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Budgetary cuts in health, education: SERAP reports Buhari, NASS to UN 

  The anti-corruption and good governance crusaders, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked three United Nations  special rapporteurs to prevail on the...

Post-COVID-19 lockdown: UN groups mull sustainable new education model

    As part of post-COVID-19 global lockdown strategies, Africana Women Working Group at the United Nations and the Center for SDG Global...

COVID-19: UN sets up regional information, knowledge hub to fight virus 

     In response to the COVID-19 global crisis,  the United Nations is set to inaugurate a digital hub to house information...

Exiled Sanusi :SERAP writes United Nation, urges its intervention

  …demands compensation, release of Sanusi The continued detention and banishment of the dethroned Emir of Kano, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has attracted...

Death penalty hate speech bill: UN, UK react

  The United Nations and the United Kingdom have reacted to the death penalty clause being proposed by the Senate’s Hate Speech Bill....

Don’t negotiate with fraudulent P&ID – Magu

  Barely 24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari told Process and Industrial Development (P&ID), the Irish engineering firm that recently won a $9.6...

Buhari administration just got caught in a lie about ransom to free kidnapped Dapchi schoolgirls

Let’s not over-complicate this: The federal government lied about the statement denying the payment of large sums of money as ransom to terrorists...

Tanzania withdraws from UN refugee programme

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has announced his country will pull out of the UN’s “comprehensive refugee response framework”, which provides lasting solutions for...

UN votes 128-9 to reject US decision on Jerusalem

More than 100 countries defied President Donald Trump on Thursday and voted in favor of a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for...

UN Gives Egypt 1 Week to Re-Open Closed Coptic Churches as Christians Cry Out

[dropcap]A[/dropcap] top U.N. lawyer has given the Egyptian government one week to stop the closing of Coptic churches and begin re-opening the ones...

Buhari urge stronger cooperation in targeting terrorists in the Lake Chad

[dropcap]P[/dropcap]resident Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday urged the international community to support the Lake Chad region in its fight against terror even as other...

Former U.S Attorney General To UN: Expel Nigeria For Allowing Genocide

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]nternational human rights lawyer Bruce Fein urged member states of the United Nations organization on Sunday  to hold Nigeria accountable for its crimes...

Buhari heads to New-York Amid rising unrest

[dropcap]P[/dropcap]resident Muhammadu Buhari will on Sunday depart Abuja for New York, amid angry protests, skirmishes, tension and confusion over the deployment of soldiers...