One in every 45 people in the world – a record 168 million – will need humanitarian assistance in 2020, according to a United Nations report released on Wednesday. The number of people on the brink of survival has grown by 22 million over the past year due to violent and protracted conflicts, climate change-related […]
A global snapshot on children, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) released by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) ahead of the World AIDS Day revealed that about 47 children and adolescents died every day from AIDS-related causes in 2018. The report revealed that only 35 percent of children living with […]
Ogun state government says that it is determined to end the spread of the HIV virus by 2030, in line with the United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS. Executive Secretary, Ogun state Agency for the Control of AIDS (OGUNSACA), Dr. Kehinde Fatungase restated the state’s commitment at a press conference to commemorate the 2019 World AIDS […]
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has emphasized the need to give the required support to all Nigerian children to enable them fulfil their dreams. Speaking while addressing the students of Government Day Secondary School, Garki, to commemorate the 2019 international World Children’s Day in Abuja, the UNICEF Country Representative, Mr. Peter Hawkins said that […]
The United Nations Security Council has ended 15 years of peacekeeping operations in Haiti on Tuesday. The UN first sent peacekeepers to Haiti after then-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown by the army in 2004 under the pressure of a popular uprising. Although, the UN regretted that the country is still saddled with huge economic, political […]
A professor of Geography at the Bayero University Kano, Prof. Adamu Tanko, on Monday, called for the integration of geography studies into primary school curriculum, to enhance knowledge of the environment and disaster management. Tanko made the call at the 60th annual conference of Association of Nigerian Geographers with the theme ‘Geography and Disaster Management’, […]
The United Nations Children Education Fund on Thursday said it welcomed the release of about Twenty-three boys and two girls from Nigerian Army administrative custody after they were cleared of suspected ties with armed groups. This brings the number of children released this year to 44, says UNICEF. “These are children taken away from their […]
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has condemned recent threats by an armed group to the Libyan Finance Ministry here. “This deplorable act constitutes a serious blow to the rule of law,’’ the UNSMIL said in a statement. “The mission expresses its full support to the competent authorities’ decision to identify and prosecute […]
Pop artiste and prison reform advocate, Yinka Lawanson, aka Lamboginny, has released the visuals for his activist single, ’Kirikiri Don Full’. The video, released on September 17, 2019, brings to life the message of the song, which draws attention to the deplorable state of prisons in Nigeria and the lack of justice that characterizes the […]
…It condemns release of 123 Northerners with motorcycles by Police, seeks state police Patrick Okohue The Lagos State House of Assembly yesterday raised concern about safety of Nigerians in the Diaspora and called on the Federal Government to take decisive actions on ensuring Nigerian Nationals in Diaspora are secured wherever they are and also see […]
Ukpono Ukpong – Abuja In a bid to raise the global level of ambition to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement as well as galvanise action that can limit climate change to at least 2°C, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the Federal Government to sign up the United Nation pact to […]
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), on Wednesday, said Nigeria ranked 11 among the 20 countries in the world with highest prevalence of child marriage. Edward Kallon, UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, said this at the ongoing UN Women Conference 2018 in Lagos. The four-day conference has […]
A non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Blossom Africa Initiative, has challenged well meaning Nigerians to key into the achievements of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations to take effect in Nigeria. The group, which said this when it took the SDGs campaigns to Agidingbin Primary School, Ikeja, when it donated free school uniforms […]
The United Nations Educational, Scientific Cultural Organisation, (UNESCO), Regional Director for West Africa and Country Representatives for Nigeria, Mr. Ydo Yao has applauded the commitment and support of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) towards human development and youth empowerment programmes in the Territory. The UNESCO Boss gave this commendation, when he paid a visit to […]
An anti terror group, the Coalition Against Terrorism (CATE) has urged the United Nations as well as the United States government to assist in the rescue of Leah Sharibu, the remaining Dapchi school girl abducted by Boko Haram. The group said it had learned that Boko Haram is demanding N100 billion for the release of […]
As we struggle to survive raging floods, the White House was this week busy, not with helping humans fight them, but employing intercontinental ballistic missiles to shoot down the United Nations Report that humans are a major contributory factor. The UN Report written by ninety-one authors and review editors from 40 countries, and, using more […]
June, 27th every year has been declared by the United Nations as World MSME Day. The MSME Day 2018 Slogan is Youth Dimension-centring on Youth Entrepreneurship and Youth Employment. It brings to the front burner “the strong contribution of business worldwide to livelihoods, communities and economies and the need to support MSMEs towards their success.” […]
The Chairman National Advisory Committee of the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) in Nigeria, Mrs. Ifeoma Anagbogu has said that a new dimension has been introduced in the role women can play in peace building in the country, Africa and the world. Mrs. Anagbogu who is also the permanent Secretary in the Ministry of […]
The United Nations (UN) has said that no fewer than 1.6 million people are killed annually by tuberculosis, noting the disease would lead to loss of $1 trillion in economic terms by the year 2050. UN Secretary-General, Secretary-General António Guterres, said at an interactive dialogue with civil society groups that social drivers of the disease […]
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank has written to the Secretary General of the United Nations Mr. Antonio Guterres, alleging that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, has been persecuting some perceived to oppose the government. The open letter released on Monday and titled “Persecution of Saraki and its implications […]