Dozens of people are feared dead after two migrant boats overturned off the coast of Djibouti, according to the United Nations on Wednesday. The boats left Yemen with 310 people on board, the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said in a post on social media platform X on...
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By ABIEMWENSE MORU, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) – Access to safe water is the most basic human need for health and well-being, according to the United Nations (UN). It says billions of people will lack access to this basic service in 2030 unless progress quadruples. The World Bank estimates that 70 million Nigerians...
Food System/Nutrition Specialist at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, Mr Ibrahim Ishaka, has revealed that Nigeria loses around 50% of its agricultural products along the food supply chain. Ishaka disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines...
The First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, has decried the staggering loss of 125,000 lives annually due to Tuberculosis (TB) describing the disease as a relentless public health crisis. According to a statement by her Media Aide, Busola Kukoyi, on Wednesday in Abuja, Tinubu said this during a side event...
President Bola Tinubu has called for debt forgiveness for Nigeria and other developing countries from creditors and multilateral financial institutions. Tinubu made the call while addressing world leaders during the General Debate of the ongoing 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the UN headquarters in...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday, called for finance, climate action and peace to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the 2030 deadline. Guterres said this in his remarks to a high-level event at UN Headquarters aimed at shining a spotlight on the 17 Goals, which include ending...
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mohammed Fall, has announced 6 million dollars from the Nigeria Humanitarian Fund to support flood victims in Borno. Alau Dam, located just over 10 miles to the south of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno, collapsed on Sept. 10, forcing hundreds of thousands from...
The 79th session of the UN General Assembly opened on Tuesday in New York, with incoming President Philemon Yang outlining a vision of unity in diversity. Yang also called for deeper international cooperation to tackle global challenges, including climate change, escalating conflict, and a slowdown in sustainable development. Yang...
By ESTHER ALEXANDER, Abuja – The State of Palestine has called on the international community and the United Nations to launch an impartial international investigation into the heinous crimes and grave violations committed against Palestinian detainees and prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons and detention camps. “The televised war...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The United Nations on Monday reaffirmed its commitment to support Borno State Government in its restoration drive resulting from the over one decade of destruction by Boko Haram insurgents. The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mohammed Mustapha Malik Fall, who...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Amid rising inflation and high food prices exacerbated by market speculations, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced it is reviewing its local food procurement and will buy food in Nigeria only in stable market conditions. Recalled that last week, a...
The United Nations is seeking to raise 4.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2024 for Ukraine’s conflict-torn communities and refugees. The Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, said this in a statement. According to the statement, the UN plans to attract 3.1 billion dollars from...
By THELMA CHIOMA THOMAS-ABEKU (Lead Writer) – The launch of the Noma Centre Abuja is set to transform medical care for those affected by the devastating noma disease. The centre is more than just a treatment centre, it represents a symbol of hope, compassion, and community support, offering free services to...
On Sunday December 10, 2023, Nigeria joined other countries across the globe to celebrate Human Rights Day (HRD), a ritual of the sort celebrated annually around the world on 10 December every year. Historically, the date was chosen to honor the United Nation General Assembly’s adoption and proclamation,...
The United Nation on Thursday said that around 89, 000 women and girls were killed in 2022 across the globe. According to UN report, this is the highest annual figure recorded in the past two decades. “The alarming number of femicides is a stark reminder that humanity is...
The catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip grew worse on Tuesday as much of the focus remained on grim accounts about the state of the collapsed health system after almost six weeks of war between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers. UN Secretary General António Guterres said he...
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on Monday joined the UN family in mourning 89 staff from its agency that assisted Palestine refugees (UNRWA), who were killed in Gaza. Guterres told journalists at UN Headquarters in New York that the Gaza crisis was more than humanitarian crisis: “The nightmare in...
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu is set to address world leaders at the ongoing 78th session of the high-level General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the UN headquarters in New York. The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Tinubu, in...
UN on Monday paid tribute to the victims of Malaysia Arlines flight MH17 nine years after the tragic plane crash occurred in eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by Russian-controlled forces on July 17,...
UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres has said that poverty, inequality and exclusion are fueling terrorism, which is posing complex and constant threat to peace and security.anto Guterres said this at the opening of the UN Third Counter-Terrorism week on Monday in New York. Addressing the delegates “at the forefront...