NEWS

UN Collaborates to Ensure People Living with Disabilities Are No Longer Deprived

Daily Dispatch November 26, 2024

The United Nations is collaborating with Nigerian government to ensure that people living with disabilities in the country are not shortchanged neither deprived because of their condition. The United Nations on Tuesday conveyed the Review and Validation of the Situation Analysis on the Rights

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UN representative calls for increase in role of women in shifting global geopolitics

Daily Dispatch November 24, 2024

…says no country can develop with high rate of gender inequalities and the feminization of under-development. THE Chairperson of the 12th anniversary Lecture of Realnews Magazine, Beatrice Eyong, says that Africa must positively improve the conditions and status of its women and girls in order to take its place in the world shifting geopolitics. Speaking […]

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UN Women Empowers Over 200 Ebonyi Rural Women

Daily Dispatch November 9, 2024

UN Women has empowered over 200 rural women farmers in Ebonyi State through the distribution of fertilizers, improved rice seedlings, and the launch of a Low-cost Biogas Production Project. These initiatives support food security, boost productivity, and improve household incomes, aligning with Nigeria’s economic goals and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on food

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UN Restates Commitment to Nigeria’s Achieving SDGs

Daily Dispatch October 24, 2024

The United Nations systems in Nigeria has restated continued commitment to support Nigeria achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) The UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria Mohammed Fall disclosed this at a press conference to mark the UN Day, in Abuja Fall who also said that for UN to achieve SDGs, Nigeria must first achieve it, […]

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UN, FG harp on the importance of data in decision-making

Daily Dispatch November 28, 2023

The need to prioritise data visualization in decision-making processes has been reiterated by the United Nations (UN), Federal Government, and the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The bodies expressed the imperative of data in the decision-making process at the official launch of “Nigeria Visualised Project” on Monday night in Abuja. The programme was put together […]

HEALTH

UN announces 12 African countries to receive malaria vaccine

Daily Dispatch July 6, 2023

The World Health Organisation, WHO, Global Vaccine Alliance (GAVI) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have announced that twelve African countries would receive the malaria vaccine. The agencies, in a statement issued on Wednesday, disclosed that the nations would receive eighteen million doses of the first-ever vaccine against malaria over the next two years. The […]