Tag: piracy
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My Battle With Pirates —Kunle Afolayan
On Monday, 13 April, multiple award-winning filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan received a text message informing him that his $2million runaway successful…
PIRACY: Close Alaba Market, Nollywood Actors Tell Fashola
Funsho Arogundade Nollywood actors and filmmakers have demanded that the popular Alaba market in Lagos notoriously known as the hub of…
Kunle Afolayan: I’m Not Being Tribalistic, Was Just Bitter
Funsho Arogundade In the morning of Monday, 6 April, award-winning filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan took to his Twitter account to voice…
Save Me From Pirates: AY Cries Out To IGP
Funsho Arogundade Top comedian turned movie producer, Ayo ‘AY’ Makun has cried out to Suleiman Abba, Nigeria’s Inspector General of…
Obesere Meets Joanthan Over Piracy
Bolatito Adebola Fuji music star, Alhaji Abass Akande Obesere, has met with President Goodluck Jonathan to discuss on the vexing…
Lagos Pirates Feast On Half Of A Yellow Sun Movie
Funsho Arogundade Pirates in Lagos, western Nigeria, have started feasting on multi-million dollar Half of A Yellow Sun, a film…
My 18-day ordeal with Nigerian pirates by US ship captain
.An American ship captain Wren Thomas said he is still haunted by his experience when under 18-day captivity by Nigeria’s…
Pirates kidnap 2 foreigners in fresh strike off Nigeria
Pirates have attacked an oil products tanker off the coast of Nigeria and kidnapped its Ukrainian captain and a Greek…
2 kidnapped American sailors freed in Nigeria
The United States has announced the release of two Americans kidnapped by pirates off southern Nigeria in October. “We welcome…
Piracy As A Real Killer
Kayode Odumosu, otherwise known as Pa Kasumu is one of Nigeria’s very popular Yoruba movie actors who is currently facing…
Nigerian pirates kidnap 2 US sailors
Armed pirates have attacked an oil supply vessel off the Nigerian coast and kidnapped the captain and chief engineer, both…
Piracy: Music Marketer Sent To Jail
A popular music marketer, Prince Ahmed Adedigba Adepoju, owner of Galaxy Music Company based in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, was yesterday…
Satellite Broadcast Pirate arrested in Kano.
Ayo Oluokun/Abuja Operatives of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a man in Kano, northern Nigeria, over…
Piracy Halts Film Business In Idumota
The activities of criminals who pirate Yoruba films in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, have compelled film marketers in the popular Idumota…
Report: West Africa now world’s piracy capital
West Africa has overtaken Somalia as the world’s piracy hot-spot with 966 sailors attacked last year, a report by the…
Nigeria: Pirates kidnap Russian, 3 Sri Lankans
Pirates stormed a cargo ship off Nigeria’s oil-producing southern coast, kidnapping five foreign sailors and stealing cash, a watchdog and…
Police IG posts AIGs, creates new anti-piracy command
Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar has posted seven assistant inspectors-general to various police commands in the country. The…
Entertainment, Interview, News
Piracy Does Not Affect Me
Popular singer and music producer, Gabriel Oche-Amanyi, better known as Terry G, tells BAYO ADETU about his life, career and…
2 Nigerian soldiers killed in an ambush
Suspected pirates attacked an Indian-owned oil barge Tuesday, killing two soldiers and wounding two civilians in an ambush in Nigeria’s…
Pirates Release Seized German Ship
Pirates released a German-owned tanker off Togo on Friday, a day after capturing it, the International Maritime Bureau said as…
Nigeria’s Navy retakes hijacked oil vessel
Nigeria’s navy on Wednesday retook control of a Singapore-owned tanker carrying a fuel cargo that had been hijacked near Lagos,…
Pirates strike again in Nigerian waters, hijack oil tanker
Pirates have hijacked a Singapore-owned oil tanker in Nigerian waters, the third attack in just over two weeks in the…
Togo pirates free tanker after theft of 3.8m litres of oil
Pirates in Togo have released a tanker with 24 Russian crew on board after siphoning off 3,000 tonnes, about 3.8million…
Hijacked tanker spotted in Nigerian waters
A tanker hijacked off Togolese waters with 24 Russian crew on board was spotted near Nigeria on Wednesday, officials said,…
Cameroonian prince, companion kidnapped in Bakassi
Pirates have kidnapped a Cameroonian traditional prince and his companion on the country’s volatile Bakassi peninsula, a security source and…
Piracy: Nigeria Leads In Gulf Of Guinea
Pirate attacks dropped to the lowest, since 2008, this year as the presence of naval forces helped deter Somalis from…
War Against Piracy: ‘We’ve Changed Strategies’
National President of the Yoruba Video and Films Producers/Marketers Association of Nigeria (YOVIFPMAN), Alhaji Toyin Usman, says the association has …
Ship’s crew aborts pirate hijack off Nigeria
Pirates attacked a Greek-owned oil tanker off Nigeria Friday but failed to hijack the ship after the crew hid in…
Piracy Bill Presented To Stakeholders
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has presented a Draft Bill on Piracy and Other Unlawful Acts at…
Porn Movie Pirates Arrested
The anti-piracy squad of the Yoruba video Film Producers Association of Nigeria, YOVIFPAN, in collaboration with the Lagos State Film…