The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNGs) on Friday condemned the United Nations’ demand for the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra...
The United Nations Human Rights office has put civilian death toll in Syria at 306,887 since a conflict broke out in the country in March 2011,...
The 550 Ethiopian soldiers who were part of the United Nations peacekeeping team in Sudan have refused to return home and are seeking asylum in the...
The United Nations said on Saturday at least 7.7 million are facing severe food crisis and in need of humanitarian assistance in South Sudan. In a...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) said Wednesday that at least 516 persons had been killed in Russia’s invasion of its Southern neighbour,...
The United Nations has raised an alarm over the infiltration and activities of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) terrorist group in Nigeria and...
The United Nations said on Wednesday it would need $1.1 billion to provide humanitarian assistance to 8.4 million vulnerable Nigerians in the North-East this year. The...
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said on Tuesday at least 14.3 million people are into drug abuse in Nigeria. In a report...
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres has projected that by the year 2030, about 50 per cent of the world’s population would live in coastal...
It was not surprising that the Nigerian Diaspora community would gather in New York City at the 76th session of the UN General Assembly to protest...
A video has emerged in the internet allegedly showing some non Nigerians being recruited to take part in counter-protests in support of the Nigerian government at...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday renewed Nigeria’s demand for the urgent reforms of the United Nations Security Council, saying the 15 years intergovernmental negotiations on the...
A report by the United Nations (UN) has disclosed that most agricultural funding distorts prices in the market and harms the environment. The report, A multi-billion-dollar...
[responsivevoice_button voice=”UK English Female” buttontext=”Listen to Post”] Seventeen regional United Nations entities, under Africa Regional Collaborative Platform (RCP), on Tuesday, unveiled the Africa UN Data for...
Despite its pledge to ensure the status quo regarding the entrenchment of women’s rights, the Taliban has reneged on its agreement, according to the United Nations....
The United Nations on Tuesday said serious human rights violations had been committed since the Taliban’s seizure of power in Afghanistan. This was contained in a...
A report by a United Nations (UN) independent news organisation, The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN News), has uncovered a secret programme by the Nigerian government tagged,...
The United Nations has set up an emergency committee to tackle famine in northern Nigeria. The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, who announced this at a news...
The National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), has written an open letter President Muhammadu Buhari, the Secretary General of the United Nations Organization (UN), the Security Council of...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on Friday asked the United Nations Human Rights Office to appoint a country rapporteur to look into the increasing...
The United Nations has suspended humanitarian operations in Damasak and Dikwa areas of Borno State over incessant terror attacks targeting its workers and volunteers. The Resident...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the UN Security Council and its members urging them to “urgently hold a special...
The United Nations (UN) on Thursday said the economy of Africa’s most populous nation, though slow, was moving in the right direction. The Deputy Secretary-General of...
Nigeria was the top Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) destination in Sub-Saharan Africa for 2020 ahead of South Africa and Ethiopia, the United Nations Trade Association (UNTA)...
The United Nations on Monday withdrew its earlier claim that 110 farmers were killed by suspected Boko Haram insurgents in Zabarmari community of Borno State. In...
The United Nations has declared that Sudan needs the sum of $150m in aid to cope with the flood of Ethiopian refugees crossing its border from...
The United Nations (UN) has announced that it has temporarily suspended humanitarian services in the troubled eastern part of South Sudan after the killing of two...
Amid the backlash faced by the Nigeria Police due to brutality and rights abuses, Chief Superintendent, Catherine Ugorji has remained a shining light. Officer Ugorji who...
The United Nations has confirmed the killing of no fewer than two of its health workers who both died during an explosion in the country’s capital...
The United Nations on Saturday confirmed the killing of at least eight children in a school in Kumba, southwestern Cameroon. Local official had earlier said four...
The United Nations has warned politicians in Guinea to curb hate speech rising in the lead-up to general elections, warning the situation iwas “extremely dangerous” and...
The leaders of the military coup in Mali have held talks with a host of opposition leaders who have welcomed the ousting of embattled President Ibrahim...
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday ordered soldiers that toppled Malian President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, to immediately return to their barracks without delay. The 15-member...
The United Nations has warned of an impending spike in hunger and conflict in the troubled North-Eastern part of the country. The warning was sounded on...
The United Nations (UN) has commenced investigation into a viral video showing a couple having sex in one of its official cars. The spokesman of the...
The European Union (EU) and United Nations (UN) on Saturday handed essential medical supplies to the Federal Government to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in the country....
The African Union and the United Nations have both raised concerns over rising incidents of clashes in Burundi between rival supporters during campaigns ahead of next...
With close to a hundred percent of global destinations, airline companies and borders under lock and key, tourism and travels are unarguably one of the major...
The United Nations on Tuesday evening delivered ventilators and other medical supplies to Nigeria. The medical supplies were received by the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika,...
The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has commended Nigeria’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Guterres, who spoke at a virtual news briefing in New York, the...
The United Nations has condemned in strong terms the attack on its main humanitarian accommodation facility in Ngala, the north-eastern part of Borno State by Boko...
The United Nations on Tuesday condemned the introduction of the death penalty in the Hate Speech Bill currently before the National Assembly. The UN has also...
The Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, Sir Mark Lowcock has revealed that no fewer than 38 UN and NGO workers have been killed by Boko...
Earth’s oceans are under severe strain from climate change, a major new United Nations report warns, threatening everything from the ability to harvest seafood to the...
The United Nations has handed Gabon (which is almost 90 percent covered by forest) the sum of $150 million spread over 10-years to fight the devastating...
The United Nations has expressed fears that strife-stricken North African nation, Libya, may slide into in a “full civil war” unless moves are soon made to...
The United Nations has been forced to postpone an anti-torture conference scheduled to be held next month in Cairo, Egypt, over the country’s poor human rights...
No less than 35,000 persons have lost their lives in Nigeria’s North East of Adamawa, Borno, Yobe and other states due to Boko Haram’s unending attacks,...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has again called out President Muhammadu Buhari, accusing his administration of ruining the country with misrule and grand cluelessness. Atiku, was...
The United Nations (UN) on Wednesday faulted recent claims by the Presidency that Boko Haram insurgency has been defeated. This was as the UN said that...
