Tag: UN
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Nigeria lost $2.8 billion to ‘oil-related crimes’ in 2018 – UN
The United Nations says Nigeria lost an estimated 2.8 billion dollars in revenues in 2018, mainly due to oil-related crimes. This is according to a new ‘Report by the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS)’ on Monday in New York. The report, which covered from…
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UN chief urges peaceful, credible elections in Nigeria, others
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for peaceful, inclusive and credible elections in Nigeria. Guterres made the call in a report to the Security Council on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS). The UN chief also appealed for peace in other countries in the West African sub-region…
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UN aircraft lift over 58,000 passengers in Nigeria in 2018
The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) successfully transported over 58,000 passengers by both helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft between January and November 2018 in support of humanitarian efforts in Nigeria. The UNHAS fixed-wing service focuses on Borno and Adamawa states, two of the three states most affected by ongoing conflict in the Northeast of Nigeria,…
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SERAP drags FG to UN over ‘failure to end ASUU strike’
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent an urgent appeal to two UN special rapporteurs urging them to “prevail upon the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to reach an agreement to end the ongoing strike action by ASUU, which continues to have real and dire…
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UN chief says world still on red alert, but…
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has restated the red alert he issued on Jan. 1, 2018 over a range of dangers confronting the world, which “still persist” as 2019 looms. The UN chief said in his message for the New Year that “these are anxious times for many, and our world is undergoing a stress…
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Unimaginable horrors of Nigerian migrants in Libya
The United Nations has released a new report, which detailed the unimaginable horrors Nigerian migrants were being subjected from the moment they entered Libya and throughout their stay in that country. The report, released by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR),…
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Guinea-Bissau needs genuinely free, fair elections – UN Security Council
The UN Security Council says political actors in Guinea-Bissau must demonstrate renewed good faith to hold “genuinely free and fair elections” to break cycle of instability in the country. The 15-member Security Council in a statement warned that the country was set to face continuous cycle of instability unless the political actors commit to holding…
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UN highlights alarming trends in drugs use in Nigeria
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says Nigeria, and West and Central Africa face “disruptive and destabilising” new trends regarding drug trafficking, drug use and other crimes. The Executive Director of UNODC, Mr Yury Fedotov, said this while briefing the UN Security Council session, presided by Côte d’Ivoire. The briefing was the…
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World loses $2.3trn to corruption annually – UN
Oliver Stolpe, Country Representative, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), has said that the world loses $2.3 trillion to corruption annually. He disclosed this at the Corruption Risk Assessment (CRA) training organised for Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies of member-countries of African Union (AU) in Abuja, on Monday. The training was organised by the…
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$1trn paid in bribes, $2.6trn stolen annually
The UN says one trillion dollars are paid in bribes annually, while another 2.6 trillion are stolen, all due to corruption. The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, while counting the costs of corruption, said values and economic development were under assault, as trillions of dollars were lost. He said every year, trillions of dollars – equivalent…