Foreign

‘Surprise’ in Canada as NYC buses migrants to border

Ihesiulo Grace 8 February 2023 0

BY BENJAMIN OMOIKE An immigration official in the Canadian province of Quebec has said it is “surprising” to learn that New York City is sending migrants to the country’s border. New York City mayor Eric Adams told Fox 5 that his administration was assisting migrants who had

Foreign World

Hundreds of migrants stranded in Belarus, hoping to reach Germany

Ihesiulo Grace 13 December 2021 0

Hundreds of the migrants stranded on the border of Belarus and Poland in plummeting temperatures are hoping to travel onwards to Germany. A 25-year-old Iraqi Gashtjar told dpa at a logistics centre in Brusgi which is currently functioning as an emergency shelter on Monday that “there are still 900 to 1,000 of us, including many […]

News

How 3 Nigerian migrants died after jumping from 10-storey building to escape fire in France

Ihesiulo Grace 21 July 2021 0

The lives of three Nigerian migrants were cut short after they jumped out of the windows of a building to escape a fire in the southern French city of Marseille. The incident happened shortly after 5 a.m on Saturday, July 17, when a fire broke out of the building in the housing estate “Les Flamants” […]

Foreign

Malaysia rounding up migrants to contain coronavirus spread, police say

Ihesiulo Grace 2 May 2020 0

Malaysian authorities are rounding up undocumented migrants as part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus, the country’s police chief said late on Friday, after hundreds of migrants and refugees were detained in the capital Kuala Lumpur. Over 700 migrants were taken into custody, including young children and ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, during […]

Foreign

Tear gas fills air as migrants mass at Greece-Turkey border

Ihesiulo Grace 4 March 2020 0

Greek border police fired tear gas Wednesday morning at hundreds of migrants trying to enter from Turkey, while Athens authorities were moving on their plan to rapidly deport people still arriving on the Aegean islands. TV reports showed police shooting tear gas canisters across the border fence, a regular occurrence since Turkey stopped blocking migrants […]

News Nigeria

FG receives 165 irregular migrants from Libya

Ihesiulo Grace 1 September 2018 0

The federal government has received a group of 165 irregular migrants from Libya, bringing the total number of Nigerian irregular migrants repatriated so far to 3801. The migrants arrived Lagos via the Murtala Muhammed international airport, on Thursday and were received by the Nigerian delegation along side international partners. Among them were the 109 Nigerians […]

News

Stay in your country, Buhari tells migrants

Ihesiulo Grace 10 January 2018 0

President Muhammadu Buhari has urged illegal migrants to stay back home and find ways to improve their personal economies rather than daring the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea, with scores of lives lost in the process. Buhari gave the advice on Tuesday while receiving Hon. Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs, who came […]

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Libya: 64 migrants feared dead in Mediterranean boat sinking, UN says

Ihesiulo Grace 9 January 2018 0

No fewer than 64 migrants, including a mother whose 3-year-old child desperately clung to her, are feared dead after a traffickers’ overcrowded rubber dinghy from Libya started sinking in the Mediterranean Sea, officials said Monday. The Italian coast guard rescued 86 people from the boat hours after it started sinking Saturday morning due to a […]

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Int’l Migrants Day: Obaseki tasks world leaders on rights of legal migrants

Ihesiulo Grace 18 December 2017 0

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has called on world leaders to respect and protect the rights of legal migrants, as the frequent movement of people to deploy their skills and expertise across the globe has become inevitable in a fast globalising, highly interconnected world. Obaseki said this on the occasion of the […]

Africa News

Over 3,000 Migrants Died in Mediterranean this Year – IOM

Ihesiulo Grace 28 November 2017 0

More than 3,000 migrants and refugees have died crossing the Mediterranean in a desperate bid to reach Europe’s shores since the start of the year, the International Organization for Migration said Tuesday. The figure so far represents a 40 percent drop compared to last year’s record of 5,000 known or suspected drownings. “That mark (was) […]

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COCIN urges FG to curb illegal migration of unknown persons

Ihesiulo Grace 20 November 2017 0

The Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN), at the weekend called on the federal government to put an end to the said illegal migration of unknown persons into the country. The President of COCIN, Rev. Dachollom Datiri made the call in a communique issued at the end of its 93rd General Church Council 2017 held […]

Africa World

About 500 migrants rescued by Libyan coastguard off Tripoli

Ihesiulo Grace 29 August 2017 0

On Tuesday at sea west of the capital Tripoli, Libya’s coastguard rescued nearly 500 migrants a spokesman said, underlining the challenge of trying to slow an exodus from Africa and the Middle East. The migrants included people from sub-Saharan countries, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. “Coastguards rescued early morning today 140 illegal migrants west of Tripoli […]

Africa

Libya Rejects EU Military Plans over Mediterranean Migrants

Ihesiulo Grace 12 May 2015 0

Libya has criticised EU proposals to authorise the use of force against people smugglers taking migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe. The Libyan ambassador to the UN told the BBC that the EU’s intentions were unclear and “very worrying”. The EU is seeking a UN mandate to allow military action to destroy or halt smugglers’ […]

News

Funerals Hold for Victims of Capsized Mediterranean Boat

Ihesiulo Grace 23 April 2015 0

Funerals for the victims of the capsized migrant boat in the Mediterranean have been held in Malta, BBC reports. An estimated 800 people died in Sunday’s disaster. Italian police say the captain crashed the boat by mistake against a merchant rescue ship. The number of deaths in such incidents has now reached 1,750 so far […]

Editorial

Ending the Mediterranean Boat Tragedy

Ihesiulo Grace 22 April 2015 0

No day passes now without the sad news of African migrants drowning in the Mediterranean while trying to cross to Europe in search of elusive fortunes. The growing number of young people risking their lives sailing on unseaworthy vessels to Europe is one of the most harrowing recent tragedies of Africa. Definitely, the scale of […]

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Capsized Mediterranean Migrants' Boat's Captain Charged

Ihesiulo Grace 21 April 2015 0

The Tunisian captain of a boat that capsized off Libya on Sunday, killing hundreds of migrants, has been charged with reckless multiple homicide, Italian officials say. He has also been charged along with a member of the crew with favouring illegal immigration, BBC reports. The two were among 27 survivors who arrived in Sicily late […]