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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J More than 900 migrants have been rescued off the coast of Libya during the past 48 hours while trying to reach Italy, the Italian coastguard said Friday. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said that it saved 716 of the migrants, and had found one body. “Around 800 people were rescued today (Friday) during eight separate operations” in the Mediterranean, said a spokesman for the coastguard, which is coordinating the operations. The migrants were on eight boats, including two inflatables, he said. Some 130 others were rescued on Thursday. MSF tweeted that it had “completed the 5th rescue (operation) and now have 716 people onboard. Unfortunately, for one person we arrived too late.” The UN refugee agency has said around 61,250 migrants have reached Italy since the start of the year after crossing the Mediterranean, while 1,778 more are dead or missing. Conflict-ravaged Libya has long been a stepping stone for migrants seeking a better life in Europe. It has urged...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J I tsekiri Integrity Crusaders, IIC, has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to speed up the investigation of some elders of Koko community in Warri-North Local Government Area, Delta State, over alleged missing N567million community funds. Those under investigation by the anti- graft body were alleged to have fraudulently diverted the money to their personal accounts. In a statement by Mr. Amos Oritsemi, President of IIC, the group claimed that the Port Harcourt zone of the anti-graft body had made significant progress into the investigation of the missing funds through records of bank transactions obtained from the bank as well as confessional statements made by the branch bank manager and a banking officer at the Koko branch of a new generation bank. According to the statement, the branch manager who had since been granted conditional bail confessed to have assisted some of the elders carry out the illegal transfer from the reserve ...