The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the election into the vacant African seat on the council was inconclusive
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The President of the United Nations General Assembly, Ambassador Tijani Muhammad-Bande, has condemned the recent killing of several Nigerian soldiers by terrorists in Borno State.
He spoke against the backdrop of the rapid spread of the virus around the world, a situation some blame on governments’ failure in affected countries
A Nigerian Government team to the historic event, which will be led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, will include the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ahmed Rufa’i Abubakar, and the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu
The President of the United Nations General Assembly, Maria Espinosa, “is delighted” by news that Ebola may soon be a preventable and treatable disease.
According to the lender, the initiative is part of its efforts to commemorate the 2019 World Sickle Cell Day which holds in June
The assistance of United Nations and the international community will be invaluable in reversing the devastation visited on Nigeria by the Boko Haram insurgency, President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday told the visiting President of the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces.
Espinosa said Africa was at the forefront of global development and her visit to the region for the second time as 73rd President of the UNGA indicates the interest of the UN in Africa.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the UN General Assembly declared April 6 every year as the International Day of Sports for Development and Peace
The National Population Commission of Nigeria has estimated that no fewer than 19 million persons are living with disabilities in Nigeria.
A veteran Nigerian Artiste, Richard Mofe Damijo, popularly known as RMD, says Nigerian artistes will support the efforts to end the scourge of Tuberculosis in the country.
Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s outing at 73rd UN General Assembly, New York, has made him an accepted and recognised global icon in the fight against corruption.
The group said at an event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Friday that journalists were regularly threatened, attacked and killed and also being imprisoned in record numbers around the world
President Muhammadu Buhari affirmed on Friday in New York that checking the menace of corruption would create major funding for developmental programmes and projects for African countries.
Nigerians in the Diaspora have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to look into the possibility of including them to vote during elections in the country.
The President stated this at a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in New York on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly
Nigeria has urged nuclear weapons capable States to dismantle and renounce them to avoid catastrophic consequences on humanity.
US First Lady, Melania Trump, will visit Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt next month on her first solo trip abroad.
On behalf of the Government and people of Nigeria, I congratulate you, Madam President, on your well-deserved election as President of the 73rd General Assembly. As you embark on your assignment, I would like to assure you of Nigeria’s support in no less measure than that which we extended to your illustrious predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Miroslav Lajčák.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that Iran should be allowed to keep selling oil and urged dialogue as he rejected a US push to isolate the Tehran regime.