Nigerian Set To Emerge As UN General Assembly President

Nigerian, Professor Tijjani Muhammad Bande, the perpetual agent of Nigeria to the United Nations, is set to turn into the following President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Concise News has learned.

On the off chance that he is chosen, he would be the second Nigerian to direct the get together which was set up in 1946. A Nigerian, Joseph Nanven Garba directed the UNGA in 1989.

The administration of the UNGA changes each year between the five geographic gatherings: African, Asian, Eastern European, Latin American and Caribbean, and Western European.

The present UNGA president, Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garcès who is from Ecuador, expected the administration in September 2018.

She dropped the indication on Monday that a Nigerian will succeed her as the UNGA president toward the finish of a gathering with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja.

Tending to the press together with the Nigerian outside issues serve, Geoffrey Onyeama, the UNGA president said she's searching forward for a smooth change.

She stated: "Anticipating a progress, decent and smooth change to the approaching leader of the General Assembly, a Nigerian negotiator and educator that is truly putting the name of Nigeria higher.

I'm anticipating proceed with this smooth and compose change to the following administration."

As far as concerns him, the Foreign Affairs Minister said ideally the active UNGA president will hand over to Professor Bande.

"The leader of UN General Assembly will ideally be giving over as President of the General Assembly to a Nigerian.

"Thus, Nigeria will accept the administration ideally in a couple of months time, in the individual of Nigeria's perpetual agent to the United Nations (UN), Professor Tijjani Bande," he said.

Bande, a previous chief general of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) Kuru, Plateau state was conceived in Kebbi State in 1957.

He holds M.A in Political Science from the Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 1981 and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, Canada in 1987.

He was the Vice-Chancellor Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, somewhere in the range of 2004 and 2009.