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. Jimoh Ibrahim is the permanent representative of Nigeria.
In 2013, Nigeria contributed the fifth largest number of peacekeepers to United Nations peacekeeping operations. 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.
List of permanent representatives #PortraitNameStartEndPresident/ Head of State1Jaja Wachuku7 October 19601961Nnamdi Azikiwe2Muhammad Ngileruma196119623Simeon Adebo19621967Nnamdi Azikwe Nwafor Orizu
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi4Edwin Ogebe Ogbu19681975Yakubu Gowon5Leslie O. Harriman19751979Murtala Mohammed Olusegun Obasanjo6 Yusuf Maitama Sule19791983Shehu Shagari7Joseph Nanven Garba19841990Muhammadu Buhari Ibrahim Babangida8Ibrahim Gambari19901999Ibrahim Babangida Ernest Shonekan
Sani Abacha
Abdulsalami Abubakar9Arthur Christopher Mbanefo19992004Olusegun Obasanjo Umaru Musa Yar'Adua10Aminu Bashir Wali2004200711Joy Angela Ogwu7 May 20083 May 2017Umaru Musa Yar'Adua Goodluck Jonathan
Muhammadu Buhari12Tijjani Muhammad-Bande3 May 201712 February 2024Muhammadu Buhari Bola Tinubu13Samson Itegboje12 February 2024presentBola Tinubu14Jimoh IbrahimAmbassador-designateBola Tinubu
See also
List of countries by number of UN peacekeepers List of members of the United Nations Security Council
References
External links Official Website of Nigeria's UN Mission