Tag: LIBYA
I was going to France for prostitution, Libya returnee confesses
A 22-year-old Libya returnee (names withheld) on Wednesday told newsmen in Lagos that she made the perilous journey to the North African country en...
Libya returnees disrupt empowerment programme in Edo
Some Libya returnees in Edo, on Monday, disrupted the town hall meeting organised by the State Task Force on Human Trafficking and Illegal Migration...
Libya’s eastern-based army orders African nationals to leave or be removed...
Libya’s eastern-based army has ordered nationals from neighbouring African countries in southern Libya to leave or they would be removed by force.
The information office...
CHAN 2018: Nigeria beat Libya 1-0 as Rwanda overcome Equatorial Guinea
Nigeria edged past Libya 1-0 at the African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Morocco as Rwanda beat Equatorial Guinea by the same scoreline in Friday's...
100 migrants missing in a shipwreck off Libya – Navy
The Libyan Navy on Wednesday said as many as 100 migrants have gone missing after their boat sank off the coast of Libya.
Libyan coastguard...
I consulted Ifa for safe return of my daughter from Libya...
Kehinde Enabulele, father of Eki, one of the 846 Edo indigenes who were repatriated from Libya on Tuesday, said that he visited an “Ifa...
Nigerian migrants feared dead as traffickers’ boat sinks off Libyan coast
As many as 64 African migrants, including a mother whose surviving three-year-old child clung to her as she drowned, are feared dead after a...
16,387 Nigerians deported from Libya, Saudi, others in 2017 says FG
The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Mr Muhammad Babandede, on Monday said that 16,387 Nigerians were deported from Libya, Saudi Arabia and other countries...
FG appoints Medview Airline to evacuate Nigerians from Libya
The Federal Government has appointed Med-View Airline, through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), to participate in the evacuation of 5,037 Nigerians from Libya.
Medview...
Obaseki appoints SSA on human trafficking, illegal migration
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo as appointed human rights activist, Solomon Okoduwa, as senior special assistant (SSA) on human trafficking and illegal migration.
Mr Okoduwa,...