Tag: UN
Ensure peaceful and credible elections in 2019, U.N Chief urges Nigeria
The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has called for peaceful, inclusive and credible elections in Nigeria. Guterres made the call…
SERAP drags Nigerian Govt to UN over failure to end ASUU strike
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has sent an urgent appeal to two UN special rapporteurs, urging them to…
DRC General elections: U.N Secretary-General sues for peace
The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on political actors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to work…
UN, U.S. condemn attack on Libya’s foreign ministry
The United Nations and the United States have strongly condemned a terrorist attack on the Libya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs…
UN General Assembly endorses Global Compact for Migration
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday in New York endorsed the adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and…
30m babies on the brink of death – UN
Nearly 30 million babies are born too soon, too small or become sick, requiring specialised care to survive beyond the…
One in every nine people suffers hunger globally -UN Deputy Secretary Gen
UN Deputy Secretary-General, Ms Amina Mohammed, has told a top panel on humanitarian aid that maintaining a “fire-fighting approach is…
Climate Change: We are running out of time, we must agree on action now -UN Secretary Gen.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said it will “not only be immoral, but suicidal”, should the world body fail to…
Sanction erring peace keepers, Nigeria urges UN
Nigeria has condemned acts of crime by UN officials saying, it would continue to advocate that officials found culpable of…
164 UN member-states unanimously adopt Global Migration Compact
A total of 164 UN member-countries attending the two-day Intergovernmental Conference on Migration on Monday in Marrakech, Morocco, unanimously adopted…
$1trn paid in bribes, $2.6trn stolen annually – UN
The UN says one trillion dollars are paid in bribes annually, while another 2.6 trillion are stolen, all due to…
UN General Assembly Rejects U.S. resolution condemning Hamas
A General Assembly resolution put forward by the United States condemning the activities of Hamas and other militant groups in…
UN condemns gang-rape of 125 women, girls in South Sudan
The UN has condemned a series of brutal sexual assaults on 125 women and girls, travelling on the road to…
UN scribe mourns Bush
UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has expressed sadness at the news of the death of former U.S. President, George H.W. Bush,…
UN chief condemns students’ abduction in Cameroon
United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has condemned Monday’s reported kidnapping of students and staff of a secondary school in Bamenda,…