Tag: UN Envoy

B’Haram: ‘Over N2.48tr spent on humanitarian aid in N’East in 2yrs’ – Ex-UN Envoy

Aminu Imam
Ex UN Envoy on humanitarian aid2

This significant funding supported millions of people displaced by Boko Haram terrorists, with essential humanitarian aid, including shelter, food, non-food items, and protection. Former United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Matthias Schmale, revealed that the United Nations raised and spent $1.5billion (approximately N2.489 trillion) in North East Nigeria during his two-year tenure. This significant funding supported millions of people displaced by Boko Haram terrorists, with essential humanitarian aid, including shelter, food, non-food items, and protection. Schmale, who is currently UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, emphasised the…

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Abuja looting: Envoy blames poverty, hunger for criminal activities

Aminu Imam

A member of the United Nations (UN) Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan, Prof. Joy Ezeilo, has lamented that severe hunger and extreme poverty faced by many poor and vulnerable Nigerians are pushing people to criminal activities. Ezeilo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a Law Professor at the University of Nigeria, stated this in a statement yesterday in reaction to the looting of the Abuja warehouse allegedly belonging to the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT) Recall that some FCT residents, on Sunday, looted a warehouse reportedly belonging to the National…

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‘Military coups a setback for Africa’- Nigeria’s UN envoy

Aminu Imam

Nigeria’s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, has said the recent coups in African countries are regressing democracy on the continent. Speaking with newsmen in New York on Saturday, Muhammad-Bande said the effects of the coups would spiral into a setback for prosperity. According to him, African countries fought for the sovereignty of their nations and should be at liberty to choose how they would live. “In the same vein, people also should be free within their own nations to determine how they live and so that is…

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