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Nigeria To Benefit From $50m UN Food Grant

Nigeria will benefit from a $50 million grant donated to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) by the Government of Japan to...

Japa: Be cautious of syndicate offering fake employment letters in UK, UN warns Nigerian migrants

The United Nations Migration Agency, International Organization for Migration (IOM), has advised migrants to be cautious of a syndicate that specializes in offering...

COP28: UN calls for cooperation, action to get humanity back on track

The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Mr Simon Stiell, has urged cooperation among nations to get humanity...

G-77: Nigeria committed to partnerships in resolving global challenges — VP Shettima

Nigeria’s Vice-President, Sen. Kashim Shettima, has expressed Nigeria’s readiness and commitment to tow the path of partnership with member-states of the G-77+China towards...

UN partners Borno, NEDC to resettle 2.2m IDPs in three Northeast states

The United Nations (UN) has pledged to work with Borno State governor and the Northeast Development Commission (NEDC) to resettle and address the...

Four days after Supreme Court’s order on old naira notes, Presidency, CBN Governor still mum, economy in dire straits

Four days after the Supreme Court ruled that the old Naira notes should remain legal tender until December 31, 2023, the Central Bank...

Revealed! How Russia’s mercenary group plunder resources in Africa to fund war against Ukraine

  The United State’s Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield has accused Russia’s notorious mercenary army, the Wagner Group, of plundering Africa’s natural resources...

UN says “famine is at the door” in Somalia

The United Nation says “famine is at the door” in Somalia, with “concrete indications” it will occur later this year in the southern...

Insurgency, humanitarian crisis in Northeast: UN mobilizes $321m for Nigeria — Guterres

Nigeria’s fight against insurgency in the Northeast and to combat the emerging humanitarian crisis has attracted a whopping $321 million from the world...

1,045,459 have fled Ukraine – UN map

No fewer than one million people have left Ukraine according to a UN Map. The humanitarian crisis unfolding in the country is exposed...

UN, Tony Elumelu Foundation launch new initiative targeting 100m African youths for empowerment by 2030

By Ajuma Edwina Ameh A new initiative, Generation Unlimited (GenU) Sahel, has been unveiled by the United Nations in partnership with the Tony...

US Air Force F-16 intercepts plane over New-York during UN Assembly meeting

A U.S Air Force F-16 intercepted a small aircraft over New York City on Wednesday, after the aircraft violated a temporary flight restriction...

Buhari to deliver UN General Assembly address Sept 24

  President Muhammadu Buhari will deliver his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, September 24, Per Second News gathered in...

One-million-man march staged at UN headquarters in New York by Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination

  “The protest is called to draw international support for their cause which includes an end to the genocide being perpetrated by herdsmen...

AWA KALU, SAN @ 68, MARCHES ON!

  By Sonny Ajala   ‘It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed’ by Harvey S. Firestone. When shortly after...