Wednesday, October 22, 2025
  • Who’sWho Africa AWARDS
  • About TimeAfrica Magazine
  • Contact Us
Time Africa Magazine
  • Home
  • Magazine
  • WHO’SWHO AWARDS
  • News
  • World News
    • US
    • UAE
    • Europe
    • UK
    • Israel-Hamas
    • Russia-Ukraine
  • Politics
  • Crime
  • Lifestyle
  • Sports
  • Column
  • Interviews
  • Special Report
No Result
View All Result
Time Africa Magazine
  • Home
  • Magazine
  • WHO’SWHO AWARDS
  • News
  • World News
    • US
    • UAE
    • Europe
    • UK
    • Israel-Hamas
    • Russia-Ukraine
  • Politics
  • Crime
  • Lifestyle
  • Sports
  • Column
  • Interviews
  • Special Report
No Result
View All Result
Time Africa Magazine
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • WHO’SWHO AWARDS
  • News
  • Magazine
  • World News

Home » Special Report » Harry and Meghan have taken four of their own security guards to Nigeria – but their hosts will be footing the bill

Harry and Meghan have taken four of their own security guards to Nigeria – but their hosts will be footing the bill

May 12, 2024
in Special Report
0
545
SHARES
4.5k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

By Nick Pisa In Abuja

Prince Harry and Meghan’s visit to Nigeria – the world’s 12th most dangerous country – has raised eyebrows after Harry questioned his own security in the UK.

Official advice from the UK government is to avoid ‘all but essential travel’ to parts of Nigeria which has a murder rate of 34 per 100,000 people (the UK Is just over one) and is prone to kidnappings.

Although the capital Abuja where Meghan and Harry flew into is deemed relatively safe, the military base at Kaduna in northwest Nigeria on the itinerary, is seen as a hot ‘red zone’ – and comparatively far more dangerous than London.

ReadAlso

PDP Chairmanship Position: Odds Favour Tanimu Turaki

Frustrated Gen Z Threatens to Topple African Governments

Even locals have been advised to avoid the main highway linking Abuja to Kaduna which has been dubbed ‘kidnap alley’ after a spate of abductions earlier this year and is in parts ruled by armed bandits.

Ken Wharfe, former royal protection officer the late Princess of Wales visited Nigeria in the early 90s with her and now King Charles.

ADVERTISEMENT

Speaking exclusively to MailOnline Mr Wharfe laid bare the hypocrisy of Harry who deemed Britain unsafe but was happy to travel to Nigeria.

He said: “I went to Nigeria with Harry’s mother and father and it was pretty lawless back then and so you do have to question why he has gone there if he says the safety of his wife and children is uppermost.

“Outriders, machine guns on trucks and armed guards all sounds pretty dramatic and if there is that level of security you have to suppose the risk is very high which again raises the question of why go.

“If the situation deems that level of protection, then you do have to ask why he is there and for him to say he feels unsafe in London when he has all that security in London does leave you asking does it make sense to go.

“He’s going to a high-risk country and I’m sure he will be looked after but he is a high level target and one that would certainly in the feather of anyone looking to make him a dramatic impact.

“A member of the British royal family is about as pretty high as gets and what better target can you have, yet he is happy to travel there but question his safety in London, it does small of hypocrisy.

“I appreciate Invictus Games and Archewell are important to him but if you are going somewhere that demands that level of security then you just don’t do it, why take the risk?”

For their 72 hours ‘private trip’ Harry and Meghan have their own four-man security team which they have paid for themselves, and they have also been given unprecedented security by Nigeria.

On Friday when they arrived at the Defence Headquarters in Abuja where they paid a visit to the Chief of Defence staff General Christopher Musa, they had an astonishing 14 car convoy.

The escort was made up of ten army vehicles, including three Toyota pickups mounted with machine guns and two ambulances.

Outriders preceded the convoy, and the protection was provided by balaclava wearing, machine gun toting members of the Nigerian Army – one wearing a menacing skull motive.

Just hours before Harry and Megan arrived in Nigeria, armed kidnappers abducted dozens of students in a raid at the Kogi State University of Science and Technology, 200 miles south of Abuja in Anyigba.

According to an eye witness account, a large group of gunmen entered the campus from surrounding countryside and started shooting sporadically into the premises.

In a fire fight lasting 30 minutes security staff fought off the attackers although the gang managed to get into lecture halls and snatch dozens of students who were taken away.

The astonishing level of protection comes after Harry launched a legal challenge in the UK where he argued against the loss of his Metropolitan Police bodyguards.

Last year he brought a legal challenge against the downgrading of his security when he stopped being working a royal.

In February he lost that claim and then a further appeal last month was also rejected but he intends to carry on the fight with his legal ran saying they would ‘challenge the decision’.

The High Court turned down his request for security saying:’The reality of the matter is that the claimant considers he should receive a different approach to his protection whilst in the UK than Ravec decided he should, based in part on his comparison of his own position with that of others.

Ravec, as an expert body, concluded otherwise. It was entitled to do so,’ said the ruling from Sir Peter Lane.

And the judge said the appeal bid did not add to the claim but was a ‘recapitulation of the case’ that had previously been brought.

Prince Harry’s legal team had argued that he had been treated unfairly in the changes to his police protection, when he still faced significant security threats.

But the High Court ruled in February that there had been no unlawfulness in the decision-making.

Source: MailOnline

Tags: NewsNigeriaPrince Harry
ADVERTISEMENT
Previous Post

Prince Harry mercilessly trolled for looking like African royalty

Next Post

Godfatherism: Forgive me, Fubara Is A Mistake — Wike begs Rivers People

You MayAlso Like

Special Report

Frustrated Gen Z Threatens to Topple African Governments

October 16, 2025
A protester reacts while running past a burning tyre used as a barricade during clashes with Malagasy security forces amid a strike calling for constitutional reforms and the resignation of President Andry Rajoelina in Antananarivo. [Luis Tato/AFP]
Featured

Madagascar in Turmoil: Unpacking Root Causes Behind Violent Antigovernment Protests

October 12, 2025
Special Report

The Woman Who Wants to End Cameroon’s Paul Biya 43-Year Rule

October 11, 2025
A drug addict in Pretoria, South Africa, in March.Credit...Themba Hadebe/Associated Press
Special Report

Addicts Are Now Injecting Blood to Get High — Yes, Blood

October 10, 2025
Special Report

Faked or Factual: UNN Contradictory Claims on Minister Uche Nnaji Certificate Raise Questions of Credibility

October 5, 2025
Special Report

Certificate Scandal: University of Nigeria Declares Minister Uche Nnaji Never Graduated

October 4, 2025
Next Post

Godfatherism: Forgive me, Fubara Is A Mistake — Wike begs Rivers People

First Person To Receive Genetic Pig Kidney Transplant Dies Almost 2 Months Later

Discussion about this post

Open Letter to the Enugu State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs

PDP Chairmanship Position: Odds Favour Tanimu Turaki

Coup Rumours Are False — Nigerian Defence Headquarters

Finally, Family Confirms Death of Rev. Dr. Uma Ukpai, Dies at 80

Frustrated Gen Z Threatens to Topple African Governments

Cameroon: Paul Biya’s 43 Years of Power Threatened as Opposition Issa Tchiroma Declares Election Victory

  • British government apologizes to Peter Obi, as hired impostors, master manipulators on rampage abroad

    1242 shares
    Share 497 Tweet 311
  • Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market

    1068 shares
    Share 427 Tweet 267
  • Flight Attendant Sees Late Husband On Plane

    975 shares
    Share 390 Tweet 244
  • ‘Céline Dion Dead 2023’: Singer killed By Internet Death Hoax

    905 shares
    Share 362 Tweet 226
  • Crisis echoes, fears grow in Amechi Awkunanaw in Enugu State

    737 shares
    Share 295 Tweet 184
  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest

British government apologizes to Peter Obi, as hired impostors, master manipulators on rampage abroad

April 13, 2023

Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market

December 27, 2022
Flight Attendant Sees Late Husband On Plane

Flight Attendant Sees Late Husband On Plane

September 22, 2023
‘Céline Dion Dead 2023’: Singer killed By Internet Death Hoax

‘Céline Dion Dead 2023’: Singer killed By Internet Death Hoax

March 21, 2023
Chief Mrs Ebelechukwu, wife of Willie Obiano, former governor of Anambra state

NIGERIA: No, wife of Biafran warlord, Bianca Ojukwu lied – Ebele Obiano:

0

SOUTH AFRICA: TO LEAVE OR NOT TO LEAVE?

0
kelechi iheanacho

TOP SCORER: IHEANACHA

0
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

WHAT CAN’TBE TAKEN AWAY FROM JONATHAN

0

PDP: Why Tanimu Turaki Holds the Key to Party Rebirth

October 20, 2025

2025 PDP Convention: History Beckons on Tanimu Turaki

October 19, 2025

Prince Andrew gives up all Royal titles including Duke of York

October 19, 2025

Moammar Gadhafi’s son ordered released, But Only If He Pays $11 Million Bail

October 19, 2025

ABOUT US

Time Africa Magazine

TIMEAFRICA MAGAZINE is an African Magazine with a culture of excellence; a magazine without peer. Nearly a third of its readers hold advanced degrees and include novelists, … READ MORE >>

SECTIONS

  • Aviation
  • Column
  • Crime
  • Europe
  • Featured
  • Gallery
  • Health
  • Interviews
  • Israel-Hamas
  • Lifestyle
  • Magazine
  • Middle-East
  • News
  • Politics
  • Press Release
  • Russia-Ukraine
  • Science
  • Special Report
  • Sports
  • TV/Radio
  • UAE
  • UK
  • US
  • World News

Useful Links

  • AllAfrica
  • Channel Africa
  • El Khabar
  • The Guardian
  • Cairo Live
  • Le Republicain
  • Magazine: 9771144975608
  • Subscribe to TIMEAFRICA MAGAZINE biweekly news magazine

    Enjoy handpicked stories from around African continent,
    delivered anywhere in the world

    Subscribe

    • About TimeAfrica Magazine
    • Privacy Policy
    • Contact Us
    • WHO’SWHO AWARDS

    © 2025 TimeAfrica Magazine - All Right Reserved. TimeAfrica Magazine Ltd is published by Times Associates, registered Nigeria. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Service.

    No Result
    View All Result
    • WHO’SWHO AWARDS
    • Politics
    • Column
    • Interviews
    • Gallery
    • Lifestyle
    • Special Report
    • Sports
    • TV/Radio
    • Aviation
    • Health
    • Science
    • World News

    © 2025 TimeAfrica Magazine - All Right Reserved. TimeAfrica Magazine Ltd is published by Times Associates, registered Nigeria. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Service.

    This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.