Advertising spending on US primaries surpasses $1 bn ―Monitor
Advertising spending on the US presidential primaries has surpassed an “unprecedented” $1 billion, half of which came from the coffers of billionaire Democratic White House hopeful Michael Bloomberg, a tracking firm said Friday. The former New York mayor, who was the ninth richest man in the world last year, has spent $539 million on television […]
Speech: The open society endangered ― Wole Soyinka
(Being a talk delivered at the UN World Anti-Corruption Day, Abuja, Dec. 9. 2019) Present here, I fully expect, is the youth contingent of this undertaking. We are still within the United Nations designated Year of the Child, and that makes youth involvement doubly appropriate as an integral part of our encounter. This is […]
Brazil could lose its UN vote due to $400m debt ― Officials
The Federal Republic of Brazil risks losing its vote at the United Nations (U.N.) unless it pays some of the $400 million it owes before the end of the year. The largest country in both South America and Latin America according to VOA News report accrued a debt of $415.8 million of which $143 million […]
People on survival brink increased by 22 million ― UN Report
One in every 45 people in the world – a record 168 million – will need humanitarian assistance in 2020, according to a United Nations report released on Wednesday. The number of people on the brink of survival has grown by 22 million over the past year due to violent and protracted conflicts, climate change-related […]
We’re living in hottest decade on record, says UN
Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General to The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has said that the current decade is on track to be the hottest on record. Taalas who made the remark on Tuesday at the UN climate summit in Madrid, said, “We are nowhere near on track to meet the Paris Agreement target. “If we do not […]
Hate Speech Bill: UN condemns death penalty
ABUJA-THE United Nations has condemned the prescription of death sentence in the Hate Speech Bill which is before the National Assembly.
