Nigeria and the United Nations
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| United Nations membership | |
|---|---|
| Membership | Full member |
| Since | 7 October 1960 |
| UNSC seat | Non-permanent |
| Permanent Representative | Jimoh Ibrahim (ambassador-designate) |
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]
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]
| # | Portrait | Name
(birth–death) |
Start | End | President/ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Jaja Wachuku
(1918–1996) |
7 October 1960 | 1961 | Nnamdi Azikiwe |
| 2 | Muhammad Ngileruma[5]
(1908–1968) |
1961[6] | 1962 | ||
| 3 | Simeon Adebo[7]
(1913–1994) |
1962 | 1967 | Nnamdi Azikwe | |
| 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 |
| 6 |  |
Yusuf Maitama Sule
(1929–2017) |
1979 | 1983 | Shehu Shagari |
| 7 | Joseph Nanven Garba
(1943–2002)[16] |
1984 | 1990 | Muhammadu Buhari | |
| 8 |  |
Ibrahim Gambari
(b. 1944)[17] |
1990 | 1999 | Ibrahim Babangida |
| 9 | Arthur Christopher Mbanefo[18]
(b. 1930) |
1999[19] | 2004 | Olusegun Obasanjo | |
| 10 | Aminu Bashir Wali
(b. 1941) |
2004[20][21] | 2007 | ||
| 11 | [22] | Joy Angela Ogwu
(1946–2025) |
7 May 2008 | 3 May 2017 | Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
Muhammadu Buhari |
| 12 | _(cropped).jpg) |
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande
(b. 1957) |
3 May 2017[23] | 12 February 2024[24] | Muhammadu Buhari |
| 13 | Samson Itegboje | 12 February 2024 | present | Bola Tinubu | |
| 14 | Jimoh Ibrahim | Ambassador-designate[25] | Bola Tinubu | ||
