sep 29

So the southies do drugs business in Nigeria huh

?

Then All southies should be deported back to their cantry..
I strongly believe Nigeria should cut diplomatic ties with south Africa

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by LagbajaTheBEREAN: 6:32am On Sep 29

Farrel isn't smart one bit and it's obvious with the nonsense of a comment he's spewing up there.

If you make yourself available for crime be ready to do the time, nothing more nothing less.

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by telim: 6:33am On Sep 29

Every South African and Mexicans entering Nigeria should be thoroughly screened at the port of entry. There are growing concerns about south african and mexican drug traffickers. The government needs to urgently step in to protect our youth before drug dealers turn them into addicts.

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by Gingerly: 6:34am On Sep 29

South Africans are drug dealers.

Case closed.

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by shadrach77: 6:34am On Sep 29

See some goats saying Nigerians must be involved. Why will you think so lowly of your country?

It's a good thing the boy has reconnected with his grandfather.

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by tuoyoojo(m): 6:36am On Sep 29

Why would a mother put the life of her child at risk when u know you are carrying contraband

It's something I can never understand

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by CrackedScreen: 6:36am On Sep 29

And no one could poison that upcoming GO BERK animal?

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by tuoyoojo(m): 6:37am On Sep 29

25 years is a very long time

By the time she is leaving

Her son would be an adult

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by FSBoperator: 6:38am On Sep 29

The woman has that meth face.

Clearly a meth head from her premature ageing face .

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by FSBoperator: 6:39am On Sep 29

tuoyoojo:
Why would a mother put the life of her child at risk when u know you are carrying contraband

It's something I can never understand

She looks too old for 38

Obviously a meth head.

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by CrackedScreen: 6:39am On Sep 29

tuoyoojo:
Why would a mother put the life of her child at risk when u know you are carrying contraband

It's something I can never understand

Because they are animals you need to go to jborg CBD to see things yourself

These things ain't human

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by FSBoperator: 6:40am On Sep 29

LagbajaTheBEREAN:
Farrel isn't smart one bit and it's obvious with the nonsense of a comment he's spewing up there.

If you make yourself available for crime be ready to do the time, nothing more nothing less.

He is right.

Nigerian drug gangs have been recruiting foreign women to traffic drugs for them.

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by tuoyoojo(m): 6:41am On Sep 29

FSBoperator:
She looks too old for 38

Obviously a meth head.

Yeah, you are probably right

This probably explains her impaired judgement

The kind withdrawal effects she would feel in prison eh

Inside Nigerian prison for that matter

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by FSBoperator: 6:41am On Sep 29

CrackedScreen:
Because they are animals you need to go to jborg CBD to see things yourself

These things ain't human

And what are you doing among these people you call animals ?

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by CrackedScreen: 6:42am On Sep 29

FSBoperator:
And what are you doing among these people you call animals ?

I left SA in 2018 after my car was sold right in front of me

I don't deal with monkeys

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by tuoyoojo(m): 6:42am On Sep 29

CrackedScreen:
Because they are animals you need to go to jborg CBD to see things yourself

These things ain't human

She is probably a crack head

She probably wanted to use the child as a decoy

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by Dalohad: 6:43am On Sep 29

How I wish it was a black southie that was captured by the NDLEA.

I will personally pay warders and boys in Kirikiri or Kuje prisons to make sure he never sleeps for a day.

They'll flog him 24 lashes everyday for the rest of his miserable incarceration.

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by obuburam: 6:43am On Sep 29

Lol, these people also do drugs.
With the way they shout about Nigerians on X, you'll think they have no business with drugs.

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by wasi9ice: 6:44am On Sep 29

So it's not only Nigerians that carry drugs
I pity the young boy shaa.

I hope his mother regains her freedom via any possible means and stop the bad habit

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by RandDigital(op): 6:46am On Sep 29

Dalohad:
How I wish it was a black southie that was captured by the NDLEA.

I will personally pay warders and boys in Kirikiri or Kuje prisons to make sure he never sleeps for a day.

They'll flog him 24 lashes everyday for the rest of his miserable incarceration.

Keep dreaming, only drug mules and crackheads go to Nigeria.

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by tuoyoojo(m): 6:50am On Sep 29

Dalohad:
How I wish it was a black southie that was captured by the NDLEA.

I will personally pay warders and boys in Kirikiri or Kuje prisons to make sure he never sleeps for a day.

They'll flog him 24 lashes everyday for the rest of his miserable incarceration.

You nor get joy at all o

Hehehe

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Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by Fekumzi123: 6:55am On Sep 29

The hustle is real.. this is not funny 🤣.
No, I don't want to laugh at SA.

Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by 3weeksblocking: 7:00am On Sep 29

RandDigital:
Keep dreaming, only drug mules and crackheads go to Nigeria.

I will personally pay to see a south African

Grrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by tishbite41(m): 7:01am On Sep 29

Even the best species of South Africans are drug runners?!
Chai

grin

Talk less of the monkey men
grin

Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by friday2011(m): 7:01am On Sep 29

Good one from the nigerian government, they should have doubled the prison term by 2 (50yrs)

Any southy person wey commit crime for nigeria, make there prison term dey long like snake, awon werey.

Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by SonOfWords(m): 7:06am On Sep 29

obuburam:
Lol, these people also do drugs.
With the way they shout about Nigerians on X, you'll think they have no business with drugs.

South Africans traffic more drugs than Nigerians.

As a matter of fact, Nigerians and other African nationals are enticed into the trade because of how easy and profitable it is to engage and profit from it in South Africa.

Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by Femancy34: 7:07am On Sep 29

FSBoperator:
He is right.

Nigerian drug gangs have been recruiting foreign women to traffic drugs for them.

You're not smart as well to understand his ascertion.

Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by IMPARTIAL: 7:08am On Sep 29

This case get as ee be. With this, South Africa will seek every opportunity to hammer any Nigerian found to have committed any offense over there.

How I wish the case was settled in a different way...maybe by us reaching out to SA then and handing over the woman to them for prosecution, and making the case go viral. This is to provide a soft landing for our people over there in case of any thing. I know that South Africans hate us.

Re: SA Toddler Stranded In Nigeria Flown Back Home After Diplomats Raise Funds by JuanDeDios: 7:17am On Sep 29

I'm

RandDigital:
South African diplomats in Nigeria helped bring a three-year-old boy back to his family in Johannesburg after his mother was arrested for an alleged drug offence.

The boy’s 38-year-old mother from Brakpan was arrested in July 2026 at Abuja airport after Nigerian authorities found 5.75 kg of heroin in her luggage. She had travelled from Doha with her son. She was later sentenced to a long prison term, reportedly 25 years, leaving the young boy stranded in Nigeria.

South African diplomatic staff decided to help. They collected money among themselves (25,000 rands / $1,500) to pay for the child’s flight home.

A South African diplomat, Jerry Sibanyoni, travelled with the boy from Abuja to Lagos and then to Johannesburg. The child arrived at OR Tambo International Airport on Saturday, 26 September, where he was reunited with his grandfather.

"It's a war of exchanging drugs now." Lol.

It says she was arrested in July 2026. And has been sentenced to 25 years. No way our courts are that fast. Must be an error.

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