The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, gave the commendation when he visited the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, in Abuja on Wednesday.
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Chambas said this in Sokoto on Tuesday when he visited Governor Aminu Tambuwal at the Government House, Sokoto.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission disclosed this in a statement by its spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, on Monday.
Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Monday, a day after a United Nations representative made the prediction in a Channels TV interview, Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, expressed pleasure at the world body’s accurate observation of the trends in President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.
Ezekwesili, who is the co-founder of Transparency International, will speak on: “African Leadership in a Turbulent Era”
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the UK Minister of State for the United Nations, stated this at the Security Council briefing on the Group of 5 Sahel Joint Force.
But I was bewildered when a report credited to an arm of the UN with the caption: “UN counters Nigerian government, says three Borno LGAs cut off by Boko Haram,” published mainly by online media, failed to meet the minimum basics of an official reportage or assessment from such an august body. Infuriatingly, while it lacked substance conspicuously, it summed up on the security situation in the North East with a damning verdict on the Nigerian Government and implicatively efforts of the military on the counter-insurgency operations in the country.
It said the 11 million were needed to help the continent cope with a booming population, with the number of children set to increase by 170 million to 750 million in the next 13 years.
The arrests occurred in the eastern city of Lubumbashi on Sunday when police broke up a meeting by the Union for Democracy and Social Progress party on the eve of a return to the city of opposition leader, Felix Tshisekedi, after a long absence, party members told Reuters.
Mohammed disclosed this at a Cultural Night organised by Nigerians working at the United Nations Systems
Mohammed gave the warning at the opening ceremony of the the 23rd Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change in Denarau, an island near Fiji’s third largest city of Nadi.
Guterres said the adoption of the 2015 accord reached between Iran and a group of six countries on monitoring Iran’s nuclear programme was an important breakthrough to consolidate global peace and security.
The UN rights office said many of the suspects had been in prolonged pre-trial detention, including some since 2009, according to a statement by Spokesperson for OHCHR, Rupert Colville.
Obaseki made the recommendation on the occasion of the International Day of Non-Violence, marked on October 2 every year
The group said in its new report that the deportation defied a plea by United Nations Refugee Agency to not return anyone to north-eastern Nigeria, where Boko Haram killed thousands of people, until security and human rights situation improved considerably.
The House made its position known in a statement by the Deputy Majority Leader, Hon. Umar Buba Jibril, on Thursday
In an article published in HuffPost on Sunday and other various insidious videos, the US lawyer accused the military of carrying out a genocide against the Igbo people.
The ex-Senate President in a letter to the UN, dated September 18, 2017, said this is because IPOB has constituted itself into a terrorist organization and has continued to act in ways that terrorises the Nigerian State with the intent of plunging the West African country into war.
In separate letters to President Muhammadu Buhari and the United Nations, the group drew the attention of the Nigerian leader as well as the world body to various atrocities being carried out by IPOB members in the region.
The fresh sanctions were the punishment for the isolated North Korea over the country’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test on September 3