Tag Archives: Libya

The Federal Government has repatriated 158 irregular Nigerian migrants from Libya.   Nigeria’s Charge’ d’ Affaires to Libya, Amb. Mohammed Mohammed, made this known in a statement on Wednesday, July 24, 2024.   Mohammed said that the group of evacuees comprised 77 males, 45 females, 26 children as well as …

Two Nigerian migrants have been arrested for assaulting a fellow Nigerian and throwing him to his d@ath from the roof of a building in Libya.    According to Migrant Rescue Watch, police arrested the suspects in Brak, a town in the Wadi al Shatii District in west-central Libya on Monday, …

Police in Sabha, southwestern Libya have arrested a Nigerian national for the alleged murder of a migrant worker.    It was gathered that the suspect allegedly stabbed the deceased with a weapon during an altercation on Monday, July 1, 2024.    According to Migrant Rescue Watch, the accused confessed to …

At least 122 stranded Nigerians have been evacuated from Libya.   The recent evacuees comprise 52 males, 39 females, seven of whom were rescued victims of human trafficking, 21 children, and 10 infants.   This brings the total number of stranded Nigerians in Libya who have been assisted to return …

A 44-year-old man, Mohammed Usman, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for trafficking two persons from Kano to Libya.   The convict was prosecuted by the National Agency For the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).   NAPTIP in a statement on Thursday, May 16, 2024, said Usman was …

A Nigerian man, Jude Ezeh, has slammed his fellow Nigerians for discouraging others from coming to Libya.    “Good day Nigerians in Libya, why is that when person talk about coming to Libya some of you will be discouraging the person? Is that not wickedness to it peak, you are …

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, International Organisation for Migration’s Libya office quotes survivors as saying the boat was carrying around 86 people. At least 61 migrants, including women and children, have drowned following a “tragic” shipwreck off Libya, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says. The organisation’s Libya office early on Sunday …

Kabiru Musa, the Charge d’Affaires En Titre of the Nigerian Mission in Libya, revealed this significant development in a statement issued to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja. Among the repatriated individuals, 159 were Nigerians who had been released from detention facilities across various locations in …

A Nigerian man has been arrested in Libya for alleged murder of his newborn baby.   Migrant Rescue Watch disclosed this in a post on Wednesday, November 8, 2023.   According to the post, the suspect allegedly killed the baby with chlorine and buried the body in a shallow grave …

Men of the Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) have arrested two suspected members of a child trafficking syndicate for their luring young girls to Libya allegedly for prostitution.    The two suspects, Babatunde Oluwasola, a.k.a ‘Osanle and Fowowe Dada, were arrested following a …