A yet to be identified Nigerian UN peacekeeper has been killed and another injured by unidentified assailants in Timbuktu, in northern Mali. A separate incident in...
Professor Tijjani Mohammad Bande is the new President of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. The outgoing president, H.E María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés disclosed this on...
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 UN came together in sadness and solidarity on Friday to honour its 21 staff members, who died on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight which crashed...
Nigeria has assumed the Chairmanship of the African Group at the United Nations for the month of March 2019, succeeding the Republic of Benin. The Nigerian...
The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed grave concerns over plans by Cameroon to evict thousands of Nigerian refugees to Borno. UNHCR said it...
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), on Wednesday, said Nigeria ranked 11 among the 20 countries in the...
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...
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued “a red alert for the world” in the New Year. In his New Year message, Guterres expressed regret...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has been appointed to the United Nations (UN) High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation along with 17 other current and former global leaders....
This is the full text of President Muhammadu Buhari’s address to the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, as posted by...
The United Nations expressed concern with the ultimatum issued by some youths in the North. “We have to work together to resolve peacefully any concerns that...
The former Hon Minister of Environment, Amina J. Mohammed under President Muhammadu Buhari, has officially resumed work at the United Nations Headquarters.
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Thursday, congratulated Hon minister of Environment, Amina J. Mohammed on her appointment as the United Nations (UN) Deputy Secretary General. This was...
October 11, 2016 is the International Day of the Girl child. The commemoration is a a United Nations led initiative supporting the more than 1.1 billion girls worldwide...