Mozambique officials have disclosed that 15,000 people still need to be rescued from the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai. In the port city of Beira, aid...
According to the Ear, Nose and Throat Department of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi, Anambra State, 8.5 million Nigerians have hearing disabilities. The...
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has resolved to approach the United Nations and other global democratic institutions over the alleged roles the Nigerian military played in...
The United Nations special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Diego Garcia-Sayán, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to suspend Walter Onnoghen, Chief Justice of...
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has petitioned the United Nations and the African Union Commission complaining about President Muhammadu Buhari’s suspension of the Chief...
About 76,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Rann are at risk of starvation following recent Boko Haram attack which forced humanitarian workers to flee. On Monday,...
A report by the Secretary General of the United Nations on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, UNIWAS, has...
A report by the United Nations Women Africa has revealed that Nigeria has the highest child brides in the world. According to the UN, there are...
France’s face veil ban is a violation of women’s rights, so says the United Nations Human Rights Council in a landmark ruling on Tuesday. The UN...
A coalition has written to António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General, to strip former President Olusegun Obasanjo of all ties with the UN, including his recent nomination...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has recalled with relish, its recent meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, with the United Nations (UN), describing it as a “historic...
Following the presentation of a United Nations report to the UN Security Council which revealed that Nigeria paid ransom to secure the release of female students...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Senate President Bukola Saraki and the entire leadership of the Senate of Nigeria before the United Nations...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the United Nations (UN) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague to take judicial note of...
Relief operations in Rann, a town in Borno State has resumed according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA). According...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the UN Security Council to “treat the atrocities by herdsmen in Nigeria as terrorist acts. The group...
A report from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and its partner, the Global Alliance of Improved Nutrition (GAIN), has said that insufficient iodine during pregnancy...
President Muhammadu Buhari says the attack on humanitarian workers in Rann, Borno State, was the “height of bestiality”, proving once again that Boko Haram insurgents were...
A US media report citing findings by UN experts has revealed that pariah Asian country, North Korea has been sending equipment to Syria that could be...
Recent allegations of sexual abuse has forced the United Nations to recall a Ghanaian police unit working at one of its protection camps in South Sudan...
Less than one week after the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo said the Federal Government will support the creation of state police, governors of the 36 states...
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has issued a statement declaring that the continued detention of Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud...
An emergency appeal to raise funds for Syria and Palestine has been launched by the United Nations to fill in budget gaps left behind by the...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an appeal to the United Nations (UN) to intervene in the persistent killings in Benue State of...
The United Nations through its secretary-general Antonio Guterres has condemned the killing of 14 UN peacekeepers and five Congolese air force members in an attack by...
The Red Cross says it has uncovered several cases of fraud by officials during efforts to combat the Ebola epidemic that hit West Africa between 2014...
Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, Monday said that donors have pledged about $700 million to address the humanitarian crisis in the Lake Chad Basin region....
The United Nations (UN) has revealed that bad governance was the major force behind the rise of extremist groups around Africa, including Nigeria’s Boko Haram. The...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has condemned the August 31 attack by Boko Haram insurgents at the Banki camp for displaced persons in...
The United Nations has raised a rare racism alarm in the US as it called on American President Donald Trump to ‘unequivocally’ condemn racist speech and...
One month after issuing the highly provocative and contentious quit notice to Igbos to leave the North before the 1st of October, 2017, Arewa youths have...
An investigation into extra-judicial killings and other atrocities committed in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been opened by the United Nations...
No less than 15 helpless kids have reportedly lost their lives in South Sudan following a botched vaccine campaign in the war ravaged country. According to...
Defiant North Korea led by headstrong leader Kim Jong Un has promised America bigger “gift packages” moments after its leader supervised new ballistic missile test and...
A disturbing scenario has been created, indicating that Nigeria needs a minimum of $250 million food aid in 2017 to save about 4.7 million of its...
A day after the United Nations revealed that over 100 persons have been feared dead following violent militia clashes in the Central African Republic in the...
A report by the United Nations reveals that over 100 persons have been feared dead following violent militia clashes in the Central African Republic in the...
The United Nations through two of its agencies, the UN children’s fund UNICEF and the refugee agency UNHCR have both revealed in reports that more than...
Russia has vetoed a United Nations (UN) resolution against the UN Security council carrying out any action on Syria. The world super power voted against a...
The United States has gotten itself directly involved in the ongoing civil war in Syria. In retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack on the rebel-held...
The United Nations has raised an alarm over the reduction of US contribution to the world body saying it could ‘undermine the impact of longer-term reform...
The United Nations has revealed that the world is facing its largest humanitarian crises since the UN was established in 1945 with more than 20 million...
Months after declaring its intention to quit the International Criminal Court (ICC), the South African government has withdrawn its intention to leave the Hague-based war crimes...
In a bid to fight the debilitating pangs of hunger, hundreds of thousands of wizened South Sudanese families have resorted to eating weeds and water lilies...
Newly sworn-in President of the Gambia Adama Barrow has declared that his country will not quit the International Court of Justice (ICC) in a move which...
The United Nations through its secretary-general, António Guterres has disturbingly revealed that over 201 million people will be jobless in 2017. The new UN chief, also...
Following the arrest of Premium Times publisher and a Correspondent with the online newspaper by the Nigerian Police, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and the...
Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has branded Kaduna State Council of Imams and Ulamas as part of the evil network whose sole aim is to decimate...
Days after it was slammed with stiffer sanctions by the United Nations Security Council, the government of North Korea has warned of “tougher counter measures for...
Authorities in South Sudan have denied clams by the UN that a process of ethnic cleansing is underway amid civil war in the country. While strongly...
