Tag: BANDE
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Nigerian, Bande presides at U.N. General Assembly, promises to tackle poverty
By Dayo Benson New York It was a day of diplomatic honor and national glory as Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and current President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Prof Tijani Muhammad Bande, yesterday in New York presided at the opening ceremony of Assembly’s 74th Session. Prof Bande who spoke at…
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Nigeria re-elected UN Peacekeeping Committee chair
The Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations, Prof. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, has been re-elected Chair of the United Nations Special Committee on Peacekeeping known as C-34. Muhammad-Bande was re-elected by acclamation at the United Nations Headquarters in New York during opening of the 2019 Session. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the…