Nigeria is one of the world's hotspots where people are killed through acts of piracy. Thrown into the chaos, corruption and anarchy of Lagos, the most densely populated city in Africa, Ross soon discovers that the problem of piracy is worse than he imagined. At the port of Lagos he hears how attacks on international oil tankers have threatened the lifeblood of the country's economy.<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-3.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Ross in Adjigula, Lagos Nigeria.","caption":"
Nigeria is one of the world's hotspots where people are killed through acts of piracy. Thrown into the chaos, corruption and anarchy of Lagos, the most densely populated city in Africa, Ross soon discovers that the problem of piracy is worse than he imagined. At the port of Lagos he hears how attacks on international oil tankers have threatened the lifeblood of the country's economy.<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-4.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Travelling to Ogoniland oil spill. ","caption":"
Travelling to an oil spill up river to look at another oil spillage which is ruining the local environment the source of food for the Nigerian People.<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-10.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Travelling to Ogoniland oil spill. ","caption":"
Travelling to an oil spill up river to look at another oil spillage which is ruining the local environment the source of food for the Nigerian People.<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-11.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Ross at the Ogoniland oil spill.","caption":"
Ross explores the devastation that the oil companies have created and he begins to feel sick breathing in the toxic atmosphere.<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-7.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Ross at the Ogoniland oil spill.","caption":"
Ross explores the devastation that the oil companies have created and he begins to feel sick breathing in the toxic atmosphere.<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-8.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Ross at the Ogoniland oil spill.","caption":"
Ross explores the devastation that the oil companies have created and he begins to feel sick breathing in the toxic atmosphere.<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-6.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Ross at the Ogoniland oil spill.","caption":"
Ross explores the devastation that the oil companies have created and he begins to feel sick breathing in the toxic atmosphere.<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-5.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Ross interviewing Chief Odularey.","caption":"
Chief Odularey has lived in the slums on this river for more than 50 years and remembers when he could still fish in it. Now, boats and nets lie unused as the fisherman are too scared to go to the sea to fish for fear of pirate attacks.<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-20.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Ross interviewing Chief Odularey.","caption":"
Chief Odularey has lived in the slums on this river for more than 50 years and remembers when he could still fish in it. Now, boats and nets lie unused as the fisherman are too scared to go to the sea to fish for fear of pirate attacks.<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-18.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Ross interviewing Chief Odularey.","caption":"
Chief Odularey has lived in the slums on this river for more than 50 years and remembers when he could still fish in it. Now, boats and nets lie unused as the fisherman are too scared to go to the sea to fish for fear of pirate attacks.<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-16.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Ross interviewing Chief Odularey.","caption":"
Chief Odularey has lived in the slums on this river for more than 50 years and remembers when he could still fish in it. Now, boats and nets lie unused as the fisherman are too scared to go to the sea to fish for fear of pirate attacks.<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-19.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Port Hardcourt GV","caption":"
Port Hardcourt GV, for the last 50 years has been the centre of the oil industry in the Niger Delta.<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-13.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Nigerian trawlermen in Lagos Harbour.","caption":"
Ross also discovers the devastating impact pirate attacks have had on Nigeria's fishing fleet. Ships are attacked and held to ransom on a daily basis, and almost 300 seamen have been killed by pirates in the last few years. One trawler owner describes how crew members have had their hands cut off and one man was thrown into a freezer to die.<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-22.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Nigerian trawlermen in Lagos Harbour.","caption":"
Ross also discovers the devastating impact pirate attacks have had on Nigeria's fishing fleet. Ships are attacked and held to ransom on a daily basis, and almost 300 seamen have been killed by pirates in the last few years. One trawler owner describes how crew members have had their hands cut off and one man was thrown into a freezer to die.<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-24.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Nigerian trawlermen in Lagos Harbour.","caption":"
Ross also discovers the devastating impact pirate attacks have had on Nigeria's fishing fleet. Ships are attacked and held to ransom on a daily basis, and almost 300 seamen have been killed by pirates in the last few years. One trawler owner describes how crew members have had their hands cut off and one man was thrown into a freezer to die.<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-25.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Nigerian trawlermen in Lagos Harbour.","caption":"
Ross also discovers the devastating impact pirate attacks have had on Nigeria's fishing fleet. Ships are attacked and held to ransom on a daily basis, and almost 300 seamen have been killed by pirates in the last few years. One trawler owner describes how crew members have had their hands cut off and one man was thrown into a freezer to die.<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-26.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Lagos harbour.","caption":"
With the battle over Nigeria's oil supplies continuing to escalate, oil and trawler workers are targets for kidnappers, especially white ex-pat workers. Between 2006 and 2008, over $1,000,000 was paid in ransom to pirates. Ross meets Billy Graham, one of the first ex-pats to be kidnapped in Nigeria. He was held for 26 days and wasn't given food for 10 days: \"I had to dig my own grave and lie down in it. I didn't know if I was going to live or die.\"<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-14.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Lagos harbour.","caption":"
With the battle over Nigeria's oil supplies continuing to escalate, oil and trawler workers are targets for kidnappers, especially white ex-pat workers. Between 2006 and 2008, over $1,000,000 was paid in ransom to pirates. Ross meets Billy Graham, one of the first ex-pats to be kidnapped in Nigeria. He was held for 26 days and wasn't given food for 10 days: \"I had to dig my own grave and lie down in it. I didn't know if I was going to live or die.\"<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-27.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Lagos harbour.","caption":"
With the battle over Nigeria's oil supplies continuing to escalate, oil and trawler workers are targets for kidnappers, especially white ex-pat workers. Between 2006 and 2008, over $1,000,000 was paid in ransom to pirates. Ross meets Billy Graham, one of the first ex-pats to be kidnapped in Nigeria. He was held for 26 days and wasn't given food for 10 days: \"I had to dig my own grave and lie down in it. I didn't know if I was going to live or die.\"<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-28.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Lagos harbour.","caption":"
With the battle over Nigeria's oil supplies continuing to escalate, oil and trawler workers are targets for kidnappers, especially white ex-pat workers. Between 2006 and 2008, over $1,000,000 was paid in ransom to pirates. Ross meets Billy Graham, one of the first ex-pats to be kidnapped in Nigeria. He was held for 26 days and wasn't given food for 10 days: \"I had to dig my own grave and lie down in it. I didn't know if I was going to live or die.\"<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-29.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Lagos harbour.","caption":"
With the battle over Nigeria's oil supplies continuing to escalate, oil and trawler workers are targets for kidnappers, especially white ex-pat workers. Between 2006 and 2008, over $1,000,000 was paid in ransom to pirates. Ross meets Billy Graham, one of the first ex-pats to be kidnapped in Nigeria. He was held for 26 days and wasn't given food for 10 days: \"I had to dig my own grave and lie down in it. I didn't know if I was going to live or die.\"<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-30.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Lagos harbour.","caption":"
With the battle over Nigeria's oil supplies continuing to escalate, oil and trawler workers are targets for kidnappers, especially white ex-pat workers. Between 2006 and 2008, over $1,000,000 was paid in ransom to pirates. Ross meets Billy Graham, one of the first ex-pats to be kidnapped in Nigeria. He was held for 26 days and wasn't given food for 10 days: \"I had to dig my own grave and lie down in it. I didn't know if I was going to live or die.\"<\/p>","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-23.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Ogoniland","caption":"","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-9.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Lagos traffic with oil tank.","caption":"","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"","caption":"","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"","caption":"","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-12.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"Ajegunle Ferry","caption":"","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-17.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"},{"captionHeading":"","caption":"","url":"2009/6/11/Ross-Kemp-In-Search-Of-Pirates-Nigeria-2.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Ross Kemp In Search Of Pirates Nigeria"}];