By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – The Nigerian Government and the United Nations (UN), have launched the 2025 Lean Season Response Plan for Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY) states in north-east Nigeria. The Plan seeks US$159 million for urgent nutrition, food, and health interventions and other life-saving assistance for 2 million people...
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Top United Nations (UN) officials on Monday in New York called for urgent action to rescue the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and revive international cooperation. Speaking at the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) annual forum on financing for development, they warned that a staggering 4 trillion dollars annual...
By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – With the tightened Israeli blockade on Gaza now in its second month, top officials of the United Nations have appealed to world leaders to act – firmly, urgently and decisively – to ensure the basic principles of international humanitarian law are upheld. The appeal...
The complaint laid by Senator Natsha Akpoti-Uduaghan at the United Nations Inter parliamentary conference in New York on Tuesday has continued to attract reactions. The Kogi Lawmaker had taken her case before the global institution for them to prevail over what she says is an injustice meted on her....
The UN food agency, World Food Programme (WFP), has said it urgently requires $620 million to ensure continued support to crisis affected people across the Sahel and in Nigeria over the next six months. The UN food agency, in a statement on Friday, warned that potentially life-saving food and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In the wake of the devastating floods that hit Borno State in September 2024, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has offered a $1 million contribution from its Special Relief Fund to support emergency food response for flood-affected communities in Borno State, North East, Nigeria....
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has budgeted 2.5 billion dollars in the 2023 to-2027 Nigeria Country Strategy Plans (CSP) geared towards achieving zero hunger and improved nutrition across the country. Head of Programme, WFP, Mr Seriene Loum, said this at the Co-creation workshop organised by the organisation...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has announced an increase in funding to support child nutrition initiatives in the state. This is an effort to combat food insecurity and malnutrition, particularly among children under five. Governor Zulum made the announcement during a high-level roundtable discussion...
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order withdrawing Washington from a number of United Nations bodies, including its Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and setting up a broader review of US funding for the multilateral organization. The executive order said it withdrew Washington from UNHRC and the...
At least 700 people have been killed since Sunday in intense fighting in Goma, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, a UN spokesman said Friday. Rwandan-backed armed group M23 has seized Goma, the biggest city in the country’s east, and is advancing south as...
The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), said no fewer than 5,601 people were killed in gang violence in Haiti in 2024, appealing for greater efforts by the authorities and the international community to address the root causes. These deaths represent an increase of over 1,000 in the total killings...
The United States on Wednesday vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution that demanded an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. In spite of having secured 14 votes in favour, the draft resolution put forward by the 10 elected members of the Security Council (E10), failed to...
By ESTHER ALEXANDER, Abuja – A devastating humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Gaza, with the death toll surpassing 42,227 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and 98,464 injured. The Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria, Abdullah M. Abu Shawesh, in a statement onSunday, said the occupied West Bank has seen 11,300 detentions,...
By ESTHER ALEXANDER, Abuja – The Palestinian Authority has called on the United Nations to form an international investigation committee to investigate and hold accountable all those who committed genocide and war crimes before, on, and after October 7. This request comes after the recent escalation of violence in...
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...
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...