UN News
In June, Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, was elected by acclamation to preside over the 74th session of the General Assembly in New York.
In his first major interview with UN News, Muhammad-Bande highlighted poverty eradication, quality education, and inclusion as his top priorities.
The new General Assembly President has had an outstanding academic career in political science, in which he received a B.Sc from Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria, an MA from Boston University in the United States, and a Ph.D from the University of Toronto, Canada.
He has been the recipient of many awards and honours, most notably, Nigeria’s Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR); one of his homeland’s highest honours.
In terms of the coming year, he tells UN News that “education is really a complex matter. Whoever is denied an education is denied almost everything.”
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