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A Nigerian police gunboat escorting an oil barge owned by Eni came under fire from a group of pirates lying in wait on the Barbara River near Nembe. All 3 police officers were killed before being stripped of their rifles, uniforms, and gunboat. The pirates then took the 6 man oil crew hostage before fleeing the scene in both boats. Nigeria: unknown
The 2023 Anambra ambush was a violent attack on a United States consular convoy in the town of Atani, [3] in Southeastern Nigeria. Several unidentified assailants opened fire on the convoy as it was traveling along a road, then setting the corpses of the dead and their vehicles on fire.
NNS Bomadi (P176) is an Ocea FPB 72 patrol boat operated by the Nigerian Navy. [1] [2] Design
The attack against the destroyers on Monday marks the latest Houthi attack on Navy warships off the coast of Yemen. In late September, US forces fended off a similarly complex missile and drone ...
NNS Aradu (F89) (meaning "thunder" in Hausa) is a Nigerian Navy frigate. She is the first of the MEKO 360 general purpose frigates built by the German company, Blohm + Voss. The 125.6-metre (412 ft 1 in) ship is the largest in the Nigerian Navy.
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.
LAGOS (Reuters) -Protests in Nigeria over the soaring cost of living ebbed on Monday, with only a few hundred people turning out in major cities following a deadly crackdown by security forces ...
On 8 July 2013 Ahmed Muse Salad, a/k/a "Afmagalo", 27, Abukar Osman Beyle, 33, and Shani Nurani Shiekh Abrar, 31–those who actually killed the 4 hostages–were found guilty of piracy, murder within the Special Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction of the United States, violence against maritime navigation, conspiracy to commit violence against maritime navigation resulting in death ...