Tag: United Nations

Elections: ‘Poverty encourages vote-buying’ – UN women Rep.

Aminu Imam

The United Nations (UN) Women Representative to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States, (ECOWAS), Ms. Beatrice Eyong, says poverty is a major cause of vote-buying in Nigeria. Eyong stated this when she received the national officials of the Women’s wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria, (WOWICAN), in Abuja. The WOWICAN women representatives were at the UN House in Abuja to seek for collaboration to end gender-based issues in Nigeria. According to Eyong, the UN’s women planned to initiate programmes to curtail the problem of vote-buying in…

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“Keep off Nnamdi Kanu’s case” – Coalition of 52 Northern Groups tell UN

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A Coalition of 52 Northern Group, (CNG), has warned the Federal Government to be wary of the United Nations (UN)’s interest in the case of the detained leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.  The CNG equally cautioned officials of the UN to keep off Nigeria’s internal affairs, particularly Kanu’s case. This is even as the 52 organisations accused the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) of deception, saying that its failure to execute the threat to embark on a 3-day nationwide strike two weeks after its public…

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Nigeria riddled with unfit, corrupt leaders – UN report

Aminu Imam

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has painted an ugly picture of Nigeria, saying that it is riddled with unfit, corrupt and self-serving leaders. This, it said, has brought the country to its current state where insecurity, unemployment and unfulfilled promises have bred popular scepticism. In a report titled: “Imagine Nigeria”, the UNDP explained that not only that all public sectors and government parastatals in Nigeria have suffered from this decay in governance, but the civil service at the national and State levels are also the sites of the most…

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IPOB reacts as UN asks FG to release Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally

Aminu Imam

The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), has commended the United Nations, (UN), for asking the Federal Government to release its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The banned group expressed hope that the Federal Government would comply with the call and release Kanu. The UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention had called on the Nigerian Government to release Kanu unconditionally. However, the IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful, said: “It is indeed a great milestone for our leader, Nnamdi Kanu, the IPOB and Biafrans worldwide. “It is our hope that Nigeria,…

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2023 Elections: “We won’t interfere in Nigerians’ democratic choice”, INEC Chairman tells UN

Aminu Imam

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has assured the international community that the electoral umpire would always submit itself to the sanctity of votes cast by the Nigerian electorate. The INEC Chairman made the declaration yesterday, when he met with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mahamat Saleh Annadif, at the Commission headquarters in Abuja. Yakubu, who commended UNOWAS for being supportive of INEC during the conduct of elections in…

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Intractable Insecurity: Southern Kaduna Group writes UN, EU

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…Laments neglect by FG The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) yesterday disclosed that it had written the United Nations, European Union and Africa Union on the plight of its people amid intractable insecurity. The National President of SOKAPU, Jonathan Asake, revealed this during a session with newsmen at the weekend, asking the international community to wade into the plight of the Southern Kaduna people. The group added that it was tired of begging Kaduna State Governor, Nasir Ahmed el-Rufa’i, to end the carnage going on in Southern Kaduna. SOKAPU expressed…

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Nigeria, others face severe food, energy and finance crisis – UN chief

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The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has warned that the Ukraine conflict may cause a social and economic crisis in Nigeria and other countries of the world. The conflict, combined with other crises, is threatening to unleash “an unprecedented wave of hunger and destitution, leaving social and economic chaos in its wake,” Guterres said on Wednesday, at the launch of a second report by the Global Crisis Response Group on ‘Food, Energy and Finance over the Ukraine conflict’. “Food prices are at near-record highs. Fertiliser prices have more than…

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Insecurity: Nigerian Leaders must step-up – UN cautions

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As part of its contribution to addressing insecurity in Nigeria, the United Nations, (UN), yesterday, charged Nigerian leaders to intensify their approach towards taming insecurity in the country. This is even as the UN advocated that one of the best approaches to addressing issues bothering insecurity in Nigeria, is adopting a preventive security deployment in all facets of the country. The UN’s Resident Coordinator and Representative of the UN Secretary-General in the Kyrgz Republic, Dr. Ozonnia Ojielo, made this call during a one-day Seminar on: ‘Agenda for Peacebuilding in Nigeria,…

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UN chief welcomes peaceful elections in Somalia

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir
FARMAJO, HASSAN SHEIK OF SOMALIA

UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, on Monday welcomed the peaceful presidential elections held in Somalia on Sunday and congratulated the president-elect. Guterres, in a statement by his spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, congratulated the President-elect, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, on his election as the 10th president of Somalia. The 66-year-old politician prevailed against 35 candidates in the election for the country’s highest office, including the incumbent president, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, who had replaced Mohamud in power in February 2017. Parliamentary and presidential elections were long overdue in Somalia, where Farmajo’s term expired in…

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‘UN mobilising $321m to support Nigeria’s terrorism fight, combat humanitarian crisis’ – Sec-Gen., Guterres

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Hassan Umar Faruk, Abuja United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has disclosed that the global body is mobilising $321 million to support Nigeria’s counterinsurgency efforts in the North-East of the country, as well as address the humanitarian crisis in the region. He made this disclosure yesterday, while briefing State House correspondents after he met with President Muhammadu Buhari. According to him, “We are very active in support of the humanitarian effort of the Nigerian government; and that is why we have called for an additional $351 million, as part of…

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