The United Nations, United States of America and Amnesty International have reacted to the recommendations of the Lagos State panel of enquiry which indicted the Nigerian Army and the police for killing peaceful protesters on...
Nigerian-born Dapo Akande, a professor of public international law at the University of Oxford, has been elected into the International Law Commission (ILC). The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) announced the development on Friday. Akande was...
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to take proactive steps aimed at preventing coups in the sub-region. Represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Buhari spoke at a virtual...
The Federal Government has rejected Sunday’s overthrow of the Alpha Condé regime in Guinea. Members of an elite military corp led by Mamady Doumbouya, a colonel, had opened fire on the presidential palace in the capital,...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday that 950 Nigerian pupils have been abducted from their schools by gunmen in the last six months. In a statement issued yesterday in New York, United States,...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the federal government’s commitment to sustainable food systems is a key strategy for eradicating poverty across Nigeria. He spoke on Tuesday at the opening of the National Consolidatory Dialogue on the...
The U.N. General Assembly unanimously elected Antonio Guterres to a second term as secretary-general on Friday for another five years at the helm of the 193-member organization. Ambassadors in the assembly chamber burst into applause as...
The Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast, which is in its 12th year, has claimed 37,000 lives and displaced 2.2 million people. United Nations (UN) Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Edward Kallon, disclosed this at the opening...
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has confirmed an attack on its facility in Damasak, Borno State on Saturday. Humanitarian Coordinator and head of the UN mission in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, confirmed...
Federal Government, in collaboration with some United Nations agencies, on Tuesday unveiled plans to raise the sum of $1 billion to provide critical humanitarian assistance to 6.4 million vulnerable people in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe...