Filipino among 7 foreigners kidnapped in Nigeria
A shadow Islamic extremist group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of seven foreign workers in northern Nigeria.
A shadow Islamic extremist group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of seven foreign workers in northern Nigeria.
The owners and managers of a ship attacked by pirates off the Nigerian coast on February 4 have assured the family of a Filipino seaman killed in the failed hijack attempt of support and guaranteed the safety of eight other Filipinos who suffered no harm in the incident.
A Filipino seafarer was killed when an unidentified group of pirates hijacked a chemical tanker off the coast of Nigeria on Feb. 4, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday.
The government has lifted the ban on the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Nigeria, Libya and South Sudan.
Three sailors abducted when their cargo ship was attacked by pirates off the Nigerian coast this week are “in good health”, an armed militant group said Friday.
Armed pirates opened fire on a cargo ship in an attack off the Nigerian coast, kidnapping the captain and chief engineer and robbing the crew before escaping, a maritime watchdog said Wednesday.
The recent spate of bombings in Nigeria has prompted the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to hold in abeyance its recommendation to lift the deployment ban on overseas Filipino workers (OFW) to that African country.
MANILA, Philippines–The Philippines said Thursday it would extend a ban on sending workers to Nigeria after Christmas Day bombings in the oil-rich African country left 40 people dead. The two-year-old ban was to have been lifted by January 1 to allow the movement of thousands of Filipinos seeking to work in Nigeria’s booming energy sector. [...]
A piracy watchdog said sailors and an oil tanker seized by pirates off Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta have been released.
The operator of an oil tanker hijacked off the coast of Nigeria last weekend has had no contact with the more than 20 crew since the capture, an official of the company said on Friday.
Pirates off Nigeria’s coast seized a chemical tanker and kidnapped the vessel’s crew, a watchdog group said Tuesday, the latest attack to target shipping in West African waters.
Former ambassador to Nigeria Masaranga Umpa has challenged the filing of malversation charges against him for the alleged misuse of funds for overseas Filipino workers, saying that the case was politically motivated and that he had been too busy attending to the issue of kidnapped Filipinos to disburse funds.
