Kefas, who announced this at a news conference on the current situation on Nigerians in Libya, said that 1,700 Nigerians were serving various jail terms in `accessible’ prison in that country.
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Tripoli’s police department said that random shells fell on civilians in the area of Khallet al-Furjan, adjacent to the Salah al-Din neighbourhood where the clashes are taking place.
Ademola Olajire, the Director of Communications at the Nigeria Football Federation, said in a statement on Wednesday the inspection was an indication preparations have begun in earnest.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, says that 116 of the Nigerian migrants trapped in Libya slave camps would be repatriated home soon.
This cheering news was contained in a statement by the Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa.
The National Emergency Management Agency on Friday said no fewer than 643 Nigerians voluntarily returned from Libya in the last five weeks.
The European Union on Tuesday said no fewer than 11,100 Nigerians, who were among irregular migrants in Libya, had so far returned to the country.
The UN says for the fifth straight year, 1,500 migrants perished in the Mediterranean, with the route between Libya and Italy being the deadliest.
The draw held on Wednesday put the Future Eagles in the same pool as Morocco, with whom the Nigerian boys were involved a two-match friendly fair in Marrakech in August 2017. Morocco won the first game 1-0 with the other match tied 1-1.
There have been talks about the involvement of foreigners in the numerous killings in the country, especially those suspected to have been carried out by herdsmen and Boko Haram insurgents
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says it has received a batch of 160 assisted voluntary returnees from Libya, who were stranded in failed attempts to reach different European countries.
The Planning Officer of NEMA, Segun Afolayan, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Friday that the returnees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, at 9.45p.m. on Thursday.
IOM said the tragic weekend began on Friday with two shipwrecks adding to the alarming increase in migrant deaths off Libya coast.
Abraham Tamrat, Programme Manager, Migration Management Unit, IOM, Lagos, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
“The Attorney-General’s office is preparing a list of former regime officials sentenced by the court to be released in the next few days due to their medical conditions,” a source of the Libyan Ministry of Justice told Xinhua.
Efe Alimi, an Edo State indigene, revealed how he had participated in the mass burial of 5,300 bodies in a single day on the Libyan shore, decomposing remains of those who had drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe
The oil-producing nation splintered following the 2011 NATO-backed revolt that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, and since 2014 has been divided between competing political and military groups based in Tripoli and the east.
Infantino expressed appreciation for the urgent desire of the Libyan people and government to host international matches
The Netherlands, backed by France, Germany, Britain and the US, asked the 15-member council’s Libya sanctions committee to impose a global asset freeze and travel ban on six people.
Naomi and other participants shared their experiences about reintegrating to life in Nigeria after being deported