Professor Tijjani Mohammad Bande is the new President of the
United Nations (UN) General Assembly.
Outgoing president of the UN GA, María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés
disclosed this today in a joint media briefing with the Foreign
Affairs minister, Geoffrey Onyeama at the State House.
The announcement was made after a meeting with President
Muhammad Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Bande, is the permanent representative of Nigeria to UN.
Bande, a former director-general of the National Institute of
Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Plateau State was born at Zagga
in present day Kebbi State.
He holds a M.A in Political Science from the Boston University,
Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 1981 and a PhD in Political Science
from the University of Toronto, Canada in 1987.
He was the Vice-Chancellor Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto,
bewtwen 2004 and 2009.
Details soon.
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