Libya has an estimated one million migrants locked up in various dungeons across the country. Funded and equipped by European Union, Italy to keep them off crossing the precarious Atlantic ocean where estimated 5,000 refugees have died in recent years. The administrative will power of Libyan government is put to question amidst accusation of complicity in the heinous slave-trading. The quest to get free labor to make extra money from migrants has made the slave market lucrative, with cartels expanding in the bestial trade on daily bases.
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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
The National Public Relations Officer of NANS, Bestman Okereafor, gave this commendation in a statement issued to the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu
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
This was contained in a message to Nigerians on the occasion of the celebration of Maulid Nabiyy, the birth of Prophet Mohammed
President Muhammadu Buhari at the European Union-African Union Summit in Cote d’Ivoire said government would ensure that stranded Nigerians in Libya are brought home safely
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 upper chamber also condemned in totality the current depravity and sheer animalism being exhibited by the Libyans selling fellow Africans as slaves
The call followed a motion by Hon. Saheed Akinade-Fijabi on the “need to investigate the inhuman and barbaric act of slave trade involving the auctioning of black Africans in Libya”
The President while speaking when he addressed Nigerians in the Diaspora, vowed to reduce the number of Nigerians heading for Europe illegally through the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea by providing basic social amenities such as education, healthcare and food security at home
In the statement dated November 29, 2017 and signed by SERAP’ds Executive Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, the organization said: “Nigerian and other African victims of abuses in Libya are crying out for leadership. They urgently need African leaders to act. Given Nigeria’s leadership role in the region, Buhari can and should provide greater leadership to push European and African leaders to go beyond merely condemning the atrocities and act swiftly to end the shocking abuses, remove Nigerians and other African women, men and children still trapped in Libya from harm’s way, and guarantee their safety and well-being.”
The MP, who asked not to be named told Xinhua: “We were informed by the president of a political bloc in the parliament that the EU and some other major
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A Roman Catholic bishop and a Muslim imam both said prayers at the simple ceremony in the southern city of Salerno, with 26 wooden coffins laid out on a stone dais.
In a press statement released by his media office in Abuja, the Waziri Adamawa described his shock when watching the CNN news report, which showed video evidence of Nigerian illegal migrants en route to Europe captured by Libyan authorities being sold off for various amounts in the range of $400.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that their aircraft, a Boeing 737-800 with Registration Number 5A-DMG, landed at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at 7.37pm.
Joseph Alabi, the spokesperson for the Lagos Airport Police Command, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Lagos.
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Farinloye said that the aircraft that conveyed the deportees arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at 11:20 p.m on Tuesday aboard a chartered Airbus A320 Afriqiyah aircraft with registration number 5A-ONA.
Lavrov said that the Kremlin support the agreement reached between Nattional Army Commander, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar and Prime Minister of the Libyan Government of National Accord Fayez Sarraj.