The Tripoli-based interior ministry said in a statement it had arrested the three suspects in the case, adding that they had used petrol to set the victim on fire at a factory.
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Brent crude was down 33 cents or 0.8 per cent at $42.82 a barrel by 0645 GMT, while U.S. crude was down 38 cents or 0.9 per cent to $40.73 a barrel.
Speaking in a virtual interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on the impact of insecurity on migration, Franz Celestin, IOM Chief of Mission, said social media has influenced many more migrations than insecurity.
The spokesman of the Command, SP Isah Gmabo, revealed this on Wednesday in a statement.
The Spokesperson of the commission, Dele Oyewale, said that Ojemolon, 47, who claimed to be a builder based in Lagos State, was arrested on Wednesday in Edo State.
Galadima, a key political player in the country and major critic of President Muhammadu Buhari, said this in an interview with The Nation.
More than 200 illegal immigrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast, said the International Organisation for Migration.
A suspected human trafficker, Abubakar Suleiman, has admitted to Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team that so far, he has assisted in the trafficking of over 100 Nigerian ladies to Libya through the desert and usually charges N10,000 for each of them.
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Libya¸ Ghassan Salame, has resigned his appointment citing health reasons.
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed concern over the lack of tangible progress and the worsening security and humanitarian situation in Libya.
The National Emergency Management Agency has received another batch of 161 stranded Nigerians from Mtiga in Libya.
President Muhammadu Buhari says instability in State of Libya is a recurring threat to the Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa, and expressed concern over the growing effect of the crisis on many lives.
The Acting Coordinator, NEMA Lagos Territorial Office, Ibrahim Farinloye, received the returnees on behalf of the Director-General of NEMA at the cargo wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
“On October 24, we assisted 141 stranded Nigerian migrants in Libya to voluntarily return home on a charter flight from Sebha airport (in southern Libya),” IOM said in a statement.
The returnees, who arrived the country in two different flights, were received by the Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office, NEMA, Alhaji Abubakar Muhammed, at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
The National Emergency Management Agency on Thursday received another batch of 161 Nigerians from Libya barely 72 hours after a similar number came back from the volatile North African country.
As the nation celebrates her 59th independence anniversary, the National Emergency Management Agency received another batch of 161 stranded Nigerian returnees from Libya.
The National Emergency Management on Thursday morning received another batch of 158 Nigerians from Libya.
Alhaji Idris Muhammed, the Head of NEMA Territorial Office in Lagos, told newsmen that the agency received the returnees on behalf of the Federal Government.
The Director-General of NEMA, Mustapha Maihajja, represented by Slaku Lugard, an official of the agency, received the returnees on Wednesday in Lagos.
The president stated this when he received Letters of Credence from the Ambassador of Libya to Nigeria, Ayad Musbah Faraj Attayary, at the State House, Abuja, on Thursday.