By Tunde Odesola Ahoy! Off to Treasure Island, I set sail. The sea is turbulent, the wind is violent; but go I must on this dangerous odyssey to Pirates’ underworld, where good and evil fruits grow on the same tree, where virtue and vice sleep in the same bed, where life is short and brutish … Read more
Five Passengers have been killed by suspected pirates EKO HOT BLOG reports that no fewer than five passengers were killed along the waterways by suspected Sea pirates on Friday morning while traveling from Bille community in Degema local government area of Rivers State, to Port Harcourt, the state capital. EDITOR’S PICK JUST IN: A’Court Reinstates … Read more
Denmark releases suspected Nigerian pirates EKO HOT BLOG reports that three accused pirates who were imprisoned aboard a Danish military vessel following a deadly confrontation with the Danish navy off the coast of West Africa have been released after the government opted not to extradite them to Denmark to face attempted murder charges. “We have … Read more
The Police Command in Akwa Ibom said its officers killed four suspected pirates who specialised in terrorising fishermen in Ibeno waterways in the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Macdon Odiko, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibeno Local Government Area of the state on Friday. … Read more
Suspected pirates have attacked two passenger boats along the coastal waters of Aru-Gbanaama and Polokiri in Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State, leaving two dead and three others missing. Ekohotblog gathered the passengers were returning from a carnival in Dema Okekpe community to Bonny main town in the evening when the hoodlums intercepted the … Read more
Pirates The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Saturday confirmed that six of its nationals were among the crew members abducted off the coast of Nigeria, from a Cameroon-flagged STEVIA cargo ship. Foreign Ministry spokesman, Oleg Nikolenko, as quoted by the Ukrinform news agency, said the pirates had attacked the vessel in the Gulf of Guinea, Africa’s … Read more