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September 12, 2017 No Responses

President Buhari Leads Nigerian Delegation to New York

Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama has said that President Muhammadu Buhari will lead the Nigerian delegation to the 72nd UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Onyeama made this known in Abuja on Tuesday when he briefed the newsmen on...

July 21, 2017 No Responses

Prostitution and Voodoo: Over 1,000 Nigerian Girls in Danger in Italy

The International Organisation for Migration on Friday said thousands of Nigerian migrant girls brought to Italy were in great danger of being forced into prostitution in Europe. The number of female Nigerians, many of them minors, often naive about their...

June 21, 2017 No Responses

Nigeria to Become 3rd Most Populous Country by 2050 – UN

Nigeria is projected to be the world’s third most populous country by the year 2050, according to a report released by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The report, titled ‘World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision’, said with...

May 27, 2017 No Responses

Tension in Borno as Boko Haram Hijacks Bags of Rice from UN Body

Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect broke loose in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, on Friday, hijacking bags of rice which the World Food Programme (WFP) planned to distribute to internally displaced persons (IDPs). WFP is the food assistance branch...

May 1, 2017 No Responses

Youth Exclusion from Leadership Bane of Nigeria’s Dev, says UN

Nigeria and Africa are relegated to the background because they fail to develop their productive population in leadership and capacity,’’ a United Nations Ambassador, Dr Otive Igbuzor, said in Lagos on Monday. He spoke at a youth empowerment programme orga...