UN humanitarian partners have delivered food and nutrition assistance to no fewer than 26,000 people in the past week in the town of Rann, Northeast Nigeria.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has paid tribute to former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who was assassinated during a political event earlier on Friday.

The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) says Nigeria’s crude oil production increased to an average of 1.238 million barrels per day (bpd) in June 2022.

Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is dead, after being shot during an election campaign event on Friday morning.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Ozonnia Ojielo of Nigeria as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Rwanda, with the host Government’s approval.

Scandal-ridden Boris Johnson announced on Thursday he would quit as British prime minister after he dramatically lost the support of his ministers and most Conservative lawmakers, but said he would stay on a caretaker basis until his successor was chosen.

On Tuesday, the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance (MoF) announced that it had signed a third-party implementation agreement with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) to rehabilitate infrastructure projects in the East African country’s northern Tigray region.

Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was shot on Friday while delivering a speech ahead of a parliamentary election, with public broadcaster NHK saying a man armed with an apparently homemade gun opened fire at him from behind.