Tag: IOM

75 stranded Nigerian migrants, others rescued in Sahara desert

Ishaku Yohanna

Seventy-five Nigerian migrants, 41 of them women, including twin four-year-old girls, as well as four Togolese, three Ghanaians, and a Malian, were saved last week after their smugglers abandoned them in the Sahara desert in northern Niger, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday. A team from the IOM and Niger’s Civil Protection service found the group of eighty-three 230 kilometers (140 miles) from the crossroads town of Dirkou on September 3, the agency said. They had left the Nigerien town of Agadez, the main stepping-off point for…

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Social media pushing more Nigerians into migration than insecurity, poverty – IOM

Ishaku Yohanna

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Sunday that social media is a major tool influencing young Nigerians to want to migrate to foreign countries in search of greener pastures. Speaking in a virtual interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on the impact of insecurity on migration, Mr Franz Celestin, IOM Chief of Mission, said that social media has influenced many more migrations than insecurity. With specific reference to the number of Nigerian returnees from Libya, he said that the Southern states which accounted for the highest…

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