Posts on social media make the claim that United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has announced that the first “technical trial” for a COVID-19 vaccine will begin...
As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, it has somewhat reminded the world of the key importance of a category of people – the health workers, who...
Russia and Syria on Friday came under strong criticisms from western countries in the UN Security Council over the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in Syria...
The General Assembly has adopted a budget of $3.07bn for the United Nations in 2020. It followed the consideration of the report of the Assembly’s Fifth...
Nigerian public officials received an estimated N675bn in cash bribes this year, a new survey by the National Bureau of Statistics [NBS] and the United Nations...
A Kaduna man has been dragged before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court on an eight-count, bordering on conspiracy and criminal breach of...
The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has appointed Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, the president of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, and 25 other persons...
U.S. President Donald Trump says he raised the issue of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman when they met...
Aid workers said Cameroon is edging towards full-blown war, as the country got the crown for harbouring the world’s most neglected displacement crisis, arising from a...
Helping women find jobs or raise their incomes in Nigeria can put them at heightened risk of violent abuse by boyfriends, husbands and the public, a...
No fewer than 113 million people experienced high levels of food insecurity in the world’s most severe food crises in 2018, the Global Report on Food...
The Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations, Prof. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, has been re-elected Chair of the United Nations Special Committee on Peacekeeping knew as...
United Nations has estimated that about 39 million people are blind globally, while another 1.3 billion people live with some form of near vision impairment. The...
Former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan died on Saturday at the age of 80, his foundation said. In Geneva, the Kofi...
The United Nations has identified generous contributions and extortion as some of the means through which the Boko Haram terrorist group is being funded. This was...