UN Secretary-General, António Guterres has described the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) report as a “chronicle of climate chaos” which details the catastrophic speed of climate change, which is devastating lives and livelihoods on every continent. The WMO, in its latest provisional 2022 State of the Global Climate in 2022,...
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DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has restated the commitment of the Nigerian government towards ensuring that there is a rapid and strategic transition to renewable energy in response to the world-wide efforts for the preservation of the environment. President Buhari spoke on Wednesday in New York at...
The African Union on Saturday hailed a landmark deal between Ukraine and Russia that will allow Kyiv to resume exports of grain through the Black Sea and relieve a global food crisis. Ukraine’s farms are a major source of grain for the world market, in particular in the Middle...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has addressed participants at the third edition of Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development which held on Tuesday in Cairo, Egypt. The Aswan Forum was launched in February 2019 by the Egyptian Government “in its capacity as...
The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, is currently at the UN House in Abuja, the nation’s capital. His visit to the UN House comes a day after the UN scribe arrived in Nigeria on a two-day official visit – the first since he assumed office. Guterres, who was in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has called on The United Nations (UN) to advocate for the recharging of Lake Chad Basin for human activities as there is much potentials in the region to bring back livelihood support of the residents. Governor Zulum also appealed...
The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres has made an appeal for $1.7 billion dollars to provide urgently needed assistance to help refugee exodus from Ukraine. The secretary general, on Tuesday, at the inauguration of the flash appeal said rockets had been “raining down” on Ukraine’s cities and hundreds of people...
The consequences of colonialism are “still being felt to this day”, the UN Chef de Cabinet, Courtenay Rattray, told the Special Committee on Decolonisation on Friday. Speaking on behalf of Secretary-General António Guterres, he also reminded the participants of the challenges which face the so-called Non-Self-Governing Territories which remain...
The COVID-19 pandemic could reverse decades of global progress in stamping out Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), UN agencies warn ahead of the International Day to eliminate the harmful practice. International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM is a UN-sponsored annual awareness day that takes place on Feb. 6 as...
At least 70 people were killed in an air strike on a prison as Yemen’s long-running conflict suffered a dramatic escalation Friday that drew condemnation from UN chief Antonio Guterres. The Huthi rebels released gruesome video footage showing bodies in the rubble and mangled corpses from the attack, which...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The United Nations (UN) has condemned the recent attacks that claimed the lives of scores of residents in Zamfara State. The UN Secretary-General, Mr Antonio Guterres strongly condemned the appalling attacks in a statement on Monday by his spokesman, Stephane Dujarric. Mr. Guterres also...
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on Sunday mourned the death of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and retired Archbishop of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu, who died at the age of 90. In a statement issued by his spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, the secretary-general said that he was saddened by Tutu’s death. He...
The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Tuesday expressed concern over the unfolding security situation in the capital, Tripoli, where forces affiliated with different armed groups have been deploying. The development came as Libyans awaited news about the postponement of long-promised landmark elections, due to take place on...
UN Secretary António Guterres on Saturday received the Lamp of Peace award , a major honour from the Catholic Church, which he said recognises the work of UN personnel “striving for peace around the world”. Reminding that after the horrors of World War in the 20th Century, “the UN...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged the Central African Republic (CAR) government to spare no effort in investigating the “unacceptable attack” which a presidential guard unleashed on a bus in the fleet of the UN mission in the country, MINUSCA. Ten unarmed Egyptian “blue helmets”, who were newly deployed...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged global leaders to back the UN strategy to make vaccine equity a reality by accelerating efforts and ensuring maximum vigilance . defeat the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Guterres made the call in a statement just as the world passed yet another milestone of five million...