The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, will begin a four-day working visit to Nigeria and three other West African countries later on Sunday. A statement...
The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, has condemned the shooting of peaceful #EndSARS protesters in Lagos State on Tuesday by security operatives. Different...
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation says more than nine million people in Sudan who have been displaced by flooding are in need of assistance....
The United Nations on Monday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to complement military efforts with a political approach in tackling the country’s security challenges. The UN Resident...
The United Nations has revealed that no fewer than 70 people were killed and dozens wounded during weekend clashes between South Sudan’s army and armed civilians...
The United Nations (UN) has condemned the execution of five aid workers by Boko Haram terrorists in Borno State. In a statement in response to the...
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 United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking $182 million as financial support for Nigeria’s worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic, including communities in North-East...
The United Nations disarmament chief has warned of an increase in cybercrime as the COVID-19 pandemic is moving the world towards increased technological innovation and online...
The United Nations (UN) Population Fund (UNFPA) says Nigeria records 12,000 new cases of Vesicovaginal Fistula (VVF) yearly. The Country Representative of UNFPA, Mrs. Ulla Muller,...
The United Nations Middle East envoy, Nickolay Mladenov Wednesday warned Israel against continued threats to occupy parts of the West Bank as such plans were breeching...
Governments across the world have been urged by the World Food Programme and the United Nations children’s agency to shore up the futures of the 370...
The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has received heavy knocks over his move to cut funding for the World Health Organization (WHO)...
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,...
Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo and other former presidents of different African countries have decried the continent’s porous borders. The former leaders were reacting to...
The United Nations has declared that the coronavirus pandemic presents the world with its “worst crisis” since World War II, with the number of dead in...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa said on Saturday 3,778 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in 46 countries on the continent. The...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an urgent complaint to the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention over what it said, was...
The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres has recommended that ministers and diplomats skip a meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York...
The United Nations in a joint report with the World Health Organization and the Lancet medical journal has warned that poor diet and climate change pose...
The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the African Union Peace Fund should be structured for the internal support arrangements within the continent and...
The former Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency, Ms. Damilola Ogunbiyi, has assumed duty at her new job at the United Nations. A UN spokesman,...
Tens of thousands of civilians have fled Syria’s Idlib province to the Turkish border, after an increase in bombings by Russia-backed government forces, creating a new...
The United Nations Security Council will meet at China’s request on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Indian-administered Kashmir, diplomats said. The council will meet behind...
United Nations, Amnesty International, and Action Against Hunger have all condemned the execution of the four abducted humanitarian workers by Boko Haram. The victims, who were...
A new survey by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has revealed that an estimated N675billion was...
The United Nations and the European Union have called on the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai to put an end to the spread...
The Egyptian government has come under severe criticism from the United Nations over its crackdown on civil society groups since President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi assumed office...
The United Nations has declared that the death of former Egyptian President, Mohammed Morsi, who died in prison last June could amount to “a state-sanctioned arbitrary...
The United Nations said on Friday that at least 1.2 million civilians are trapped in two local government areas controlled by Boko Haram. The civilians, according...
The United States has expressed disappointment at the delay in the formation of a government of national unity despite the agreement between the South Sudan president,...
The move by the administration of President Donald Trump of America, to formally notify the United Nations that it will withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate...
It is a common knowledge that the Ijaw Youths Council recently issued a release which among other remarks stated that; if the government should reintroduce what...
Following the gruesome murder of an aid worker by Boko Haram terrorists in Borno, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, has demanded the unconditional...
President Muhammadu Buhari, while addressing world leaders at the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA74), has advocated action against social media to prevent...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to accept the “bitter truth” instead of picking a fight with the United Nation (UN) Rapporteur...
President Muhammadu Buhari, has expressed disappointment with the United Nations report on violence in Nigeria for failing to address important aspects, such as intra-group violence. In...
A United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions, Agnes Callarmard, has faulted the proscription of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), saying the group...
The United Nations (UN) on Monday night condemned the growing cases of arbitrary and extrajudicial killings in Nigeria, calling it a tragedy for the people that...
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...
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has said that his government is willing to secure bond offerings to offset the outstanding gratuities of state pensioners. According...
We can’t achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement without managing emissions from land use, according to a special report released today by the Intergovernmental...
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 has blamed the prevailing farmer, herders’ crisis in the country on the weak Local Government administration system in the country. The Peace and...
Many African countries have a long way to go to meet the sustainable development goals. These goals, set by the United Nations, call for all countries...
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), on Friday, expressed concern over reported attacks on aid workers in northern Borno State. There had...
In the evening of June 23, 2019, the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, in a town hall meeting, was addressing Nigerians based in New York, United...
A new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes has revealed that about 64,000 Nigerians are murdered annually in the country. The report...
Rights group Amnesty International has called on the United Nations to conduct an “urgent” investigation into President of the Philippine Rodrigo Duterte’s “murderous war on drugs”....
The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has been queried by the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations (UN) for his inability to stem the high...