The United Nations, the National Assembly, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA and other stakeholders have canvassed for the war against drug abuse and trafficking to be fought from the home front. In different submissions at a national summit organised by the National Assembly Joint Committee on Drugs and Narcotics in collaboration with the National […]
Drug abuse, addiction must be fought on home front – UN, NASS, NDLEA
The Russian Foreign Ministry has levelled harsh accusations against the United Nations (UN) regarding the escalating security crisis at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and warned that the world was “on the precipice.” “The UN has unfortunately played a negative role in the case at hand,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the Russian state […]
War: Russia blasts UN over latest action on Ukraine nuclear plant crisis
Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has insisted that the agitator is not a “bad guy.” Ejimakor anchored his remark on a ruling by an Abia Court on the invasion of Kanu’s residence by the Army and a remark by the United Nations, UN. He recalled […]
Biafra: How court, UN showed Nnamdi Kanu not bad guy, should be freed – Lawyer
The United Nations has described as suicidal recent artillery and rocket fire around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in central Ukraine. The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, said that “any attack on nuclear power plants is a suicidal thing.” Addressing reporters in Tokyo, Japan, according to CNN, the UN boss added, “I hope that these attacks will […]
Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said referendum made the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar a Nigerian. Ejimakor also noted that Atiku’s emergence as Nigeria’s president should be anchored on a referendum. He explained that Adamawa State where Atiku hailed from became […]
Referendum made Atiku Nigerian – Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer backs UN position on IPOB leader
Aloy Ejimakor, the Special Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People, IPOB, has berated the Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, over its anti-Kanu comment. Ejimakor said it was disrespectful to the United Nations, UN, for CNG to ask the Federal Government not to release Kanu. Recall that United Nations Council’s Working Group […]
UN: Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer fires back at Arewa group over call not to release IPOB leader
Aloy Ejimakor, the Special Counsel of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has urged the Nigerian Government to honour the call by the United Nations, Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, to release the Biafra agitator. Ejimakor warned that the Nigerian Government may trigger a nasty diplomatic conflict if […]
Failure to release Nnamdi Kanu may lead to nasty conflict with UN – Lawyer warns Buhari govt
The Community Affairs Committee Chairman of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Melbourne, Australia, Mazi Nnamdi Nwokedi yesterday reacted to the United Nations’ position on the release of Nnamdi KANU from detention. Nwokedi in a statement he signed and issued to journalists in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, said the United Nations, UN, has done well by […]
IPOB reacts to UN’s position on release of Nnamdi Kanu from detention
The United Nations has decried that worsening food insecurity may push 1.74 million children under the age of five in North East Nigeria into malnutrition. A statement on Tuesday by the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria, Mr. Matthias Schmale titled: “Surviving the Food Crisis in North-east Nigeria,” said today in north-east Nigeria, […]
1.74 million children in North East at risk of malnutrition – UN
Every Nigerian citizen home and in the diaspora who has followed Governor Samuel Ortom’s leadership trajectory must have observed that the things he has been saying and doing as a leader guided by a sense of patriotism, are fast becoming a template in our nation’s socio-political discourse. Infact, the Benue State Governor’s viewpoints and proactive […]
Fred Ochono: Ortom vindicated again as UN re-echoes his call for Kanu’s release
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has commended the United Nations, UN, for asking the Nigerian Government to release its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. IPOB expressed hope that the Nigerian 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 […]
IPOB reacts as UN asks Buhari govt to release Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally
UN Secretary-General, António Guterres has condemned the missile strike on the Ukrainian port of Odessa, which came one day after Kiev and Moscow struck a deal to unblock grain exports. The Ukrainian military said two Russian missiles were intercepted by air defences on Saturday and two others hit the commercial port on the Black Sea. […]
War: UN, EU react to attack on Odessa’s port after grain deal
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres has condemned the deadly missile attack on Thursday against the city of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine, reportedly killing at least 22 people, including three children. According to reports, more than a hundred people were wounded in the attack. Cruise missiles fired from a Russian submarine in the Black Sea struck civilian […]
Russia-Ukraine war: UN reacts as deadly missile attack kills 22 in Vinnytsia
The United Nations Security Council on Friday observed a minute’s silence for former Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated. Diplomats at the UN headquarters in New York stood silently to pay their respects. Brazil’s ambassador to the UN, Ronaldo Costa Filho, presiding over the meeting, said the council members sent their “condolences and […]
The deaths of dozens Africans trying to cross from Morocco into Spain have sparked global condemnation. Last Friday, 2,000 migrants, mainly from Sudan, tried to cross the barbed-wire fence at the militarized border the North African country and city of Melilla share. Scores of Moroccan and Spanish officers resisted them with force leading to the […]
AU, UN demand probe as African migrants die at Morocco-Spain border
The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Chief Gani Adams has urged the United Nations (UN) and other international organisations to immediately intervene in the rising insecurity in Nigeria. He said “no part of Nigeria is safe again.” Adams disclosed this in a letter addressed to the UN Secretary-General, Mr António Guterres, and copies sent to […]
Insecurity: Nigeria not safe again – Gani Adams tells UN, EU, others
The United Nations (UN) has expressed grave concern about the recent waves of terrorist attacks affecting civilians in North-East Nigeria. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Matthias Schmale said attacks by non-state armed groups (NSAGs) and communal clashes raise immediate concerns for the safety of civilians. Schmale noted that the situation put at serious risk the capacity […]
The High Representative for the UN Alliance of Civilisations (UNAOC), Mr Miguel Moratinos, has called on all governments to support the implementation of the Plan of Action to Safeguard Religious Sites to keep worshippers safe. Moratinos made the appeal in the light of the attack on St Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, […]