At least 300 people have protested at the Department of Justice over the deportation of a Nigerian family from their community in south Dublin, Ireland to South Africa.
Titilayo Oluwakemi Oyekanmi and her three sons, Samuel, Joseph and Genesis, arrived in Ireland in 2023 from South Africa and last year received a deportation order after their asylum application was rejected.
The planned deportation which was supposed to take place on Thursday, February 12, 2026 has been delayed for four weeks after the protest.
Ms Oyekanmi said her family face xenophobic threats and fears for the safety of her three sons if they are forced to return to South Africa.
Letters seeking to overturn a decision to deport the Oyekanmi family to South Africa later this week were handed in to the department on February 10, 2026.View/Read Original.