{"id":44453,"date":"2021-06-03T17:49:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T17:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=44453"},"modified":"2021-06-03T15:40:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:40:50","slug":"covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 funds were diverted in countries \u2013 UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, on Wednesday, said inadequate oversight and transparency led to the diversion of COVID-19 funds in some countries.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed made the remark at the UN-General Assembly Special Session on Corruption (UNGASS) at UN headquarters in New York, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>The theme is \u201cChallenges and Measures to Prevent and Combat Corruption and Strengthen International Cooperation\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrest woman for beating co-wife to death, setting her ablaze<\/p>\n<p>The official noted that the UN System Common Position on Corruption, which coordinates support for member states, sets out measures for integration of anti-corruption processes nationally and locally.<\/p>\n<p>The world body urged countries to restore public trust by taking concrete actions to eliminate corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed said social protests had sent a clear message that people would not tolerate cynical, corrupt practices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are demanding transformation of legal, political, economic and social structures that have long been indifferent to accountability and transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PDP raises alarm as NNPC plans to acquire Dangote Refinery shares<\/p>\n<p>She added that corruption disproportionately impacts women, limiting their access to public resources, information and decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt fosters organised crime and the exploitation of natural resources\u201d, said Mohammed, a former Environment Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa will present Nigeria\u2019s position at the Special Session.<\/p>\n<p>Kwara ex-Gov, Abdulfatah Ahmed explains why EFCC invited him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, on Wednesday, said inadequate oversight and transparency led to the diversion of COVID-19 funds in some countries. Mohammed made the remark at the UN-General Assembly Special Session on Corruption (UNGASS) at UN headquarters in New York, NAN reports. The theme is \u201cChallenges and Measures to Prevent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":44452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1438,28,26],"tags":[1570,2140,4433,1585,254,332],"class_list":["post-44453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-amina-mohammed","tag-covid-19-2","tag-nigeria","tag-un"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COVID-19 funds were diverted in countries \u2013 UN - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, on Wednesday, said inadequate oversight and transparency led to ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19 funds were diverted in countries \u2013 UN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, on Wednesday, said inadequate oversight and transparency led to ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-03T17:49:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60b8f7a8980bc.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"COVID-19 funds were diverted in countries \u2013 UN\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-03T17:49:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un\"},\"wordCount\":233,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60b8f7a8980bc.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Amina Mohammed\",\"Covid-19\",\"Nigeria\",\"UN\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un\",\"name\":\"COVID-19 funds were diverted in countries \u2013 UN - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60b8f7a8980bc.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-03T17:49:27+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, on Wednesday, said inadequate oversight and transparency led to ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60b8f7a8980bc.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60b8f7a8980bc.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":675,\"caption\":\"COVID-19 funds were diverted in countries \u2013 UN\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"COVID-19 funds were diverted in countries \u2013 UN\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"COVID-19 funds were diverted in countries \u2013 UN - Nigeria","description":"Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, on Wednesday, said inadequate oversight and transparency led to ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"COVID-19 funds were diverted in countries \u2013 UN","og_description":"Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, on Wednesday, said inadequate oversight and transparency led to ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2021-06-03T17:49:27+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":675,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60b8f7a8980bc.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"COVID-19 funds were diverted in countries \u2013 UN","datePublished":"2021-06-03T17:49:27+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un"},"wordCount":233,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60b8f7a8980bc.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","Amina Mohammed","Covid-19","Nigeria","UN"],"articleSection":["all news","Coronavirus in Nigeria","homepage-english","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un","name":"COVID-19 funds were diverted in countries \u2013 UN - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60b8f7a8980bc.jpg","datePublished":"2021-06-03T17:49:27+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, on Wednesday, said inadequate oversight and transparency led to ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60b8f7a8980bc.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60b8f7a8980bc.jpg","width":1200,"height":675,"caption":"COVID-19 funds were diverted in countries \u2013 UN"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-funds-were-diverted-in-countries-un#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"COVID-19 funds were diverted in countries \u2013 UN"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}