The United Nations has said the success or failure of Africa depends on Nigeria and promised to collaborate with President Bola Tinubu’s administration to ensure the...
Numerous women and girls have been detained in Iran for failing to heed head-covering regulations, and hundreds of businesses have been closed for failing to enforce...
The United Nations (UN) has revealed that 22 per cent of decision-making positions are held by women in Nigeria’s private sector. Ms Beatrice Eyong, UN’s Women...
Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State has called for the deployment of advanced technology to combat insecurity in the state and the Northern region in general....
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has warned developing countries especially in Africa facing a high risk of debt distress against issuing more...
Top United Nations, UN, officials have warned that 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in “extreme and immediate danger” as worsening violence advances and threatens...
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Thursday warned that Tehran would make Israel “regret” any attack on his country in response to the Islamic Republic’s weekend...
A former United Nations rights chief, Navi Pillay, who is chairing a three-person investigation, said Tuesday that Israel is preventing UN investigators from speaking to witnesses...
The United Nations (UN), Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has called for an immediate end to hostilities between Iran and Israel. The UN official said the aggression between...
The United Nations, UN, humanitarians in Sudan on Friday issued a fresh alert about pervasive food insecurity and looming famine in the country. After almost a...
Mexico has appealed to the International Court of Justice to boot Ecuador from the United Nations, following a late night police raid on its embassy in...
The United Nations Interim Forces in South Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Wednesday said the explosion that hit a patrol in southern Lebanon last weekend and injured three...
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres has said the world body’s security council needs a serious reform of its composition and working methods as the...
Households across all continents wasted over 1 billion meals a day in 2022, while 783 million people were affected by hunger and a third of humanity...
The United Nations (UN) has assured the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) of support to succeed in its onerous task of curbing the menace of...
The United States has circulated for the first time a draft UN resolution calling for an “immediate” ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, as warnings grow of...
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is a “nightmare” for mothers and babies, with doctors reporting small and sickly newborns, stillbirths and women forced to undergo C-sections...
The United Nations appealed Friday for Sudan’s battling factions to allow delivery of humanitarian relief to fend off looming “catastrophic” hunger. Some five million Sudanese could...
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said one of its aid warehouses in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip was “hit” on Wednesday, wounding scores of people....
To mark 2024 Women’s Day, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Minister of Women Affairs, Barrister Uju Kennedy Ohaneye, unveiled the Nigeria for Women programmes, which...
The United Nations (UN) strongly condemns the reported abduction of internally displaced persons (IDPs), many of them women, boys and girls, in the Ngala Local Government...
Israel’s military on Monday accused the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees, UNRWA, of employing “over 450 terrorists” belonging to groups including Hamas. The allegation heightens...
A full-scale Israeli military operation in Rafah would deliver a death blow to aid programmes in Gaza, where humanitarian assistance remains “completely insufficient”, the UN chief...