Tag: UNDP

2023: UN backs INEC to conduct credible elections

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir
Cross-section of officials of United Nations-Development Programme UNDP and INEC during training of INECs Heads of Departments in South South and South East held in Port Harcourt on Friday

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says it is collaborating with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct free, fair and credible elections in 2023. Matthew Alao, UNDP Team Lead, Governance, Peace and Security, disclosed this at the opening of a two-day training organised by the UN body in Port Harcourt on Friday.  Alao said that UNDP collaborated with INECs Election Monitoring Support Centre (EMSC) to train its Head of Departments (HODs) in South South and South East for successful conduct of the elections. According to him, the successful…

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Insecurity: Boko Haram war has led to 350,000 deaths – UN

Aminu Imam

Says more than 90% are children170 dying every day A new United Nations (UN) report estimates that the 12-year conflict in north-eastern Nigeria has contributed to the deaths of nearly 350,000 people more than 90% of whom are children. The death toll, given by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in a new study on the war and its effect on livelihoods published yesterday, is 10 times higher than previous estimates of about 35,000 based only on those killed in fighting in Nigeria since violence broke out. The UNDPstated that…

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