Gunmen, suspected to be pirates, in the early hours of Sunday, attacked two oil installations, killing three and abducting seven oil workers in Bayelsa State, Nigeria’s South-south. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the pirates ambushed their unsuspecting victims in Okoroma and Ogbokiri-Akassa communities of Nembe and Brass local government areas of Bayelsa. Sources […]
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12 of the 19 crew members of a ship have been kidnapped from a Swiss merchant vessel off the coast of Nigeria. Sky TV reports that the ship, MV Glarus was carrying wheat between Lagos and the southern Niger Delta oil hub of Port Harcourt. It was boarded by pirates when it was around 45 […]
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Suspected Sea Pirates have killed two persons and injured three others in Ayama community, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa. The pirates, according to a witness, invaded the community on Monday at about 9 p.m. and shot sporadically into the crowd of indigenes. Confirming the development, the Spokesman of the Police Command in the state, […]
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Russia says seven of its sailors and one Ukrainian have been abducted on Nigeria’s territorial waters. The Russian embassy in Nigeria has asked the Nigerian authorities for assistance in locating the abducted sailors. “The BBC Caribbean ship came under a piratic attack in the territorial waters of Nigeria,” the embassy said on Wednesday via its […]
Continue ReadingCommodore Christian Odogwu Ezekobe, Director of Information, Nigerian Navy, has disclosed that its Navy ship NWAMBA was able to rescure a merchant taker vessel from pirates some 20 nautical miles offshore of Bonny.Read full Statememnt The Nigerian Navy Ship NWAMBA has rescued a merchant Tanker vessel with call sign MT VECTIS OSPREY from sea pirates […]
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