The United States is withholding its dues to the U.N.’s aviation agency, arguing the body needs to move quickly with reforms like expanding public access to documents and giving greater protections to whistleblowers, U.S. government and aviation sources told Reuters this week. The United States has been advocating for greater transparency and protection for whistleblowers […]

Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, has said he has been trying to raise the alarm at the United Nations this week about the danger of a nuclear war breaking out over Kashmir. India and Pakistan came close to a conflict in February when India bombed Pakistani territory for the first time in a half-century and […]

There is no chance that the presidents of the United States, Donald Trump and Iran, Raohani will meet during the United Nations General Assembly this week, an Iranian official told Reuters on Wednesday, “Zero,” said the official on condition of anonymity as Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani prepared to give a speech at the annual gathering […]

Vanguard’s photo journalist, Abayomi Adeshida, captures some exciting moments at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) opening ceremony in New York. Vanguard

THE government of President Muhammadu Buhari could hardly contain its excitement. Professor Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, the country’s permanent representative to the United Nations was going to be elected the President of the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA. It appeared a major diplomatic achievement. Like a groom stretching its neck to find out when the bride would step into the registry, the government  strained its neck to look into the UNGA.

The United Nations received 37 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse against its personnel in the first quarter of 2019, according to one of its spokespersons.

The United Nations has warned that the threat of a nuclear weapon being used is now “higher than it has been in generations.”

ABUJA — United Nations, weekend, challenged the Federal Government and all stakeholders in the upcoming general elections to work harder at ensuring that the outcome of the exercise was acceptable to all and sundry.

Nigeria needs no fewer than $337 billion to implement Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, from 2019 to 2022, the United Nations Support Plan for the Sahel has estimated.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said it plans to send a team of investigators to Aleppo after reports emerged of an alleged poison gas attack in the Northern Syrian City.

International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law, ISCL&RL, has recommended that if Veto Power must be retained at the United Nations Security Council, UNSC, then single veto power must be eliminated and replaced with collective veto power of the five permanent members. 

Topnotch Nigerian entertainers, Omotola Jalade-Ekehinde, Davido and others have been named among the most influential 100 people of African descent by the United Nations. 

At least two million Afghans are at risk of severe food insecurity due to a devastating drought in the country, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.

Nigeria has paid its regular UN dues for 2018, making it the 74th out of the 193 member states of the global international organisation to fulfill its financial obligations.

Canadian peacekeepers backed by helicopters will join UN Blue Helmets in the troubled west African nation of Mali before autumn, a government source said on Friday.