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Stop attacks on children, UNICEF appeals to warring parties

With defenceless children increasingly targeted in conflicts, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called on all warring parties around the globe to comply...

CSOs decry lack of basic facilities in Benue IDPs camps

The Benue Civil Society Organisations (CSO) Coalition on Monday, May 14, 2018 decried the absence of basic amenities in the eight Internally Displaced Persons...

Flooding displaces 220,000 in Somalia

Heavy rains in Somalia’s Juba and Shabelle river basins continue to cause flash and riverine flooding displacing an estimated 220,000 people, the UN Office...

‘Up Against Trafficking’ campaign launched in Maiduguri

“Up Against Trafficking”, a campaign that is aimed at protecting Boko Haram victims from sex trafficking, has been officially launched in Maiduguri, the capital...

Benue lauds Fidelity Bank for corporate social responsibility presence

Benue State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Ladi Isigbe, has commended Fidelity Bank Plc. for its corporate social responsibility presence in...

Banks coordinate support for economic migration, forced displacement

Seven Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) launched a new platform to enhance their collaboration on economic migration and forced displacement on Friday, April 20, 2018...

UNICEF identifies 240,000 out-of-school children in Zamfara

The United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) said it had identified 240,560 out-of-school children in three Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Zamfara State. The affected...

Nigeria asked to enact policies to better manage population

Since the National Population Commission (NPC) revealed that the population of Nigeria has official reached 198 million, experts have lent their voices to its...

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UN ‘deeply saddened’ by Maiduguri suicide bombing attack – Fall

Nigeria Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Mohamed Fall, on loss of lives in a suspected suicide attack in Gamboru, Maiduguri,...
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CITES at UNEA-7: Strengthening multilateral action for a resilient planet

Biodiversity loss continues to accelerate, driven by multiple interconnected pressures including unsustainable use, illegal trade, habitat degradation and the...

Recipe for fixing the planet, by UNEP report

When the seventh edition of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) – a sprawling report on the state of the natural world...

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