Libyan coastguard has intercepted 156 migrants, including Nigerians, in two separate incidents as they tried to reach Europe by sea, the Navy said. Navy spokesman Ayoub Qasim said that Libyan coastguard stopped a rubber boat carrying 116 migrants, including five women, off the western Libyan town of Zuwara.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that many of them have to sleep at the airport from Wednesday for a day and two owing to what the management of the airline claimed as malfunctioning of their planes and lack of aviation fuel.
The President of Nigerian Union in South Africa, Adetola Olubajo, has called on the South African authorities to arrest and prosecute killers of Nigerians in that country.
Steve Ugbah, Nigerian ambassador to Russia, who made this known while addressing a news conference on Tuesday, said my foreign minister and I spoke yesterday.
Speaker of House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said that many Nigerians do not understand the functions of the parliament in carrying out its constitutional responsibilities.
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.
According to Buratai, if we celebrate insecurity, we will continue to live with insecurity.
The Super Eagles had earlier suffered a 2 – 0 painful defeat in the hands of Vatreni of Croatia in their first match in Group D on Saturday at Kaliningrad stadium.
Pontesilli who made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen in Abuja said the number was huge.
Their concern stemmed from the 0-2 defeat of Nigeria by Croatia on Saturday at the ongoing World Cup tournament in Russia.
Saraki gave the warning in his message to Nigerians on the 19th anniversary of unbroken elected government in the country signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu.
They made the call against the backdrop of the nation’s Democracy Day celebration.
While congratulating Nigerians on the 19th anniversary of unbroken elected government in the country, Saraki advised the people to always be vigilant and speak against anti-democratic policies and actions which are capable of subverting rule of law.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the latest killing brings the number of Nigerians killed in the former apartheid enclave since February, 2016 to 118.
The Europe Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesay in Bern, reports that the procedure is not common in many hospitals therefore parents patronise clinics – with cost ranging between 467.85 Euro (N200,000) and 1,169.62 Euro (N500, 000).
The party said this promising and patriotic medical practitioner had to pay the supreme price over avoidable exposure to Lassa fever because of the low premium the APC administration places on the lives of Nigerians and the health sector in particular.
Tambuwal gave the advice in a message issued by his spokesman, Malam Imam Imam, to commemorate Easter in Sokoto on Sunday.
Dr Garba Abari, the Director-General of NOA, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, described the sacrificial life and death of Christ as constant reminders of how humans ought to put others first before self.
The Nigerians were aboard a boat with 110 migrants
Oloko told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that some
other Nigerians were also arrested for engaging in drug trafficking and
other criminal offences that had led to their detention.