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...
The Inter Party Advisory Council, IPAC, has denounced the position of the United Nations on the number of political parties in Nigeria. The council also described...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has aplauded the emergence of Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Tijani Muhammad-Bande, as the President of the 74th Session...
Barely 24 hours after the state emirate was divided to reduce his power, Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has been appointed by the United Nations...
President of the United Nations General Assembly (PGA) Maria Espinosa, will on Monday pay a one-day official visit to Nigeria, where she is expected to be...
The United Nations (UN) has expressed worries over the rise in Measles cases across the world. According to the organisation, measles cases rose by 300 per...
Sequel to the Hanke’s report, ranking Nigeria as the 6th most miserable country, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Programme (WFP) and...
The US Senate is set to vote on Wednesday in order to terminate Washington’s support for the Saudi Arabia-led military campaign in Yemen. Senator Bernie Sanders...
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 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...
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...
UNICEF, an organ of the United Nations (UN) said on Friday, that the futures of millions of children living in countries affected by armed conflict are...
The United Nations Support for the Sahel has said Nigeria needs about $337 billion to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) from 2019 to 2022. According...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has warned that the Executive Order 6 signed by President Muhammadu Buhari will lead...
The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), Amina Mohammed, has expressed her worry over the rising level of debt in Nigeria and other African nations....
The Federal Government paid a huge ransom to Boko Haram insurgents for the release of the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls in March, 2018, a United Nations report...
Nigeria’s dependence on the oil sector as its major source of foreign exchange earnings was responsible for the country’s high unemployment rate, a former United Nations...
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...
About 3.6 million people, mostly children in crises-ravaged areas of North-East Nigeria are without water and sanitation infrastructure, according to UNICEF. The United Nations agency warned Tuesday,...
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, today joined other world leaders and international organizations like the United Nations (UN) to insist that civilians must...
The United Nations has revealed that no less than 600 Congo peacekeepers accused of sexual abuse have been asked to leave the Central African Republic with...
Defiant North Korea led by headstrong leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to enhance its nuclear-strike ability despite sanctions from the United Nations. That much information...
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...
A funeral at a community hall in the Yemeni capital Sanaa turned bloody after Saudi-led warplanes struck, killing more than 140 mourners according to local health...
President Muhammadu Buhari, challenged developed countries to the fight against corruption seriously by disallowing the inflow of illicit money into their countries. The president, who spoke...
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has agreed to the swapping of the abducted schoolgirls from Chibok with Boko Haram fighters in custody. The President told the United...
The United Nations has revealed that over 1 million refugees have fled war-torn South Sudan for safety in neighboring countries with women, children and survivors of...
President Muhammadu Buhari will from September 19-23, 2016 be in New York, United States to participate in the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly...
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has accused security agents of plotting to kill its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu. According to IPOB, security agents fired teargas...
United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, has been scheduled to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja next week. Kerry, who will also be meeting...
The decision by the United Nations to deploy 4,000 strong troops to Juba, has been disapproved by authorities in South Sudan. Moments after the UN Security...
The President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza has rejected the deployment of up to 228 United Nations police officers to monitor and possibly quell fresh violence which...
The United Nations has ordered the deployment of 228 UN police personnel to Burundi as human rights and security situation worsens in the East African country....
A day after the United Nations warned of a possibility of fresh fighting in Juba, heavily armed Ugandan troops have crossed into South Sudan to rescue...
The perennial crisis in the Nigerian energy sector was again brought to the fore with the latest revelation that generator manufacturers and distributors brought into the...
The United Nations has called for an immediate investigation into the discovery of six disfigured bodies found at the edge of a river in Democratic Republic...
A malicious hack by North Korea into more than 14,000 computers at large in South Korea affecting big conglomerates and government agencies has been thwarted in...
Another crisis may be brewing in the ever restive Niger Delta, as militants numbering over 600, Friday, demanded that the Federal Government reclaim the ceded Bakassi...
At least five United Nations peacekeepers from Togo were killed while one other was seriously injured following an ambush by suspected militants in central Mali. According...
According to coast guards stationed at the Mediterranean Sea, at least 45 migrants died and 2,000 others were rescued in a shipwreck as the number of...
FIFA has fired deputy secretary general Markus Kattner after allegedly uncovering financial wrongdoing during an internal investigation. Kattner, who joined FIFA as director of finance in...
According to the United Nations Development Programme, the sum of $290 million is needed for assistance until March next year to help provide food and aid...
