Tag: Libya
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Returnee rejects Gov Obaseki’s N20k stipend, says he makes double of that daily in Libya
A 27-year old Libyan deportee, Obehi Diamond, has rejected thd offer of N20,000 as monthly stipend from Governor of Edo state,Godwin Obaseki. Obehi described Libya as the best country where a young man can work and earn good money if there was a central government in the country. The aluminum fabricator, narrating his ordeal in…
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Security Council condemns Libya’s African slave trade
The UN Security Council on Thursday condemned the slave trade of African migrants in Libya as “heinous human rights abuses which may also amount to crimes against humanity,” and called on those responsible to be held to account. In a statement read out to a formal meeting by Amb. Koro Bessho of Japan, Council President…
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Many Nigerians in Libya don’t want to return-FG
A number of Nigerians in Libya do not want to return home, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama has disclosed. The minister stated this on Wednesday while addressing State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting. Onyeama said the Nigeria’s Charge D’Affairs in Tripoli had been invited to Abuja to give full details…
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More Nigerians return from Libya
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, on Tuesday joined officials of some government agencies as they received a fresh set of Nigerians flown home from Libya. TheNewsGuru reports that no fewer than 144 Nigerians voluntarily returned home aboard a chartered Buraq Airlines aircraft with registration number 5A-DMG.…
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FG identifies 2,778 Nigerians in detention camps in Libya, moves to repatriate 250 weekly
The Federal Government says it has a record of 2,778 Nigerian migrants registered in “accessible” detention camps in Libya, ready for repatriation. The Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement signed by the Spokesperson Mr Tiwatope Elias-Fatiile on Tuesday, said the country’s embassy in Libya had been visiting detention camps to identify Nigerians for…
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Charly Boy leads protest against Libyan slavery
Veteran musician and activist, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy has led a protest against reported slave auction in Libya. Charley Boy on Monday, December 4 led the protest to the Foreign Affairs Head Office in Abuja with his hands chained. The group of protesters called Our Mumu Don Do Movement was led by…
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Jonathan’s ex-aide, Omokri urges Churches to help repatriate Nigerians stranded in Libya
Former Presidential Media aide Reno Omokri has called on churches in Nigeria to come to the aid of Libya returnees. In a Tweet on Saturday, the US based pastor said Christianity is not only spread by acts of evangelism. Omokri said: “Imagine the impact on Christianity if churches come to the aid of Libya returnees…
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Slave Trade, Human Trafficking: AU, EU must collaborate to tackle menace in Libya – Onyeama
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama has called for a joint declaration by the African Union and European Union on the issue of slave trade and other crimes against humanity in Libya. Onyeama who made the call at the Ministerial meeting of the just concluded 5th African Union- European Union Summit in Abidjan, Cote…
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Over 400,000 Nigerians, other nationals still stranded in Libya – AU Commission
The Head of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has said that over 400,000 Nigerians and others remain stranded in Libya. Hundreds of thousands more — “400,000 to 700, 000,” according to Mahamat — remain stranded. European and African leaders have set themselves a tall order to stamp out horrific abuse of African migrants,…
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How we were abducted, sold into slavery by fellow Nigerians in Libya – Returnees
Some fresh returnees from Libya have recounted their ordeals in the hands of fellow Nigerians who facilitated their sale to slavery in the troubled country. TheNewsGuru.com reports that over 1,295 Nigerians were repatriated International Organisation for Migration in conjunction with the European Union in November alone. Since the beginning of 2017, IOM-facilitated repatriation has brought…