The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has confirmed that it has recovered nine bodies from a boat that capsized at 40 nautical miles off the coast of Calabar, Cross River State, South-south Nigeria.
The boat reportedly left on Friday from the remote town of Oron in Akwa- Ibom state and was heading across the Gulf of Guinea to Gabon, in Central Africa.
The spokesman added that rescue operations are ongoing.