The Navy Director of Information, Commodore Suleman Dahun, who made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said Justice Ishaq Sani gave the judgement on Monday.
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The Director-General of the Agency, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, stated this in Lagos during the official handover of pirates arrested by the Nigerian Navy for prosecution.
The Nigerian Navy has said it rescued 18 crew members on board a Chinese vessel, MV HAILUFANG II, from pirates’ attack.
The suspects include Frances Onyeama, Adebayo M. Charles, Melvin A. Jack, Omogoye Wasiu Bolaji, Umoren Harrison Daniel, Oloyede Y. Ademola, Arichibong Aniete James, Richard Essien David, Oke Asaki and Mike Simon.
Six Russian Sailors have been abducted by pirates off the coast of Benin, the Russian Embassy in the West African nation said on Saturday.
The attack was confirmed by IMB Piracy Reporting Centre
The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, said this at the launch of the special operation, code-named: “Tsare Teku V,” on Wednesday in Onne, Rivers State
The soldiers were part of a team dispatched in response to a distress call on an attack by pirates operating in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Major Abubakar Abdulahi, the Spokesman for JTF, confirmed
The sailors were released after talks between the owners of the ship and pirates
The Russian embassy has asked the Nigerian authorities for assistance in establishing the whereabouts of the abducted crew
Fehmi Ulgener, lawyer for the shipping firm, said on Wednesday that the crews have safely returned back to Istanbul
He said that the soldier, whose name was not mentioned, was kidnapped by pirates on March 24 along the Nembe waterways.
The spokesman added that the soldier was currently receiving medical treatment in Nembe while efforts are underway to arrest the fleeing abductors
A director in the commission, Augustine Amodu, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu on Sunday that Ezeodili of 32, Ozobu Street, Idaw River, Enugu specialises in illegal transmission of the signals to the neighbourhood to earn a living
Pirates boarded the vessel as it travelled from Belgium to Nigeria, according to Polish media reports
The spokesman of the Bayelsa Police Command, Alex Akhigbe, also confirmed the incident, adding that details of the incident were not immediately available
The Report, signed by Guy Platten, the Chief Executive of the chamber, said that over the past 10 years, 45 seafarers had been killed and 459 held hostage in the Gulf of Guinea region
Lieutenant Colonel Mustapha Anka, the JTF Media Coordinator, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Yenagoa that some 30 pirates, armed with AK-47 riffles in two speedboats, attacked the JTF patrol troop
This was contained in a statement issued by the Nigerian Navy Ship, Pathfinder, Base Information Officer, Lt.-Cdr. Abdulsalam Sani, on Sunday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital
The operators and traders told the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Oron that attacks on boats and vessels have been the major challenge in their business
The Director of Naval Information, Commodore Kabiru Aliyu, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital