The coronavirus pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and climate change have all hampered Africa’s progress toward meeting the Sustainable Development…
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More than 150 million school children globally are still missing out on meals and essential health and nutrition services. This is…
At last, the United Nations Climate Summit has come and drew the curtain with the Glasgow Climate Pact. But, beyond the political…
Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) are seriously undermining Africa’s potential to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There are growing concerns…
As governments respond with unprecedented spending to combat the coronavirus pandemic, a new report released by the United Nations Forum…
The Anambra State House of Assembly Committee on Sustainable Development Goals, (SDGs), Economic Planning and Donor Agencies wants contractors executing…
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has launched the 2020 edition of its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Pulse,…
The COVID-19 pandemic represents the greatest threat to humanity since World War II, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) says. Despite the…
The government played a very key role in attracting foreign investments. We built the infrastructures and provided well-planned industrial estates,…
Rising inequality, entrenched poverty and a deepening ecological crisis have led the global community to seek new models of business…
Human Rights Watch, a global human rights group, wants governments to end all discrimination in children’s access to education and urgently strengthen…
With nearly two billion people in seven countries including Nigeria, lacking access to the mainstream financial system of the world,…
Chairman of the new International Standard Organisation Technical Committee (ISO/TC 322) on Sustainable Finance, Peter J. Young, is putting up a compelling…
Extreme or moderate working poverty is expected to edge up this 2020 through 2021 in developing countries like Nigeria, thus,…
Nepal has launched a new Migration Profile that will help its workers to compete in global job markets. The Profile…
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a global organization of parliaments has said that strong institutions require international collaboration and widespread political support.…
It appears it is no longer business as usual for companies as far as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is…
Experts at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) Twelfth International Debt Management Conference, held at the United Nations…
On November 12, the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Dr, Mukhisa Kituyi, spoke at the…
Investment promotion agencies and special economic zone authorities from China, South Africa and Sri Lanka have won awards for their…
To address global food loss and waste which totals more than 1.3 billion tonnes a year, the Director-General of the…
Defaulters of Nigeria’s Gas flaring laws are now going to pay for their environmental sins in the vastly polluted oil…
At the 36th meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) last October ending…
The ability of countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is being threatened by illicit financial flows, the United…
Nigeria attaches great importance to the realization of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is underlined…
Lack of access to all-weather roads and transport services, is a major barrier to social and economic advancement, a damning…
The 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II recently told a moving story of how a mother watched her sick…
A fresh report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has unveiled the necessary conditions for meeting…
In the next decade, an estimated 60 million Africans will be at risk of being forced to move from degraded…
President Muhammadu Buhari says reducing extreme poverty and hunger is one of the cardinal objectives of his administration. The president…