A Nigerian 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, the 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, between 2004 and 2009.
