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12 aid workers were allegedly killed by terrorists in Nigeria in 2019 as stated by the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon. Speaking at a joint press conference over the weekend with the European Union Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenari and the...

The internally displaced people’s population in North-eastern Nigeria is expanding, according to a new United Nations’ report, spotlighting the unabating humanitarian disaster precipitated by the Boko Haram terrorism in the region. At the end of 2018, there were 2.2 million internally...

The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday in New York announced the appointment of His Royal Highness Muhammadu Sanusi II, Emir of Kano, as one of his new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Advocates for 2019-2020. A statement by UN quoted Guterres as saying that the...

The United Nations (UN) who lamented over increased Boko Haram attacks in the North-East region of Nigeria, has withdrawn 260 aid workers. The UN who lamented over the increased Boko Haram attacks which according to them has affected its humanitarian service delivery in the troubled region...

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...... Read more via Newtelegraph – https://ift.tt/2rjgnvG Get More Nigeria Metro News

As many as 85,000 infants under the age of five may have died from starvation or disease since 2015 in war-ravaged Yemen, humanitarian organisation Save the Children said on Wednesday. It said the estimate was based on data compiled by the United Nations, which has warned that..... Read more...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said it will require more than one term in office to fix Nigeria ... Read more via Olisa.tv News – https://ift.tt/2RnzhfR Get More Nigeria Political News

International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law, ISCL&RL, has recommended that if Veto Power must be retained at the United Nations Security Council, UNSC, then single veto power must be..... Read more via Vanguard Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2ONMbXT Get more World News

Burundi’s government has banned three United Nations human rights experts from entering the East African state, according to a letter released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Wednesday. Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2QoSLRv Get more World News

Here are ten (10) things you didn't know about him. 1. Kofi A. Annan was the 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations. 2. Kofi Annan joined the UN system in 1962 as an administrative and budget officer with the World Health Organization in Geneva. 3. He's the founder and chair of the Kofi...

Contrary to the claim by the Nigerian government through the Information Minister Lai Mohammed, the government paid a “large ransom” to free scores of female students kidnapped by the Boko Haram from their school in Dapchi, Yobe State, earlier this year, the United Nations has said. Over 100...

More than a quarter of a million people have fled a Russian-backed government onslaught on southern Syria, the United Nations said Monday, in the latest civilian exodus in the seven-year war. For nearly two weeks, regime forces and their Russian allies have... Read more via Channels...

Contract farming has been a central part of agriculture for decades. This method of farming is playing an increasingly crucial role in many developing and agrarian countries. Globally, contract farming is described by the... Read more via The Sun Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2tpKZ00 Get...

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) has called for attention to the plight of widows who are stigmatised, shunned and shamed following the death of their husbands. The UN Women, on the occasion of the 2018 International … Read more via...

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria a.i., Myrta Kaulard, has condemned the twin suicide attacks in Damboa town of Borno State. In a statement on Monday, Ms Kaulard noted that the attacks which occurred on Saturday left several people dead and many others injured.... Read more via...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Festus Keyamo, says Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is being haunted by its “atrocities”. Keyamo was ... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2J99F2C Get More Nigeria Political News

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 19, 2017. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an “independent and transparent investigation”...

A UN expert committee has announced that four countries could soon “graduate” from the ranks of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable nations. The four countries are: Bhutan, Kiribati, Sao Tome and Principe and the Solomon Islands, according to Jose Ocampo, chair of the Committee for...

Four UN peacekeepers were killed and four were wounded on Wednesday when a mine exploded under their vehicle in central Mali in a deliberate attack, the UN mission in the country said. Jihadists have ramped up their activities in central Mali in recent months, targeting domestic and foreign...

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Antonio Guterres on his appointment by the United Nations General Assembly as the next UN Secretary General, beginning from January 1, 2017. President Buhari believes that Guterres’ wealth of experience as a former Prime Minister of Portugal, head of...