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MEPN tasks Nigerian government on consular support for irregular migrants
Press Statement: November 2018 The Migration Enlightenment Project Nigeria (MEPN) calls on the Federal Government to significantly increase consular support to Nigerian irregular migrants in the transit and destination countries. Migrants stranded, especially in transit, are left totally to the mercy of the very traffickers who took them to their precarious situation. According to international […]
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200,000 youths to benefit from FG’s vocational training programmes —NDE
The National Directorate of Employment on Thursday (15 November) said that over 200,000 unemployed youths would benefit from its various training and empowerment programmes across the country. The NDE Director-General, Dr. Nasiru Argungu, disclosed this in Gusau at the opening ceremony of the orientation programme for new intakes to NDE programmes. Argungu, represented by the […]
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TRAIN TO BECOME A FARMER! Apply Now, It’s FREE
Application for Admission to a One year Agricultural Training Programme for 2018/2019 Session *FREE OF ALL COSTS* Application deadline: 30th November, 2018 Screening/Examination: Saturday 1st December, 2018 The Leventis Foundation (Nigeria) is a charitable company dedicated to the training of farmers in modern and sustainable agricultural practices and rational use of natural resources. The Foundation […]
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Demand the release of Nigerian detainees in Libya – MEPN tasks federal government
[av_heading heading=’Demand the release of Nigerian detainees in Libya – MEPN tasks federal government ‘ tag=’h3′ style=” size=” subheading_active=” subheading_size=’15’ padding=’10’ color=” custom_font=”][/av_heading] [av_textblock size=’14’ font_color=” color=”] A new batch of 161 Nigerian migrant returnees arrived Lagos on Friday, 12 October 2018 under the EU-IOM joint Initiative on Migrant Protection and Reintegration. According to the […]
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10,000 Nigerians repatriated from Libya – NEMA
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has announced that no fewer than 10,000 Nigerians, have voluntarily returned from Libya between April 2017 and October 2018. The South West Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, Yakubu Suleiman, made this disclosure while receiving a new batch of 161 returnees, who arrived Lagos on Friday (12 October). Suleiman said the […]
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1,741 migrant deaths in the Mediterranean so far in 2018, says UN agency
The Organization for Migration (IOM) has released new statistics on migrant crossings to Europe via the Atlantic Ocean. So far, 1,741 people have died trying to make it to Europe through the Mediterranean. The UN agency said that a total of 82,100 migrants and refugees have reached Europe by sea in 2018 as of September […]
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Nigerian migrants rescued from Libyan prison after cell video goes viral
A group of Nigerian migrants held captive inside a detention centre in Libya have been rescued after releasing a video taken on their phones. The footage went viral on social media and caught the attention of the authorities. Sertan Sanderson of InfoMigrants reports. The migrants held in Zawiya in Libya reportedly risked their lives to […]
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MEPN boss charges media practitioners over illegal migration
https://www.tribuneonlineng.com/166195/
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Focus more on migration, MEPN urges journalists
http://thenationonlineng.net/focus-more-on-migration-mepn-urges-journalists/
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MEPN visits the Lagos Command of NAPTIP
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] [/av_textblock] [av_heading tag=’h2′ padding=’10’ heading=’MEPN visits the Lagos Command of NAPTIP’ color=’custom-color-heading’ style=” custom_font=’#b02b2c’ size=” subheading_active=” subheading_size=’15’ custom_class=”][/av_heading] [av_textblock size=’20’ font_color=” color=”] The Migration Enlightenment Project Nigeria (MEPN) paid a familiarisation visit to the Lagos Command of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), an agency set […]