Tag: Nigeria

A Nigerian shipowner denied reports indicating that six crew members died in an unexplained accident on a tanker off Lagos.

Six seafarers died during an unexplained accident on a tanker off Lagos, with Nigerian authorities confirming the incident during the weekend.

Nigeria opened a deep seaport in Lagos on January 23, aiming to ease congestion at the country’s ports and become an African hub for transshipment, handling cargoes in transit for other destinations.

On November 28, a Danish court found a Nigerian man guilty of endangering the lives of Danish soldiers in a shooting incident on November 2021, involving the Danish frigate Esbern Snare and a crew of alleged Nigerian pirates in the Gulf of Guinea.

Nigeria wants to prosecute Danish forces that were involved in the exchange of fire with alleged pirates in the Gulf of Guinea in November 2021. The African country also demands the release of a citizen that is being tried in Denmark after a fatal firefight.

After the ship MT Heroic Idun was arrested by authorities of Equatorial Guinea at the behest of Nigerian authorities for alleged theft of crude oil from Nigeria, the 26 crew members on board are reported to have experiencing an extremely stressful period. 

The Liberia Maritime Authority (LiMA) is trying to apprehend and prosecute the captain and crewmembers of a Panamanian-flagged cargo vessel, that allegedly threw 14 stowaways overboard.

A group of Nigerian stowaways claim the crew of the bulker Ophelia killed two of them, and then abandoned the rest.

There are fresh indications that the IMO is set to prevail on twenty five countries in West and Central Africa on the need to adopt the Suppression of Piracy and Other Maritime Offences (SPOMO) Act, Dryad Global says. 

A VLCC got into a dispute with the Nigerian authorities and was ultimately chased down and detained by Equatorial Guinea.