It, therefore, called for deliberate action to end the conflicts.
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The group, in its report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, said: “Alarming pushbacks have been progressing across regions of the globe” through “alliance of conservative political ideologies and religious fundamentalisms”.
The oil-producing nation splintered following the 2011 NATO-backed revolt that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, and since 2014 has been divided between competing political and military groups based in Tripoli and the east.
Bolaji, who stated this in his remarks at High-level Debate Marking the 15th Anniversary of Adoption of UN Convention Against Corruption in New York, regretted the impacts of corruption on Nigeria.
They are the latest international body to up the pressure on the East African nation since 19-year-old Noura Hussein was sentenced to death by a Sudanese court earlier this month.
The Gender Technical Adviser on UN Women Project in Nigeria, Sewuese Surma, made this call Tuesday during a one day interactive session in Jos, Plateau State with heads of media establishments.
The Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric, said in New York that Nigeria paid its annual dues in full.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said nine billion dollars (about N3.2 billion) would be used to provide life-saving aid for some 60,000 people displaced by ongoing Boko Haram crisis in Borno.
The UN relief wing said the resumption of aid operations in the community followed several security assessments by the UN and non-governmental organisations.
The Secretary-General, in a statement issued in New York, called on the Federal Government to bring the abductors of the schoolgirls to justice.
The agencies, which include UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and World Food Programme, listed the 16 states as Bauchi, Benue, Gombe, Jigawa, Plateau, Niger, Kebbi, Katsina, Kaduna, Taraba, Zamfara, Sokoto, Kano, Yobe, Borno and Adamawa.
UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock will meet donors next week in the country where conditions in many areas are worsening, UN spokesman Jens Laerke told a Geneva briefing.
A female aid worker was also missing while one other sustained injuries in the attack.
Samantha Newport, Head of Communications, UNICEF Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, confirmed the incident to News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Maidguri.
A UN-backed report released on Thursday said the figure represents 14 per cent of the total global population of children, according to UN Children’s Fund Senior Nutrition Adviser, Roland Kupka.
The UN deputy relief chief stated said this on her arrival in Chad for a two-day visit to see first-hand the humanitarian situation in the country.
Prof. Ben Maloney, Communications Officer, Commonwealth Secretariat, said in a statement that the High Level Group would make recommendations on governance of the Commonwealth Secretariat.
The postponement of the case came one day after the Communications Minister, Sheriff Bojang, stepped down and fled the West African nation
Jammeh, who took power in a coup in 1994, initially conceded defeat in the December 1 election to little-known challenger, Adama Barrow, raising the prospect of an end to his 22 years rule
The UN representative said that the international community needed to act immediately to resolve the food insecurity faced by 4.6 million Nigerians in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States following the Boko Haram insurgency
Safieldin told the News Agency of Nigeria in New York on Wednesday that about a quarter of the funding was received as at October.
He, however, stated that at the moment, there is a funding shortfall of about 300 million dollars