According to a report by La Repubblica, most of the 375 survivors of the shipwrecks were sub-Saharan Africans, from Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, The Gambia and Sudan, with 90 women - eight of them pregnant - and 52 children. Refrence: http://www.pulse.ng/news/local/ezekwesili-condemns-buharis-silence-over-26-nigerians-killed-id7569965.html

I wish no ill on any Nationality but I find it odd that out of a Ship full of West Africans and Sudanese only Nigerian girls died – 26 of them no less. Does Nigeria posses no governmental or independent body charged with investigating and verifying Nigerian deaths abroad? Even if one wished to suggest that, with millions of Nigerians abroad, such a portfolio is untenable, then surly, this area justified such a special task force since the narrative of Africans crossing the Mediterranean has increasingly shifted to Nigeria.



Further Reading:

Ezekwesili condemns President's silence over 26 Nigerian girls, women killed at sea

She urged the president to take measures to assure Nigerians that the government cares about the people's welfare.


http://www.pulse.ng/news/local/ezekwesili-condemns-buharis-silence-over-26-nigerians-killed-id7569965.html

...perhaps a special dingy for Nigerians alone -especially Teenage ones - was tethered to the main ship occupied by the main bulk of West and Central Africans