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UN facilitates dialogue to mitigate herders, farmers crises

UN Trust Fund for Human Security (UNTFHS) has facilitated dialogue aimed at mitigating herdsmen/farmers crisis in the middle-belt region of Nigeria, Mr Lucky Musonda, Head of...

admin - June 28, 2019

Human Welfare

Food safety contributes to food security, human health, economic prosperity — UN

As the first-ever UN World Food Safety Day was observed on Friday, June 7, 2019, the UN underlined the need for food safety as it contributes...

admin - June 8, 2019

Human Welfare

Maida: Linking humanitarian assistance to development

The Maida programme is building livelihood and dismantling energy poverty in Borno State. Launched in 2018 with financial support from the European Commission (EU), the programme...

admin - May 26, 2019

Human Welfare

Sahel crisis reaching unprecedented levels, UN warns

Insecurity and armed attacks in the Sahel region have reached unprecedented levels, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). UN spokesperson,...

admin - May 8, 2019

Human Welfare

WFP adopts new strategic plans to expand support to Nigeria

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is to expand its four-year support to humanitarian and development programmes in Nigeria. Myrta Kaulard, WFP Representative and Country...

admin - May 2, 2019

Human Welfare

Palm oil development leaves Liberians poorer, says winner of ‘Green Nobel’

Palm oil plantations in Liberia are billed as bringing jobs and development but leave locals poorer, says a Liberian lawyer who won the prestigious Goldman Environmental...

admin - April 29, 2019

Human Welfare

Stakeholders seek rights protection in EIA to curb crisis

Stakeholders have called for inclusion of social and human rights protective mechanisms in the Nigerian environmental impact assessment to mitigate crises in extractive laden areas in the...

admin - April 21, 2019

Human Welfare

Otodo Gbame evictees seek justice, compensation

The Nigeria Slum/Informal Settlement Federation is standing in solidarity with the over 30,000 people who were evicted in a state-led land grab from Otodo Gbame community...

admin - April 16, 2019

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