Addressing the media to round off his visit to New York, the President reviewed all his major and side events during the visit and highlighted the issues on which he sent a clear and direct message to world leaders
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While commending the Multi-National Joint Task Force for degrading Boko Haram, Buhari said the Nigerian government has been fully responsive to the urgency to save innocent lives, protect victims of Boko Haram atrocities, guarantee stability and facilitate the resumption of normal social and economic activities in the North-East of the country
The explosion occurred on Saturday at about 8:30pm, which is about 2:30am in Nigeria, in the Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan, which houses the United Nations Headquarters, where world leaders are to gather from Monday for the 71st UN General Assembly
Onyeama, who made the fact known in Abuja on Friday at a news conference, said the President would be discussing series of issues which had direct impact on Nigeria
The meeting, which was held on Friday, was called to seek help for millions of people in the Lake Chad Basin region forced to flee the violence of Boko Haram and who are hit with repeated droughts and floods that have brought malnutrition and disease
This was contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan declared Wednesday in New York that pressing challenges to global peace and security have made it imperative that urgent action be taken on the reformation of United Nations Security Council.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had no control over the number of people from the private sector that attend the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, United States of America.
Mugabe said that the sanctions imposed by the EU and the US violated the UN Charter on state sovereignty and condemned them as a “foreign-policy tool to effect regime change