Some 10 pirates have reportedly been jailed in Nigeria.
According to reports, the 10 were handed a 12 years prison sentence by a Federal Court.
Reports say they were jailed for hijacking a Chinese fishing vessel.
The pirates are reported to have kidnapped crew members of the vessel in May 2020.
They were jailed under Nigeria’s anti-piracy law passed in 2019.
Reuters News Agency reported that a federal court judge also ordered the guilty men to pay a fine of $600 (£435) and said they were “an embarrassment to the nation” that had “impacted the economy negatively”
