The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Wednesday said that 191 Nigerian migrants were voluntarily deported from Libya to their country. “IOM facilitated the voluntary humanitarian return of 191 migrants, including 111 women, from Sebha (southern Libya) to Lagos, Nigeria,” IOM said in a statement. “This return andContinue Reading
Simon Onyema, a 32-year-old Nigerian, rose in frustration from a wooden bench outside a betting shop in Lugbe, a low-income suburb in Abuja, the country’s capital, as he compared his printed football match predictions with the actual results on a large television screen one Saturday evening in March. ForContinue Reading
Libya on Tuesday deported 177 Nigerian migrants, mostly women, as part of a voluntary repatriation program, the country’s Illegal Migration Control Department said. “Today, from the Deportation Office of the Illegal Migration Control Department, we voluntarily deported 177 female and some child migrants of Nigerian nationality viaContinue Reading
Amid an erratic power supply, electricity consumers across Nigeria have continued to lament the tariff hike, describing it as both “exploitative and a threat to the growth of local businesses.” Last month, the Nigerian government said some citizens might need to pay more than 65 percent of whatContinue Reading
