Tag: United Nations
U.N. tells Saudi Arabia to end child stonings, executions
A UN human rights watchdog On Friday called on Saudi Arabia to end “severe” discrimination against girls and to repeal…
Breaking: UN suspends aid operations in Syria
The United Nations has suspended aid operations in Syria after a deadly attack on an aid convoy in rural Aleppo…
Nigerian women enter Italy for prostitution- UN
The United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said that about 3,600 Nigerian women arrived Italy by boat in…
Border Demarcation: Buhari pledges support for UN
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that his administration will abide by the decision of the International Court of Justice on…
Boko Haram attacks UN team, soldiers, many wounded
Nigerian Islamists group, Boko Haram made a daring move today by attacking a team of United Nations officials on their…
UN releases N3.7billion to IDPs
The United Nations Humanitarian Chief, Mr Stephen O’Brien has released about N3.7billion ($13million) as life-saving support to the 250,000 Internally…
Former UN secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali is dead–UN
The United Nations has on Tuesday in New York announced the death of the 93 years old former UN Secretary…
More terrorist groups to pledge allegiance to IS in 2016, says UN
Islamist sect, Boko Haram and 33 other militant groups from around the world have reportedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic…
Why we assist women entrepreneurs – Torera Abiola
Torera Abiola, the late Chief MKO Abiola’s niece, is an ambassador on Women’s Entrepreneurship Day (WED) organisation, a group supported…
Refugee situation on Lesbos has worsened–UN
The United Nations said on Friday that unabated influx of refugees onto Greek island of Lesbos had made the humanitarian…
United Nations taps African oil, mineral wealth to fight hunger
Four African countries have agreed to divert a portion of revenue from oil, gold and other resources to an innovative…
150 world leaders adopt 2030 agenda for SDGs – Ki-Moon
No fewer than 150 World leaders on Friday adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced…
UN Sec Gen meets governors amid tight security
The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, on Sunday in Abuja, began his visit to Nigeria with a meeting with state…
Global conflicts displace 60m people – UN
Almost 60 million people worldwide were forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution at the end of last year, the highest…
Boko Haram: 2,100 victims to benefit from UN rebuilding of North East
The UN has commenced the first phase of providing livelihoods and early recovery support scheme to 700 women and youths…
UN optimistic Buhari can crush Boko Haram
GENEVA, May 28 (Reuters) – Nigerian President-elect Muhammadu Buhari’s promised campaign to defeat Boko Haram could drive more militants over…
UN decries Boko Haram’s sexual abuse of captives
Ms Zainab Bangura, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, on Wednesday decried reported rape and…
UN ‘strongly urges’ Nigeria not to postpone elections again
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly urged Nigeria on Friday to avoid another delay in holding elections and expressed concern over…
UN aid workers to assist victims of Boko Haram
The United Nations refugee agency on Friday said tens of thousands of Nigerian refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) were…
No To UN Peacekeeping In Nigeria
Reports of the visit of the Special Representative of the Secretary General to West Africa to Abuja indicate that the…
Rebels slaughtered hundreds in S.Sudan – UN
Rebels in South Sudan slaughtered at least 353 civilians in April last year, including people sheltering in a mosque, hospital…
Food wasted enough to feed 2bn people, says UN
A United Nations report says that the world wastes enough food to feed an estimated two billion people. This was…
$1 billion needed to fight Ebola – UN
Nearly $1.0 billion dollars is needed to fight the Ebola outbreak raging in west Africa, the United Nations said Tuesday,…
Reliable energy critical to Africa’s development – UN
Dr Kandeh Yumkela, Special Representative and Chief Executive of the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative of the United Nations, said…
UN vows not to abandon Ebola-hit Liberia
The United Nations has vowed its peacekeepers will not abandon Liberia and will “stay the course” despite the Ebola epidemic…
500,000 displaced by Ukraine conflict – UN
Fighting in Ukraine has forced over half a million people to flee their homes, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday,…
Death toll in east Ukraine conflict nears 2,600 – UN
The conflict raging in eastern Ukraine has killed nearly 2,600 people, the United Nations said Friday, voicing concern about atrocities…
UN chief slams ‘brutal’ IS killings in Iraq
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday slammed “brutal killings of civilians” by Islamic State jihadists in northern Iraq,…
UN warns of S.Sudan famine after aid helicopter downed
War-torn South Sudan faces possible famine early next year, the UN chief in the country warned Thursday, as aid workers…
UN warns of food crisis in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone
The United Nations warned Tuesday of a looming food crisis in eastern Sierra Leone, under lockdown since the Ebola-hit west…