Killing of #EndSARS Protesters: You must hold perpetrators accountable, UN tells FG
By Perez Brisibe The United Nations, UN, has tasked the Nigerian government to ensure that it investigate and hold perpetrators of the attack on armless protesters in Lekki, Lagos State accountable. The position of the UN is the latest by international organisations and world powers on the reported shooting of #ENDSARS protesters by soldiers in […]
UN releases voting procedure for June 17 elections
The United Nations has issued a new voting procedure for the election of its next General Assembly president slated for June 17 in New York.
Three Nigerians, 80 others get UN posthumous peacekeeping award
The United Nations on Friday honoured three Nigerians and 80 other military, police and civilian peacekeepers, who lost their lives in the line of duty in 2019. The fallen heroes were posthumously awarded the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal during a virtual award ceremony to mark the 2020 International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers. Two of them, […]
Don’t let patent rows hamper search for coronavirus vaccine, UN advises
The UN patent agency has hailed the push to create a coronavirus vaccine and make it globally available, but warned against allowing copyright rows to overshadow and delay the process. “What we need in the first place here is innovation,” Francis Gurry, the head of the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), told reporters in […]
Rwanda genocide suspect Bizimana found dead ―UN tribunal
A former defence minister in Rwanda, Augustin Bizimana, one of the top suspects wanted over the country’s 1994 genocide, has died, the UN tribunal said Friday. He is believed to have died around August 2000, “based on the conclusive identification of Bizimana’s remains in a grave site in Pointe Noire, the Republic of the Congo,” […]
Remains of Rwandan war crimes suspect found in Congo — UN Prosecutor
The remains of a fugitive major suspect in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide have been identified in a grave in Congo, a United Nations war crimes prosecutor said on Friday. Serge Brammertz said Augustin Bizimana, who was indicted on 13 charges, including genocide, murder, and rape, is believed to have died in Pointe Noire, in the Republic […]
