The Deputy UN Secretary-General designate, Ms Amina Mohammed, has said her priority will be the development of Nigeria and Africa as a whole. Mohammed stated this on Monday in Abuja at a dinner organised in her honour by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on her appointment as Deputy UN Secretary-General Designate. New UN Secretary-General António […]
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The destructive Boko Haram insurgency group is currently plagued by financial difficulties, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, has said. Feltman stated this while briefing the Security Council on the UN Secretary-General’s Fourth Report on the threat the group poses to international peace and security efforts to “check and roll it back” on […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Minister of Environment minister, Amina Mohammed , has been confirmed by the New UN Secretary-General António Guterres, as his Deputy Secretary-General. Guterres made the announcement through the spokesman of the Secretary-General, Mr Stephane Dujarric. The Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York, reports that Guterres also announced the duo of […]
Continue ReadingThe UN Secretary-General-designate, António Guterres, on Monday, December 12, took oath of office as the ninth Secretary-General of the UN, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The President of the General Assembly, Peter Thomas, administered the oath to Mr. Guterres in the presence of the 15 members of the Security Council and other members of […]
Continue ReadingThe UN Security Council has asked outgoing Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to carry out a peaceful and orderly transition of power to the President-elect, Mr Adama Barrow. In a press statement issued on Saturday, the 15-member Council “strongly condemned the outgoing Gambian President’s rejection of the official election results proclaimed by the country’s Independent Electoral […]
Continue ReadingThe UN has launched a record $2.7 billion humanitarian appeal as 2017 assistance for the Sahel region hit by Boko Haram as poverty, conflict and climate change will leave 15 million people across belt in need of life-saving. Around 40 per cent of the money will be used to help some seven million people in […]
Continue ReadingThe Presidency has dismissed reports by some aid agencies that a good number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria might die due to mass starvation. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, dismissed the reports in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday. […]
Continue ReadingSpeaking ahead of the 2016 World AIDS Day, outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that the organisation is working toward ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. “The United Nations is working worldwide to end AIDS by 2030,” Ban said on Monday in New York in his message for World AIDS Day, observed on Dec. […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari will lead Nigeria’s delegates to the 71st UN General Assembly (UNGA) scheduled to begin at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama, has said.Onyeama, who made the fact known in Abuja on Friday at a news conference, said the president would be discussing series of issues […]
Continue ReadingThe United Nations (UN) has raised alarm over the illicit proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) in Nigeria with over 350 million and 70 per cent of estimated 500 million of such weapons said to be circulating in West Africa domiciled in the country. The Director of United Nations Regional Centre for Peace […]
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