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The Presidency on Wednesday held a valedictory session conducted in honour of outgoing Minister of Environment Amina Mohammed. She was recently appointed as the UN Deputy Secretary-General by by incoming UN Secretary-General António Guterres. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN a...

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS , the African Union, AU and the United Nations, UN on Saturday night issued a joint statement as former Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh left the country. Joint Declaration by the Economic Community of West African States, the African...

The United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement have asked the Nigerian government to ensure the unfortunate incident of Tuesday where dozens of civilians were killed by a military bomb does not reoccur. In a statement on Wednesday, the UN also called on the...

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary Executions, Dr. Agnes Callamard, has announced that the organization will be investigating the extrajudicial killings in Southern Kaduna. The UN decided to investigate after a petition sent in by the Socio-Economic Rights and...

Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima is not happy with the conduct of aid agencies in the state. Addressing journalists in Maiduguri on Tuesday, Governor Shettima said, “We have the list of all NGOs operating in this state; apart from the officially functioning NGOs. Some of the United...

United States President-elect Donald Trump has launched a fresh accusations against the United Nations Wednesday, saying the world body had not lived up to its potential and failed to solve global problems. “The UN had such tremendous potential. (It is) not living up to its potential,” Trump...

Antonio Guterres has taken the oath of office as the United Nations’ new secretary-general on Monday during a formal ceremony at the General Assembly. The former prime minister of Portugal pledged to “exercise in all loyalty, discretion and conscience” his duties as UN chief when he takes over...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has appointed a Nigerian, Dr. Olufemi Elias as UN Assistant Secretary General and Registrar of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT). Dr. Elias will replace John Hocking of Australia. The MICT was established by the United...

President Muhammadu Buhari has accused the United Nations and other private humanitarian groups of hyping the situation in the North-east. President Buhari made the accusation two days after the United Nations warned that more than five million victims of Boko Haram face serious food...

Antonio Guterres, the former Prime Minister of Portugal is expected to become the next secretary general of the United Nations, diplomats have revealed. Mr Guterres, who led the UN refugee agency for 10 years, was strongly tipped to be appointed to the post. Russia's UN ambassador Vitaly...

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on Saturday said that African countries may soon pull out of the United Nations. Mugabe made the disclosure when he got back to his country after the 71st United Nations General Assembly. He said African countries will pull out of the UN if the United...

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The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has pledged to send a special envoy to the Nigerian Young Professionals Forum (NYPF) Summit scheduled to take place in New York on September 24. The action special envoy is expected to assist with credible projects that could potentially elevate...

A United Nations' report has stated that Nigeria is deeply divided along ethnic, religious, political and social lines, according to a research it said it carried out. The report was based on Nigeria’s Common Country Analysis, CCA, Vanguard reports. “Nigeria is a deeply divided society...

President Rodrigo Duterte threatened on Sunday to withdraw the Philippines from the United Nations, as he launched another profanity-laced tirade against the organisation for criticising his bloody war on crime. More than 1,500 people have been killed since Duterte took office and immediately...

The United Nations has temporarily suspended aid deliveries in Borno State, after a humanitarian convoy was attacked, the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF said on Thursday. Reuters reported that UNICEF said in a statement that unknown assailants attacked the convoy on Thursday as it returned to...

The United Nations humanitarian chief, Stephen O’Brien has announced the release of $13 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund to provide life-saving assistance for victims of Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria’s north-east. According to the UN, an estimated 250,000 people are in need...

The number of people displaced by conflict is at the highest level ever recorded, the United Nations refugee agency has said. It estimated that 65.3 million people were either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced at the end of 2015, an increase of 5 million in a year. This...

Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, and Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, have pleaded with the United Nations, UN and other world leaders to divide Nigeria into six geo-political zones as a permanent solution to the myriad of problems facing the nation. In a...

According to a report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Uganda has been praised to be the best country for those seeking asylum because of its welcoming policies. In a recent report by BBC, there are over half a million refugees in Uganda. Many of them are settled in...