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- 17 Aug 2022
UN Secretary General Appoints Gbenga Sesan on Internet Governance Forum
António Guterres, UN Secretary General has appointed a Nigerian social entrepreneur, Gbenga Sesan to serve on his inaugural Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Leadership Panel. The UN chief also…
- 28 Sept 2010
ITU Secretary-General Tasks World Leaders on Broadband Access
Dr Hamadoun Touré, ITU Secretary-General has challenged global leaders to ensure that more than half of all the world’s people have access to broadband networks by 2015, and make access to high-speed…
- 11 Oct 2021
UN, ITU Tap into AI Tech to Improve Road Safety Globally
The United Nations (UN) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven road safety initiative, targeting low- and middle-income countries.…
- 13 Nov 2017
Nigeria’s UN Boss in Trouble over Illicit $300m Timber Export
Amina Mohammed, UN deputy secretary-general is facing accusations from an advocacy group that she granted illegal permits to Chinese firms to import endangered Nigerian timber when she was Nigeria’s…
- 31 Jan 2013
World Loses $260Bn from Poor Water, Sanitation- Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian President issued a stark warning in Monrovia on Wednesday to the UN Secretary-General's High-level Panel that is meeting this week to address the future of…
- 10 Jan 2015
UN Sees Jonathan, Buhari Contest as ‘Grave Test’
Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, secretary general of United Nations (UN), has expressed profound concern about the forthcoming Nigerian election, calling the presidential polls between President…
- 8 Dec 2016
Internet Access is Vital to Addressing Poverty, Climate Change – UN Scribe
Access to information and communications technology has been termed necessary to address the challenges of poverty and climate change. Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, stated this in his message to…
- 22 Apr 2013
UN, AfDB, Others Agree to Share Data for Development
Ban Ki-Moon, UN secretary-general along with leaders of six multilateral financial institutions, have announced that they would strengthen inter-agency sharing and collaboration on issues related to…
- 21 Feb 2015
UN Worries over Nigeria’s Election, Warns against another Shift
Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general yesterday urged Nigeria to avoid another delay in holding elections and expressed concern over election-related violence. Nigeria pushed back the presidential and…
- 14 May 2018
Breakthrough in Education Funding could help Over 8million Nigerian Children- Education Commission
.Youth activists deliver petition with 1.5 million signatures calling for the biggest global investment in education history .United Nations Secretary-General, World Bank, and Regional Development…
- 14 Feb 2020
Africa's Female Fund Managers Receive Boost with Launch of a Multi-Million Dollar Fund
African leaders are putting women front and center of efforts to drive the continent’s economic growth through a game-changing fund that invests in women fund managers and also provides technical…
- 21 Nov 2017
Concerns as Chinese Importers Smuggle $300m Rosewood Logs from Nigeria
Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) in its recent reports has revealed that over 1.4 million illegal rosewood logs from Nigeria, worth $300 million, were laundered into China. The reports…
- 17 May 2016
WTIS Day Focuses on ‘ICT Entrepreneurship for Social Impact’
World Telecommunication and Information Society celebrated the fact that billions of people around the world are now connected to a smart, networked environment and looked ahead to new and previously…
- 8 Oct 2015
Dangote Renews Sponsorship of Facetime within ‘CNN Marketplace Africa’
Dangote Industries Limited, one of Africa’s largest business conglomerates is deepening its relationship with CNN International by renewing on-air and digital sponsorship of the prestigious…
- 16 Jun 2016
UN Launches Search for Exceptional Young Leaders On SDGs
The United Nations on Thursday launched a new initiative to recognize exceptional young people who are leaders in the effort to end poverty, combat climate change and reduce inequalities.…
- 21 Sept 2021
Global Initiative to Give 3.4bn People Access to Smartphones
An initiative has been launched by Vodafone Group and the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU), to address the global digital divide. It aims to give an additional 3.4 billion people the…
- 26 Jun 2016
UN Unveils Common Ground Initiative with Advertising’s ‘Big Six’ for SDGs
Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General at the weekend, announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind initiative developed among the six largest communications businesses globally in support of…
- 23 May 2013
World Water Supply is Increasingly Insecure -UN
United Nations has said that as the international community strives to accelerate its efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and define a post-2015 agenda, including a set of goals…
- 18 Mar 2021
Empowering Women in Critical Sectors to Challenge the Status quo
By Lamin Manjang Although women's rights have seen a significant positive change in the last decade, it remains a critical topic of conversation across various sectors in different parts of the…
- 17 Jun 2025
Gbenga Sesan to review ‘The Village Priest’ @2025 Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum
Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative (PIN), Mr. Gbenga Sesan would be the reviewer of the latest book “The Village Priest” by Ogbuefi Remmy Nweke at the forthcoming Nigeria DigitalSENSE Africa…
- 17 Jun 2013
Water Everywhere but Only 2.5% is Freshwater
Freshwater is valuable, however, of all the water on Earth, only 2.5 per cent is freshwater, says the United Nations. Regrettable, of all this freshwater, the total usable supply for ecosystems and…
- 26 Sept 2015
New UN Report says 3Q of Women & Girls Exposed to Cyber Violence
A new report released by the United Nations Broadband Commission reveals that almost three quarters of women online have been exposed to some form of cyber violence, and urges governments and…
- 29 May 2020
UN Launches Global Initiative to Protect Cyber Space
The United Nations (UN) is inviting people across the globe to join its new initiative to fight the spread of hate speech and fake news online amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Verified initiative…
- 24 Mar 2014
Broadband Must Be Recognized As a Vital Development Enabler
UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development which met in Dublin this weekend has said that access to broadband could be the universal catalyst that lifts developing countries out of poverty and…
- 3 May 2016
Nigeria Missing as 18 winners Emerged in WSIS 2016 Prizes
Houlin Zhao, ITU Secretary-General has announced the 18 winners of the WSIS Prizes 2016 at the WSIS High-Level Opening Segment, which was held at the Geneva International Conference Centre (CICG). No…
- 20 Jul 2026
UN Raises Alarm Over Terrorists’ Use of Drones and Cryptocurrencies in Northern Nigeria
United Nations (UN) has warned that terrorist groups operating in northern Nigeria, West Africa and the Sahel are increasingly deploying drones, sophisticated communication technologies and…
- 2 Nov 2017
Queen Maxima Pays Scheduled Visit to NCC
Nigerian Communications Commission NCC has played host to Her Majesty, Queen Maxima of the Kingdom of The Netherlands, as part of her global itinerary for advocacy on financial inclusiveness to…
- 13 Dec 2016
UN Empower Women Names Okolo, Lift Saxum Founder Global Champion
Barrister Nwanneka Okolo, founder of the foremost capacity building and skills development NGO in the South East, Lift Saxum, has been nominated a UN Women Empower Women 2016-2017 Champion for…
- 14 Sept 2017
Taylor, Asks CTO Members to Invest in Broadband to Tap IoT,AI Evolution
Shola Taylor, secretary-general of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, has warned of the risk of many countries missing out on the benefits of IoT, Big Data, AI and augmented reality…
- 20 Jul 2025
UN Appoints Sa’id, Nigerian to Nuclear Panel
In a historic announcement, António Guterres, United Nations secretary-general has named Professor Rabia Sa’id, a Nigerian physicist, to a newly established global independent scientific panel tasked…