UN official to Nigeria: Impose vacant home tax, tackle extreme housing shortage
Leilana Fartha, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Adequate Housing, on Monday urged the federal government to impose vacant home taxes with a view Read more
Leilana Fartha, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Adequate Housing, on Monday urged the federal government to impose vacant home taxes with a view Read more
Amina Mohammed, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General , has pledged the UN’s full support to the African Union (AU) as nations begin to earnestly operationalise Read more
Synthetic opioid use is booming, the United Nations said on Wednesday in a worldwide drug report that showed deaths in the United States from overdoses Read more
More than 300,000 people have been forced to flee resurgent inter-ethnic violence in north-east Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) just this month, the UN Read more
The United Nations Postal Administration(UNPA) on the 4th of February released six new postage stamps promoting equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The new stamps, which Read more
Three Austrian physicians. The co-founder of an international aid organization. A career ambassador. The wife and children of a Slovak legislator. A Nigerian-born Canadian Read more
The joint representative of the UN and the AU for Darfur in Sudan on Wednesday called for international efforts to carry forward the Darfur peace Read more
The United Nation (UN) General Assembly has decisively backed a resolution effectively calling on the US to withdraw its recognition of Jerusalem as the capital Read more
The United Nations said on Thursday it will not have a role in the Iraqi Kurdish referendum on independence planned to be held in September. Read more
The UN human rights office said on Wednesday in its eighth annual report on reprisals that a record of 29 states have retaliated against citizens Read more
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned world leaders against war with North Korea, calling on them to take the threat of “nuclear peril” seriously. “We Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump has described North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un as a rocket man on a suicide mission. And he said his country Read more
The United Nation (UN) is under immense pressure following an escalating nuclear threat from North Korea and the mass flight of minority Muslims from Myanmar, Read more
Nigeria’s Dr. Rebecca Samuel Dali, who had helped in the North East to reintegrate girls and orphans freed by Boko Haram received the Sergio Vieira Read more
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned Boko Haram terrorists’ attacks in Borno in which many people were killed. The suicide bomb attacks occurred in Mandarari Read more
The Palestinian envoy to the UN has told the Security Council that al-Aqsa Mosque compound crisis in East Jerusalem is at a tipping point, urging Read more
A high-level United Nations delegation arrived in Yemen on Monday to visit areas held both by the government and the Houthi rebels across the crisis-hit Read more
UN’s Middle East envoy has said a solution is needed by Friday to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound crisis in Jerusalem, which threatens to have “potential Read more
The U.N. Security Council has strongly condemned North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test, in a lengthy statement that also threatens to impose fresh sanctions on Read more
For more than a year, a United Nations agency in Geneva has been helping North Korea prepare an international patent application for production of sodium Read more
The United Nations is seeking a further $900 million this year for Somalia, where more than 6 million people need humanitarian assistance and 275,000 malnourished Read more
The new Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN, Prof. Tijjani Bande, says his assumption of duty signifies that Nigeria has come to take its Read more
UNITED NATIONS — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Friday that Washington would not rule out a military response to future North Korean aggression and Read more
GENEVA — More than 700 global leaders in business, government and civil society from 65 countries are meeting to explore the opportunities and challenges offered by Read more
U.N. investigators have discovered 17 mass grave sites in central Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing the total to 40 documented in an area where the Read more
The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, has appointed Ms Vera Songwe as the first female Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). A Read more
Three men working as porters for the U.N.’s World Food Programme were killed in ethnic violence in South Sudan’s Wau city earlier this week, the Read more
Russia blocked a Western-led effort at the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to condemn last week’s deadly gas attack in Syria and push Moscow’s ally Read more
Russia on Friday demanded an emergency meeting of the United Nations ceasefire task force in Geneva to discuss U.S. missile strikes on Syria, the RIA Read more
Russia has been sharply criticised by other world powers at the UN Security Council in New York over the chemical weapons deaths in northern Syria. Read more
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