Nigerian Professor builds boat from scratch

Two critically injured as suspected pirates attack passengers boat along Oron-Calabar waterway.

Lagos State Inland waterways authority warns against boat operation at night.

Lagos State Inland waterways authority warns against boat operation at night

Navy to check fraudulent activities of boat owners

80-year-old sailor and journalist Jimmy Cornell starts his around-the-world tour from Seville to mark the 500th anniversary of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and Spanish sailor Juan Sebastian Elcano's expedition that resulted in the Earth's first circumnavigation. Cornell is completing his expedition aboard the Aventura Zero catamaran for the "Challenge Elcano 500", a totally electric boat, and hopes to complete the journey in nine months.

Emergency services are currently searching for at least 16 people missing and feared dead, after a Russian trawler, the Onega, sank in the Arctic circle.

Nigerian Professor builds boat from scratch

Many of the passengers on board are suffering extreme dehydration, and some have already died. The UNHCR has called on governments to immediately rescue the refugees, who have been at sea for more than a week.

At least four victims have been confirmed dead, but rescuers fear more than 150 people could have drowned. A local official said the boat was carrying at least twice as many people as permitted.

A boat carrying at least 160 people capsized on Wednesday night in the Niger River, North-West Nigeria. The incident occurred near the town of Wara, which is on the shores of the Kainji Lake on the border between Niger and Kebbi states

The boat had originally set off towards Europe from the Libyan city of Zuwara. Over 120 migrants were aboard.

Residents of several floods that disrupted Chinese villages in Henan province were evacuated with an emergency boat bridge built overnight.