World Bank Group President Jim Yong-Kim on Thursday said the bank was working toward raising 1.6 billion dollars to build social protection systems to end food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa and Yemen. In a statement made available to newsmen by the Head of Communications, World Bank Nigeria in Abuja, Mrs Olufunke Olufon, Yong-Kim said about […]
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The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has said that refugees were not criminals and should not be treated as such. The UNHCR in its reaction to the new travel ban by U.S. President, Donald Trump, said that the decision would worsen the woes of refugees around the World. “Refugees are ordinary people forced to flee […]
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President Donald Trump signed a revised executive order for a U.S. travel ban on Monday, leaving Iraq off the list of targeted countries, White House Senior Administration Officials said. The U.S. president’s first immigration order was blocked by the courts. The new order will impose a 90-day travel ban to the U.S. on citizens of […]
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The UN Security Council (UNSC) has described the insurgency crisis in the North-East Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin region as the world’s largest and most neglected humanitarian crisis the world has ever witnessed. Mr Mathew Rycroft, the President of the UNSC for March and Leader of the UN delegation to Nigeria, stated this at […]
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The UN Security Council says that the only solution to the Boko Haram terrorism in the Northeastern Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin is the economic development of the region. Matthew Rycroft, the leader of a UN Security Council delegation, said this while speaking with journalists shortly after a visit to Maiduguri. “We are convinced […]
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Award winning Nigerian Author, Chimamanda Ngozi- Adichie has been elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters as a foreign honorary member. According to a press release by the Academy on http://artsandletters.org, the honorary members will be inducted at the annual induction in May. This induction will make Chimamanda the second Nigerian to be […]
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Egypt’s top appeals court on Thursday issued a final verdict, clearing former president Hosni Mubarak of complicity in the killings of protesters in the 2011 uprising that ended his rule. The verdict was issued by the Court of Cassation, putting an end to a tortuous legal process that started over five years ago. Mubarak’s loyalists […]
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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Al Hussein, has reiterated his call for the abolition of death penalty saying its subjecting convicts to mental anguish constitutes human rights violations. Zeid made the call on Wednesday at the opening of the biennial high-level panel discussion on the death penalty, which was organized as part […]
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Niger Delta militants on Wednesday threatened to blow up Multichoice (DSTV), MTN, Shoprite and 16 other major South African investments in Nigeria if the Federal Government fails to shut them down within one month. This move is believed to be a reaction to the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and their businesses in South Africa. In […]
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Two people were wounded when a weapon was accidentally fired Tuesday as French President François Hollande was giving a speech in the western city of Villognon, the mayor told CNN. Hollande was not injured, but two other people were, Mayor Claude Guitton said. Their injuries were not life-threatening. According to CNN affiliate BFM-TV, a local […]
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