The spokesperson for the Lagos Airport Police Command, Joseph Alabi, confirmed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that no fewer than 144 Nigerians voluntarily returned home aboard a chartered Buraq Airlines aircraft with registration number 5A-DMG
The Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement signed by the Spokesperson, Tiwatope Elias-Fatiile, on Tuesday, said the country’s embassy in Libya had been visiting detention camps to identify Nigerians for registration
The Edo State indigene, whose emotion-laden interview with CNN’s Nima Elbagir in a Libyan deportation camp was viewed by millions worldwide, shared his life-experiences in the Synagogue Church of All Nations, pastored by Pastor T. B. Joshua, on Sunday
Foka Fotsi, who was trafficked twice, told Reuters that those in charge of one of the places where he was held included Ghanaians and Nigerians
Wilmot explained that since these immigrants were mostly undocumented, who used illegal means to enter Libya and they were forced to do menial jobs, mostly “Malaga” (plastering buildings), but were usually handed over to the police when they pursue those who hired them for payment
The statement said: “IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 160,067 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea on November 19, 2017, with about 75 per cent arriving in Italy and the remainder divided between Greece, Cyprus and Spain.
The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons has confirmed and said that 3,887 have been deported since February this year
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the returnees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos in a chartered Airbus A330-200 flight with Registration number 5A- LAT at 9.15pm
No fewer than 13,000 people are estimated by the government to be victims of modern slavery, from sexual exploitation to domestic servitude, but police say the figure is the tip of the iceberg
“Forty others who were aboard were rescued and seven others are known to have lost their lives,” the International Organisation for Migration added in a tweet.
The UN Migration Agency in a new report on migrant deaths and disappearances worldwide through its Berlin-based Global Migration Data Analysis Centre said many migrants deaths were never recorded
On August 9 and 10, 280 migrants headed toward the Gulf countries were forced from two boats off the coast of Yemen’s Shabwa Governorate and drowned
“The survivors told our colleagues on the beach that the smuggler pushed them to the sea, when he saw some ‘authority types’ near the coast,” Laurent Boeck, the IOM Yemen Chief of Mission, said in a statement.
“The survivors told our colleagues on the beach that the smuggler pushed them to the sea, when he saw some ‘authority types’ near the coast,” Laurent Boeck, the IOM Yemen Chief of Mission, said in a statement
The organisation’s spokesman, Flavio Di Giacomo, said at a news briefing in Geneva that some 4,000 Nigerian girls had arrived so far in 2017
The UN migration agency, however, regretted 52 migrants, mostly from The Gambia, Nigeria, Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire, died over the period, according to its statement on Tuesday
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the aircraft landed about 9:43pm at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos
The International Organisation for Migration in Libya said seven people were rescued off the north-western city of Zawiya, and one of them said 113 others were missing
The returnees were made up of 102 males, 140 females, six children and five infants