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Assistant Director-General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and Regional Director for Africa, Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, says the universal ratification of…
Trade and Development Report 2020 by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) says in the face of a…
Current security approach to the worsening insecurity in Nigeria is not likely to bring an enduring solution to the nightmare.…
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says the level of food insecurity in Nigeria, occasioned by the COVID-19 crisis,…
The rampaging COVID-19 crisis is currently stoking a fresh oil revenue trouble in the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s main oil and…
Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) says the Nigerian government is acting in the reverse direction in the face of…
The theme of this year’s International Literacy Day is: Literacy Teaching and Learning in the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond With…
The United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has advocated a five-point roadmap to transform tourism in some key…
“Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.” Lord Acton It is a…
The worrisome hunger situation in Africa is currently throwing into further doubt, the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 2 on…
Director-General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Guy Ryder, has welcomed the commitment and determination of world leaders to build…
The worrisome hunger situation in Africa is currently throwing into further doubt, the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 2 on…
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has launched the 2020 edition of its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Pulse,…
Weighed down by the harsh effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, most agribusiness operators in Nigeria say the rampaging virus is…
Programmes designed to end child marriage and female genital mutilation(FGM) are facing serious delays in implementation as a result of…
A 26-year-old Ethiopian migrant, Ahmed, spent 20 days travelling from Ethiopia to Djibouti on foot, bound for the coastal town…
Some of the measures adopted by governments to confront the COVID-19 crisis may offer other important benefits in the longer…
After two decades of progress, there are growing concerns within the United Nations that child labour will spike as a…
Amid the raging COVID-19 crisis, a trade and development report update by a UN agency has set out how South-South…
The International Organisation for Migration has published a new, pioneering guidance for member states on the regulation of international recruitment…
Director-General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, has outlined options through which the Institute can strengthen…
Kiribati, a low-lying island nation is currently giving a fresh impetus to its efforts to harness the development gains of…
G7 countries are currently under intense pressure to put in place measures to promote gender equality amid the COVID-19 crisis.…
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) in a new analysis is urging developing countries to transform their ad hoc COVID-19 crisis…
In light of the COVID-19 crisis, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Secretary-General, Mukhisa Kituyi, discusses how to…
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) says the raging COVID-19 pandemic and some of the measures to contain it are putting women’s…
The international narrative on the COVID-19 crisis is currently a source of worry to the Senior Cotton and Textiles Lead…
Significant levels of lockdown-related disruption over six months could lead to a projected seven million unintended pregnancies. It could also…
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) wants governments to use the COVID-19 crisis as a wake-up call to strengthen their social…