United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres has drawn  attention to what he called “vaccine hesitancy”, which he blamed on misinformation, warning of the rise in the mistrust of vaccines. The warning comes as the world eagerly awaits a vaccine to defeat the pandemic, which the UN Chief said had reached the “grimmest of milestones”. Guterres ...

Outgoing President of the UN General Assembly (PGA), Amb. Tijani Muhammad-Bande, has highlighted some critical lessons from COVID-19. He told the News Agency of Nigeria in New York that the pandemic had further underscored the need for concerted efforts to bridge the global technological gap. Muhammad-Bande referenced a UN report indicating that 463 million school ...

The coronavirus pandemic will widen the poverty gap between women and men, pushing 47 million more women and girls into impoverished lives by next year, and undoing progress made in recent decades, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Worldwide more women than men will be made poor by the economic fallout and massive job losses ...

The United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, has passed no fewer than 70 decisions and resolutions since it went virtual in March over the COVID-19 pandemic. Amb. Tijani Muhammad-Bande, President of the 74th session of the Assembly and Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, stated this on Monday. Muhammad-Bande spoke at an informal consultative meeting on ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has renewed his call for a total ban on nuclear weapons testing. This came in a message to mark this year’s International Day Against Nuclear Tests observed on Aug. 29 annually. According to Guterres, this year’s commemoration comes 75 years after the first-ever nuclear test conducted by the United States in ...

Amid the insurgency in the northeast and security challenges in other parts of the country, the United Nations, UN, has sued for peace. United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, said military interventions and humanitarian efforts alone will not solve the conflict. Kallon disclosed this on Monday when leading a UN ...

Governments have the right to restrict protests on public health grounds, within reason, the U.N. Human Rights Committee said, as Black Lives Matter and other demonstrations clash with coronavirus outbreaks around the world. The committee stepped in to formulate its legal interpretation having seen a gap in the international norms being tested before the pandemic ...

The United Nation (UN) Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr Edward Kallon, has condemned the killing of five aid workers by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno. Kallon, in a statement released in Maiduguri, said he was utterly shocked and horrified by the gruesome killing of some of his colleagues and partners by non-state armed groups in ...

  The U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday condemned discriminatory and violent policing after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month and ordered a report on “systemic racism” against people of African descent. The 47-member-state forum unanimously adopted a resolution brought by African countries. The mandate also asks U.N. High Commissioner for Human ...

  The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday in New York elected Nigeria alongside 17 other countries into the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the UN. The new ECOSOC members will serve for three years with effect from Jan.1, 2021. This will be Nigeria’s third time of serving in the important council since 2012. ...