US President Donald Trump has ordered the country’s withdrawal from 66 international organisations, which the White House says operate against America’s national interests. Of the organisations listed, 31 are affiliated with the United Nations (UN), while 35 are non-UN bodies. The directive was signed on Wednesday following a review earlier this year in which […]
US rapper Nicki Minaj visited the United Nations (UN) headquarters on Tuesday, raising alarms that Christians in Nigeria are being targeted, driven from their homes, and killed. According to a report by TheCable, the music star was invited by Mike Waltz, the US ambassador to the UN, for a discussion on the administration’s efforts to […]
Vice President Kashim Shettima on Friday met with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in New York, pressing Nigeria’s case for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council and seeking deeper collaboration with the UN system on democracy, security, and development. Representing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA80), Shettima […]
The Rockefeller Foundation has identified Nigeria as one of the global leaders backing international cooperation ahead of UN General Assembly. This information was released courtesy of a survey conducted across 34 countries and involving more than 36,000 respondents by FocalData between August 8 and September 10, 2025. According to the data, about 71 percent of […]
Vice-President Kashim Shettima has called for the urgent revival of Lake Chad as a strategic move to enhance food security and support Nigeria’s Green Revolution efforts. Speaking at the UN Food Systems Summit +4 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Wednesday, Shettima said restoring the shrinking lake is vital to achieving sustainable and inclusive food systems […]
The number of Nigerian children facing acute food shortages and hunger has been put at 5.9 million. The UN resident coordinator disclosed this at the launch of 2024 the Lean Season Food Security and Nutrition Crisis multi-sector plan. According to Fall, the resident coordinator, the plan seeks to harmonise with existing government investments and actions […]
By Doosuur Iwambe United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres on Tuesday called for improved digital accessibility for Persons Living with Disabilities (PLWD). Guterres made the call at the opening of the 16th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) at UN headquarters in New […]
Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), on Saturday condemned the outbreak of fighting between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in Sudan. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the RSF and SAF have been exchanging fire since 9am on Saturday. At least three civilians have been killed, according to […]
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday it may not have enough funding for the next six months to help millions of people in Myanmar facing food insecurity amid a wave of COVID-19 infections and political unrest in the southeast Asian nation. The WFP said in a statement it needs $86 million dollars […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said as part of efforts to reduce the suffering of Nigerians imposed by the COVID-19 his administration has commenced the distribution of palliatives worth N10.9 billion to households and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. READ ALSO: Buhari would be remembered as the father of democracy in Nigeria— Obaseki He said this while delivering […]
The members of the UN Security Council have condemned the multiple terrorist attacks which resulted in several deaths with many others injured in North East Nigeria. These recent attacks were carried out on June 9, and June 10, in Felo, and on June 13, in Monguno against a UN humanitarian facility and on June 13, […]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned of a “horrifying global surge” in domestic violence during the coronavirus crisis, and urged governments to step up efforts to prevent violence against women, in a video message on Sunday. “We know lockdowns and quarantines are essential to suppressing COVID-19. But they can trap women with abusive partners,” Guterres […]
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said the world was lagging in its coordinated fight against the coronavirus, as he launched a plan to address the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic. “This is the most challenging crisis we have faced since the Second World War,” the UN chief told a virtual press conference. This […]
Poorer countries need 2 billion dollars of international humanitarian aid to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said in launching a major donation appeal on Wednesday. Guterres said the virus is arriving in “in countries already in the midst of humanitarian crises caused by conflicts, natural disasters and climate change,” and that the […]
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Tuesday warned that the world was far off the path it needs to be on to reach climate goals agreed by the international community in 2015. “We are currently way off track to meeting either the 1.5-degree or 2-degree targets that the Paris Agreement calls for,” the secretary general […]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says gender inequality is the “overwhelming injustice of our age and the biggest human rights challenge we face”. Guterres made the assertion at an event organised by the UN in New York on Friday to commemorate the International Women’s Day 2020. He noted that gender equality is a question of […]
Nigeria has been re-elected to Chair the UN Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations, known to be “UN most strategic committee” on the record 48th time. According to a statement on Friday by Amb. Samson Itegboje, the Charge d’Affaires and Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the UN, Nigeria re-emerged the committee’s Chair by election. Itegboje, the […]
The United Nations will support African governments to expand access to quality and affordable reproductive health services for disadvantaged groups like women and girls living in urban slums, officials said on Wednesday. Dereje Wordofa, the Deputy Executive Director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), said this in a speech read on his behalf by Hala Youssef, […]
United Nations – A senior UN official, Ms Agnès Callamard, has urged the organisation and its leadership to “step up” to prevent another war in the Gulf. Callamard, who is the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, made the call in a tweet on Friday. She was reacting to a statement by […]
Mogadishu – Two UN agencies said on Friday that some 5,087 Somali refugees had so far returned home from Yemen since it started an Assisted Spontaneous Return (ASR) programme in 2017. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said that 39 organised departures had taken place from Yemen to Somalia […]
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