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Suicide bombers suspected of being from the Islamic State group stormed the headquarters of Libya’s National Oil Company on Monday and killed at least two people, officials said. An oil company official, who asked not to be named... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper – Nigeria and...

A Local Official on Thursday said that four people were killed in a gun attack by suspected militants on a checkpoint east of the Libyan capital Tripoli. Zliten mayor, Miftah Hamadi said, the attack took... Read more via Punch Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2NbQ2c6 Get More Nigeria Metro News

A rescue ship carrying migrants sails off the Libyan coast during a rescue mission in the Mediterranean … Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/2Aciw3C Get more World News

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Rebecca Ejifoma The National Emergency and Management Agency (NEMA) has received a fresh batch of 155 stranded Nigerian returnees trapped in Libya in their futile attempt to cross over to Europe for greener pastures. The returnees comprised 41 female adults (five pregnant women, one female...

More than 200 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean from January to June, bringing the overall death toll so far this year to more than 1,000, the International Organisation... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2tLWnDy Get More Nigeria Metro News

Clashes between rival groups in Libya's key oil export ports have caused output to drop by nearly half, the head of the National Oil Company said on Wednesday. "Production has seen a reduction... Read more via ModernGhana News – https://ift.tt/2JTMspK Get more World News

Libya’s coastguards said that they had rescued 191 migrants and recovered the bodies of five others off the coast to the west of the capital Tripoli. In one incident, 115 people, including 22 women and two children, were picked up and five bodies were … Read more via IOL section Feed for...

I left Nigeria rich, returned miserable –Libya returnee Alexander Okere, Benin A returnee, who was recently evacuated from Libya by the International Organisation for Migration, has appealed to the Edo State Government for assistance to enable him start his life afresh. The returnee, who gave...

A baby boy named Miracle has been born on board the Aquarius, a humanitarian ship, as the tide of migrants risking sea crossings from Libya to Italy has increased as the weather has improved. There have been more than … Read more via The Sun Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2LywX3A Get More...

A batch of 218 Nigerians, which included seven pregnant women, on Tuesday voluntarily returned from the volatile North African country of Libya where they had been stranded enroute Europe. Read more via nigeria – Google News – https://ift.tt/2ruK7VU Get More Nigeria Metro News

Saif Gaddafi, the second son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, is in a secure spot in Libya and will soon address the people in a televised speech, his lawyer said on Monday 19, 2018. Read more via The Trent – http://ift.tt/2GNFZYp Get more World News

A man lies on his stomach on a patterned floor, writhing. Over him stands a masked figure, pointing a gun at his victim’s head as another dangles a rod over his body. He shrieks and wails as an orange molten liquid is dripped onto his back. El Sadiq Abaker Ahmed, 22, tries … Continue...

Libyan forces have arrested gang members suspected of torturing Nigerians and other African migrants. They are reported to have been arrested near Tripoli after torture video surfaced on Social media. Details later but Nigerians who returned from Libya have narrated their harrowing experience...

The Yobe State Government on Saturday reunited additional 216 persons deported from Libya with their families in the state. Ahmed Goniri, the state Commissioner for Justice and Chairman of Repatriation Committee, said this while handing over the deportees to their respective local council...

LIBYA: Edo leads list of returnees •NEMA laments slow response of states to evacuation By Egufe Yafugborhi and Davies Iheamnachor NEMA has expressed displeasure over the reluctance of some state governments to evacuate their returnees from the reception centre in Port Harcourt. Libya returnees …...

The third batch of 560 Nigerian returnees from Libya have arrived Port Harcourt, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2mtYfMN Get More Nigeria Metro News

By Chioma Onuegbu The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, has arrested two suspected traffickers among Nigerian repatriated from Libya. The Director-General of NAPTIP, Ms Julie Okah-Donli, who disclosed this yesterday in Abuja, said the two suspects were...

Chairman, Senate Committee on Police Affairs, Senator Abu Ibrahim, yesterday urged the Federal Government to investigate if fleeing remnants of Boko Haram insurgents and displaced soldiers from Libya were involved in the Benue State killings. Ibrahim who represents Katsina South Senatorial...

The Director general, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) Dame Julie Okah –Donli has said 972 of the 5000 Nigerians located in different detention camps in Libya have already returned. LEADERSHIP recalls that a Special Federal Government delegation last week...