Tag: LIBYA
CHAN: Nigeria to face former champions Libya
Nigeria were grouped with former title-holders Libya, Rwanda and Equatorial Guinea when the 2018 African Nations Championship (CHAN) draw was made in Rabat Friday.
The...
Italy buries 26 Nigerian women who died crossing Mediterranean Sea
More than two dozen young Nigerian women who drowned during a migrant crossing from Libya were honoured Friday with an interfaith funeral.
The ceremony closes...
Another 257 Nigerians return from Libya
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday received another 257 Nigerian voluntary returnees flown back from Libya.
The returnees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed...
165 more Nigerians return from Libya
No fewer than 165 Nigerians voluntarily returned from Libya on Thursday aboard a chartered Nouvelair aircraft with registration number TS-INA.
The returnees, made up of...
258 more Nigerians return from Libya
No fewer than 258 more Nigerian returnees from Libya arrived the country on Thursday aboard a chartered Airbus A330-200 with registration mark 5A-LAT operated...
UNICEF confirms rape, torture of Nigerian women and children in Libya
Nigerian Women and children and others making the dangerous journey to Europe to flee poverty and conflicts in Africa are being beaten, raped and...
I was sold into slavery, burnt with iron, forced to drink...
Gift Peters, one of the 171 Nigerians who voluntarily returned home from Libya on Tuesday has recounted how she was sold into slavery in...
171 more Nigerians voluntarily return from Libya
No fewer than 171 Nigerians voluntarily returned from Libya on Tuesday aboard a chartered Nouvelair aircraft with registration number TS-1NB which landed at about...
We were raped, kidnapped in Libya, Nigerian returnees lament
Some Nigerian returnees from Libya have narrated their experiences in the hands of officials in the North African country.
Some of the returnees appealed to...
Nigerian survivors recount horror as bodies of migrants arrive Italy
Some Nigerians have recounted their horrible experience on a migrant ship after the bodies of 21 women and one man were brought ashore to...