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The UN has voiced concerns over what it termed the growing attacks on journalists, warning that attacks on media workers must stop. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, stated this in a message ahead of World Press Freedom…
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Nigeria has been elected to Chair the United Nations Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations, known as “the UN’s most strategic committee,” for a record 54th time. Charge d’Affaires, Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United…
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Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, has hosted Ambassadors of India, Egypt, Indonesia, the Philippines, Turkey, Malaysia, and Qatar in Maiduguri. SolaceBase reports that the delegation was accompanied by the United Nations…
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President Donald Trump is withdrawing the United States from a foundational climate treaty as part of a sweeping exit from collective global action, the White House announced Wednesday. A total of 66 global organizations and treaties —…
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife by U.S. special forces in the early hours of Saturday is “a dangerous precedent”. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr…
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The United Nations (UN) has warned that acute food insecurity is worsening in Nigeria and 15 other global hunger hotspots, putting millions at risk of famine between November 2025 and May 2026. The joint report ‘Hunger Hotspots: FAO/WFP…
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Chief Superintendent of Corrections, CSC Olukemi Ibikunle of the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, has emerged winner of the 2025 United Nations Trailblazer Award for Women Justice and Corrections Officers. The prestigious honour,…
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Vice-President Kashim Shettima has given an insight into the reasons for the declaration of the ‘State of Emergency on Agriculture’ by President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Shettima spoke at a session on: Country Perspectives:…
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Vice-President Kashim Shettima has arrived in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, to participate at the second United Nations (UN) Food Systems Summit holding from July 27 to 29. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the…
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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has said that it will be forced to suspend all emergency food and nutrition aid for 1.3 million people in northeast Nigeria at the end of July. A Wednesday statement by the UN said the…
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