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The Comoros-flagged cargo ship Reefer Solarte was hijacked on the evening of October 19, 2015 by a group of armed pirates off the coast of Port Harcourt. The armed pirates attacked the vessel, boarded the ship without much resistance, and proceeded to ransack the ship for whatever valuables they could get their hands on.
The ship thwarted the attack by increasing its speed and performing evasive maneuvers. [ 119 ] April 25, 2013: A Liberian-flagged container ship, Hansa Marburg (owned by Hamburg-based shipping firm Leonhardt and Blumberg), was hijacked 240 km (130 nmi) off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, with four crew members on board.
List of ships attacked by Nigerian pirates; P. ... Piracy networks in Nigeria This page was last edited on 14 August 2020, at 17:46 (UTC). ...
The image of three migrant men discovered balancing on the rudder of a ship for 11 days across the ocean from Nigeria to the Canary Islands has left people in shock.
Ose and her sister ships are Ocea FPB 72 vessels, just 24 metres (79 ft) long, with a range of 600 nautical miles (1,100 km), sufficient for short missions, within Nigeria's Exclusive Economic Zone. [1] [2] She carries a crew of twelve, and can proceed at up to 35 knots (65 km/h).
Five Baga residents said fighters from Islamic State West Africa Province(ISWAP), a Boko Haram offshoot, attacked the community on May 27, killing 15 people and abducting many more.
The Spanish coastguard rescued two Nigerian migrants who stowed away on the rudder of a ship that arrived in the Canary Islands from Togo, a coastguard spokesperson and the police said on Tuesday.
On 14 August, Nigeria officially withdrew from Bakassi, with 50 people having been killed in the previous year. [31] In October 2008 a militant group known as the Bakassi Freedom Fighters (BFF) boarded a ship and took its crew hostage, threatening to execute them unless the Cameroon government agreed to negotiate on Bakassian independence. [ 35 ]