President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has urged the United Nations to either embrace sweeping reforms or risk losing relevance.
The president made the call in his address to the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday.
Represented by his Vice, Kassim Shettima, the president highlighted four key reform demands, starting with Nigeria’s call for permanent UN Security Council membership.
Tinubu stressed Nigeria’s transformation from a colony of 20 million people, absent from the tables where decisions about our fate were taken to a sovereign nation of over 236 million, projected to be the third most populous country in the world, with one of the youngest and most dynamic populations on earth.
He also expressed deep frustration with the pace of international progress on critical issues, from nuclear disarmament to Security Council reform.