Not less than 14 UN peacekeepers have been killed and 53 wounded in an attack in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to BBC, the UN’s Monusco mission said the peacekeepers were attacked by suspected rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in North Kivu province. Five Congolese soldiers also died. UN […]
Continue Reading
The United Nations on Tuesday said it will help about 40,000 refugees who fled Cameroon’s violence-hit regions into Nigeria. The UN refugee agency and Nigerian authorities have so far registered some 2,000 Cameroonians who have fled into southeastern Nigeria since October 1, while another 3,000 were awaiting registration. “We are preparing to help up to […]
Continue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Nigeria after attending the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), in New York. The president, thereafter left for London. On Friday, Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and publicity, had said his principal would return to the country on Monday. However, he did […]
Continue Reading
U.S. President Donald Trump has taken his threats against North Korea over its nuclear challenge to another level on Tuesday, threatening to “totally destroy’’ the country of 26 million people and mocking its leader, Kim Jong Un, as a “rocket man.’’ In a hard-edged speech to the UN General Assembly, Trump offered a grim portrait […]
Continue Reading
Addressing world leaders at the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari says the frontiers of democracy, good governance is expanding in Africa. He urged the international community to come up with strategies and mobilise effort to stop the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) from […]
Continue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari has left Nigeria for New York in the US, where he will join other world leaders at the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly. Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina, had disclosed that the president’s travel plans on Friday, saying “President Buhari will transit through London on his way back to the […]
Continue Reading
The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has named Tunde Fowler, Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, as a member of the International Experts Committee on Tax Matters. The committee has 25 members worldwide. Mr. Fowler’s appointment was conveyed by Bolaji Akinremi, Minister Plenipotentiary of Nigeria Permanent Mission, New York, in a mail to the […]
Continue Reading
The United Nations Security Council has unanimously condemned North Korea’s firing of a ballistic missile over Japan on Tuesday, describing it as an outrageous threat and demanded that Pyongyang not launch any more missiles. the 15-member Security Council said in a statement that it was of “vital importance” that North Korea take immediate, concrete actions […]
Continue Reading
The UN on Tuesday kicked off World Breastfeeding Week, stressing that although breastfeeding has cognitive and health benefits for infants and mothers, investment shortcomings impede the practice. The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus, said: “Breastfeeding gives babies the best possible start in life. “Breastmilk works like a baby’s first vaccine, protecting […]
Continue Reading
Ms Amina Mohammed, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, and three other UN envoys, would visit Acting President Yemi Osinbajo as part of their current trips to Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Mohammed would be joined by the Executive Director of UN Women, Dr Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka; the UN Special Representative on Sexual […]
Continue Reading