Four Nigerian stowaways have survived a two-week voyage across the Atlantic perched perilously on the rudder of a cargo ship. The men ... underlines the risks some migrants are prepared to take ...
As the ship floated across the Atlantic, the men rigged up a net around the rudder and ... to be returned to Nigeria. The men are not alone. In 2021, 123,300 refugees and migrants crossed the ...
This is the shocking moment four Nigerian migrants were discovered on top of a ship’s rudder that they had been living on for 14 days. The men defied death by drinking sea water when they ran ...
The desperation by Nigerians to escape poverty and hardship that have defined their present state, and to seek greener ...
The Nigerian Navy (NN) said on Wednesday that it has arrested a total of 75 stowaways who attempted to travel out of the country through criminal and unconventional ways of hiding under the rudder of ...
He explained that according to the Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic (FAL Convention), a stowaway ...
The Nigerian Navy (NN) has expressed concern over the upsurge in cases of stowaways in the Lagos waters. In a statement ...
Mrs Kemi Nandap, the Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, says no space will be given to criminal minded migrants in the country. Nandap gave the assurance in a statement by the ...
The Nigerian Navy (NN) has raised the alarm over the escalating issue of stowaways in Lagos waters, with a staggering 75 individuals arrested on merchant ships from August 2023 to April 2024.
The Federal Government has evacuated no fewer than 138 Nigerian irregular migrants stranded in Libya. A statement by Amb Kabiru Musa, Chargé D’Affaires En Titre of the Nigerian Mission in Libya ...
This is the moment Brazilian federal police rescued four Nigerian migrants, who'd spent 14 days at sea on a ship's rudder. The migrants had hoped to reach Europe from Nigeria but were shocked to ...