As earlier reported by The Eagle Online on Wednesday morning, the nominees are to replace James of Ocholi from Kogi State, who died in a car crash, and Amina Mohammed, from Gombe State, who is now the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations
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According to a statement from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees on Tuesday, Cameroon has forcefully returned more than 2,600 refugees back to Nigerian border villages “against their will”
Guterres told women’s rights activists and civil society representatives at a town hall discussion at UN headquarters in New York that “the clear objective of our time is parity rooted in women’s empowerment”
Mohammed made the remarks at a “special honorary dinner” organised in her honour by Nigerian women at the Nigeria House in New York
The group also advised APC’s heirarchy to be extra careful in the handling of the replacement of Gombe State ministerial slot left open by the exit of Amina Mohammed, the erstwhile Minister of the Environment, who is now a Deputy General Secretary of the United Nations
UNAIDS made the disclosure in a new report released to commemorate the International Women’s Day
Mohammed, who made the remarks at the “Solve at the United Nations” event on Tuesday, also said “there are 21 million refugees”
The Food and Agriculture Organization’s food price index, which measures monthly changes for a basket of cereals, oilseeds, dairy products, meat and sugar, averaged 175.5 points in February, up 0.5 per cent on January levels
The commission disclosed this in a statement issued by Hanson Tamfu, its External Relations Officer for Nigeria, on Monday in Abuja
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees co-presented with the Federal Government, led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, a paper in Oslo on Friday outlining a vision for ensuring protection, access and lasting solutions for them, a UN statement said on Friday
The Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria reports that the spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric, at a press briefing on Friday, said Guterres welcomed the donors’ pledges
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that a cross section of the cabinet ministers could not control their emotion as they wept openly at the event
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Hussein said in a statement that the proceedings “fell short of international norms and standards for fair trial and also breached Libyan law in some respects”
The Deputy Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, Farhan Haq, said the UN OCHA “is alarmed by the reported terrorist attacks on vulnerable displaced people in two locations in Maiduguri in north-eastern Nigeria that took place on Thursday
Dominic Burgeon, the FOA Director of Emergency, disclosed this to newsmen during an assessment visit to farmlands in Fariya village in Jere Council of Maiduguri
Brown told the Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria that the initiative continued in spite of the Boko Haram attacks
Farhan Haq, the Deputy Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General, said at a press briefing on Tuesday that most of the victims were UN Peacekeepers
The UN envoy for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, in a statement, called on both Nigeria and Cameroon to take swift action to bring the perpetrators to justice
Guterres, who made the remarks at a press briefing with UN Correspondents in New York, said the US has a longstanding refugee programme and that Trump’s order should be removed “sooner rather than later”
The officials were on a delineation mission of the border towns between Nigeria and Cameroon