The UN has announced that the world’s population is expected to reach eight billion on Nov. 15. The information is in a statement released on Monday in New York by the UN to mark the 2022 World Population Day (WPD). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that WPD...
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Terrorists of The Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) faction of the Boko Haram have attacked a convoy of four food trucks meant for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and resettled communities in Borno and intercepted four of them. According to Daily Trust, the attack, which occurred Thursday night...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum on Thursday affirmed that there is direct link between food transformation and the social problems of hunger, poverty, healthcare, insecurity and unemployment. Governor Zulum stated this during the North-East Sensitization Workshop on National Food System Transformation Pathways, which was...
The UN Chef de Cabinet, Courtenay Rattray, has said to end AIDS, beat COVID-19 and “stop the pandemics of the future”, the world needs to ensure global access to lifesaving health technologies. Rattray said this on Friday at UN headquarters in New York at a meeting of the General...
The global community on Wednesday June 8 celebrated the annual ritual tagged ‘world ocean day’. The celebration was first declared in 1992 following the United Nations, UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. The purpose of the Day is to inform the public of the impact...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu has hinted that the new education curriculum being developed will focus on skills and entrepreneurship in a bid to enhance the employability of graduates. This is even as stakeholders decried that schools are not providing students with the required...
The number of people facing hunger rose to 193 million last year as conflict, climate change and economic crises ravaged people’s livelihoods, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said Wednesday. While experts have warned that Russia’s war in Ukraine could cause famine, the FAO said in an annual report...
…To train 60 veterinarians to tackle animal, zoonotic diseases By BENJAMIN ORISEMEKE, Abuja – As part of its efforts to assist Nigeria in improving animal disease surveillance and reporting, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has presented a 2022 Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) work plan for Nigeria. This...
BY JOY ADARA, Abuja – Women and girls, especially in rural communities, continue to face the brunt of the climate crisis that exacerbates pre-existing inequalities, jeopardizes their food security and feeds instability and migration, warns the United Nations World Food Programme on International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day 2022 focuses...
BY SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The United Nations Information Center (UNIC) in collaboration with the Office of the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has organized a two day training workshop on SDGs for Borno State journalist.. Declaring open the two day training...
Former Governor of Anambra, Peter Obi has urged all tiers of government to see investment in education as a veritable tool in the fight against poverty, insecurity and other societal ills. This is contained in his message to mark the 2022 International Day of Education, which was issued on...
United Nations and its partners on Tuesday launched over $5 billion appeal fund to help Afghans in 2022 overcome the humanitarian crisis that emerged after the Taliban takeover. The UN in a statement said “the appeal was launched in the hope of shoring up collapsing basic services in Afghanistan,...
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...
Three Eritrean’s living in a refugee camp in Ethiopia’s Tigray region were killed in an airstrike on Wednesday, the UN says. Two of the dead were children. Several other people were injured in the attack on the Mai Aini camp. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, said...
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye (SAN), has called on the United Nations and the global community to unmask the owners of artificial legal entities in order to combat money laundering, Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) and hidden ill-gotten wealth....
US Embassy – A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one state or an international inter-governmental organization (such as the United Nations) present in another state to represent the sending state/organization officially in the receiving state. In practice, a diplomatic mission usually denotes the resident mission, namely the...
No fewer than 70 drivers working for the United Nations and international aid organisations were detained in northern Ethiopia, a UN spokesperson confirmed to dpa on Wednesday. The drivers were apprehended on Nov. 3, in the city of Semera in the Afar Region, the official said, adding that the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has hosted a send off dinner in respect of Edward Kallon who was the UN Residents Coordinator in Nigeria since 2016 and now transferred to Zimbabwe. Governor Zulum, who was represented by Borno’s Deputy Governor, Hon Umar Kadafur at...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Chairman, Cross River State Correspondents Chapel, Mrs Eme Offiong has called on media practitioners as well as employers, and the general public to always speak out for journalist during bad days, insisting that journalism is a service to the society. Mrs. Offiong stated this...
Multiple mediation efforts are underway one week after the military coup in Sudan, UN Special Representative for the country, Volker Perthes, told journalists in New York on Monday. Speaking from the capital, Khartoum, Perthes said the situation on the ground was “stable but very tense” in the wake of...