Tag: MEDITERRANEAN SEA
581 migrants, including Nigerians, rescued from Mediterranean
Spain’s maritime rescue service has said it saved 476 migrants, including Nigerians, who were attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Africa.
The migrants were pulled...
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...
Some Nigerians in Libya not willing to return – Diplomat
Charge d’Affaires of Nigeria in Libya, Illiya Fachano, says some Nigerians in the North African have refused to be repatriated in spite of the...
Nigerians feared eaten by sharks as boat sinks in the Mediterranean
At least 31 migrants – including Nigerians – are feared dead after they were set on by sharks during a perilous crossing from Africa...
FG protests burial of 26 Nigerian women by Italy
The Nigerian government has protested what it called the hasty burial of the 26 Nigerian women who were found dead on the Mediterranean Sea...
Dogara leads delegation to Italy after burial of 26 Nigerian women
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, is leading Nigerian delegation to Italy to discuss fight against human trafficking following the death of...
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...
Nigeria urges UN probe into deaths of 26 female migrants
Nigeria on Wednesday called for an international inquiry after 26 women and girls drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.
The bodies of...
Death of 26 Nigerians in Mediterranean Sea, tragic, avoidable says Dabiri-Erewa.
Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora on Tuesday described the death of 26 Nigerians in Mediterranean...
Body parts, seats, luggage from missing EgyptAir flight found
Debris from the missing EgyptAir flight has been found floating in the Mediterranean, Egyptian officials say, dashing hopes that there may be survivors.
Flight MS804...