Nigeria and the United Nations

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Federal Republic of Nigeria
Flag of the United Nations.svg Flag of Nigeria.svg
United Nations membership
MembershipFull member
Since7 October 1960 (1960-10-07)
UNSC seat Non-permanent
Permanent Representative Tijjani Muhammad-Bande

Nigeria is a member of the United Nations . Nigeria did not become independent from the United Kingdom until 1960, while the United Nations had already been established by the Declaration by United Nations in 1942. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande is the permanent representative of Nigeria. [1]

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In 2013, Nigeria contributed the fifth largest number of peacekeepers to United Nations peacekeeping operations. [2] [3] Nigeria has recently served a two-year term from 2014–2015 as a temporary member of the United Nations Security Council. The United Nations helped negotiate adjusting the border of Nigeria and Cameroon resulting in the Greentree Agreement in 2006. [4]

List of permanent representatives

#PortraitName

(birth–death)

StartEnd President/

Head of State

1 Jaja Wachuku at UN New York USA.jpg Jaja Wachukwu

(1904–1996)

7 October 19601961 Nnamdi Azikiwe
2Muhammad Ngileruma [5]

(1908–1968)

1961 [6] 1962
3 Simeon Adebo [7]

(1913–1994)

19621967Nnamdi Azikwe

Nwafor Orizu

Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi

4 [8] Edwin Ogebe Ogbu

(1926–1997)

1968 [9] 1975 Yakubu Gowon
5 [10] [11] Leslie O. Harriman [12] [13]

(1930–1995)

1975 [14] 1979 [15] Murtala Mohammed

Olusegun Obasanjo

6 Portrait of Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule.jpg Yusuf Maitama Sule

(1929–2017)

19791983 Shehu Shagari
7 Joseph Nanven Garba

(1943–2002) [16]

19841990 Muhammadu Buhari

Ibrahim Babangida

8 Ibrahim Gambari, UNDP-USA-159HR-09 crop.jpg Ibrahim Gambari

(b. 1944) [17]

19901999Ibrahim Babangida

Ernest Shonekan

Sani Abacha

Abdulsalami Abubakar

9Arthur Christopher Mbanefo [18]

(b. 1930)

1999 [19] 2004Olusegun Obasanjo

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

10 Aminu Bashir Wali

(b. 1941)

2004 [20] [21] 2007
11 [22] Joy Angela Ogwu

(b. 1946)

7 May 20083 May 2017Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

Goodluck Jonathan

Muhammadu Buhari

12 Tijjani Muhammad-Bande (48791461812) (cropped).jpg Tijjani Muhammad-Bande

(b. 1957)

3 May 2017 [23] present [24] Muhammadu Buhari

Bola Ahmed Tinubu

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  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-10-01. Retrieved 2017-06-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-08-06. Retrieved 2017-06-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ↑ Agbakwuru, Johnbosco (11 June 2014). "Nigeria: UN Boundary Adjustment Nigeria: UN Boundary Adjustment - Nigeria May Lose Obudu Resort, Agbokim Waterfalls to Cameroon - Ndoma-Egba". Vanguard . Lagos. Archived from the original on 17 June 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2014– via allafrica.com.
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  6. ↑ "LETTER DATED 3 NOVEMBER 1961 FROM THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES OF ETHIOPIA, NIGERIA AND SUDAN ADDRESSED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL" (PDF).
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