United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has voiced serious concerns over the sweeping cuts to U.S. foreign assistance, warning that the reductions could prove disastrous for vulnerable...
A new United Nations report has accused Bangladesh’s former government of orchestrating systematic violence against protesters in an effort to retain power, warning that the actions...
India has renewed its call for significant reforms in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), with Dammu Ravi, Secretary of Economic Relations at India’s Ministry of...
A new report from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) projects that Nigeria will experience a sharp rise in food insecurity, with 33 million people...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday urged the United Nations Secretary-General to relocate peacekeepers stationed in southern Lebanon, citing concerns that Hezbollah is using them...
A recent United Nations report reveals that criminal networks in Southeast Asia are heavily using the messaging app Telegram, significantly altering the dynamics of organized crime....
Nigeria on Sunday demanded a seat in the United Nations Security Council. The Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru, made the call in his address at the...
The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday lifted the arms embargo on the Central African Republic (CAR) government forces. The Council, however, urged all nations to...
CLAIM: The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs revised its fatality figures from the war in Gaza, reducing the figure. VERDICT: Misleading FULL TEXT...
President Bola Tinubu on Monday called for collaboration against the proliferation of arms and light weapons in Africa. President Tinubu, who expressed concern over the rising...
The United Nations migration agency has launched its first global annual appeal on Monday, requesting nearly $8 billion for this year alone to manage the growing...
The International Labour Organization (ILO) cast a cautious shadow over the global job market outlook on Wednesday, predicting a slight increase in unemployment in 2024 despite...
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has accused both Israel and Palestine militant group, Hamas, of committing war crimes in the past month...
The United Nations has suspended all humanitarian operations in Niger Republic following the coup on Wednesday that removed President Mohamed Bazoum. The UN Office for the...
Nigerian President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Saturday in Nairobi, Kenya, called on African leaders to respect democracy, rule of law, and ensure political stability. Tinubu, who...
The United Nations has warned that conflict-torn Sudan is on the brink of a “full-scale civil war” that could destabilise the entire region. The warning came...
A report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), has put the number of out of school children in Nigeria under President Muhammadu...
Nigerians have taken to social media to react to the United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s verdict on the Leader of the...
Without a doubt, Nigeria is in the grips of a security crisis. Almost every day, from East to North, South to West, a report of a...
More than four million Nigerians will face severe food insecurity and hunger crisis in the North-East region in the coming season, according to the United Nations...
A United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) report on Tuesday said nearly 3.9 million refugees have so far fled Ukraine since the invasion of the...
The United Nations says it has so far recorded 1,581 civilian casualties, including 579 deaths and 1,002 injured, since Russian forces invaded Ukraine on February 24....
A report released by the United Nations on Sunday has revealed that the Taliban regime and its allies have killed more than 100 former Afghan government...
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has disclosed that over 50,000 farmers who have been resettled to their communities by his government are still in need...
The outgoing United Nations Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, said on Saturday about 11 million Nigerians need humanitarian assistance. Kallon stated this during a farewell...
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...
Renowned environmentalist, Bjorn Lomborg, has called on world leaders to honour the 2015 agreement to double green energy research and development by 2020 and stop paying...
A United Nations report released on Tuesday has warned that over 100 million extremely poor people in Africa are threatened by the accelerating climate change that...
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, pledged that Nigeria will continue to invest massively in food security as a way to enhance agricultural productivity in the country....
[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...
The Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS) will today, September 14, begin a protest at the United Nations to press home their demands for a...
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has called on the United Nations (UN) and other world bodies, to put pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari, to...
Due to the widespread abductions of schoolchildren across Nigeria, the Nigeria-British Forum has appealed to the United Nations over tackling the scourge. This appeal was made...
A group, the Yoruba Appraisal Forum (YAF) on Monday, petitioned the United Nations over a plan by the umbrella body of Yoruba self-determination groups, Ilana Omo...
The leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) Ralph Uwazuruike, has stated that there will be no peace in Nigeria...
The United Nations has reported that the COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the challenges of making the world meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Between 119 to...
The Federal Government has called on the United Nations (UN) to forge a stronger collaboration with Nigeria to improve the country’s food system. The appeal was...
Rebel leaders in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region have vowed to continue fighting despite a ceasefire declaration by the federal government. The dissidents, in a statement on...
The United Nations (UN) has implored Nigerian youths to work towards the unity of the country rather than resorting to criticisms. This call was made over...
The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) an agency of the United Nations (UN), says the insurgency in the North-East has displaced about 65,800 farmers in Borno...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a complaint against the Federal and Kogi State Governments at the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention...
The United Nations has warned of serious famine in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region as a result of the ongoing conflict. UN’s top humanitarian official, Mark Lowcock,...
The European Union (EU) says it has imposed sanctions on 10 of Myanmar’s military leaders, as well as two giant military conglomerates, in its toughest measures...
The United Nations has stated its fears over the escalating violence and threat to lives in the North-West region of Nigeria as thousands of people flee...
Terrorists believed to be members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), have overrun a United Nations base in Borno State in a midnight attack...
Emerge Women, a civil society organisation, says the commendation of the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the...
A staff of the United Nations (UN) identified as Abubakar Garba Idris, has been reportedly kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists who were dressed in military uniforms...
Three Burundian peacekeepers have been killed in the Central African Republic (CAR), by unidentified “armed combatants” as rebels in the war torn country called off truce...
The United Nations (UN) has revealed that no fewer than 6.5 million South Sudanese face severe food insecurity in the country with the numbers projected to...
The United Nations (UN) has forecasted that Africa’s economy will slow by 4.1 per cent this year and rebound by 5% in 2021 as the coronavirus...
