{"id":3380,"date":"2023-09-22T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2023-09-22T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:27:14","slug":"president-tinubu-addresses-world-leaders-at-unga-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/president-tinubu-addresses-world-leaders-at-unga-78\/","title":{"rendered":"President Tinubu Addresses World Leaders at UNGA 78"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Tinubu made his first appearance as Nigeria\u2019s President at the 78<sup>th<\/sup> United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), with the theme, \u2018Rebuilding trust and reigning global solidarity\u2019 in New York on Tuesday, September 19. \u00a0The five key issues highlighted by the President in his speech border on economic co-operation, democratic governance, insecurity, illegal exploration of mineral resources and climate change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Tinubu called on other countries to pursue enhanced\ninternational co-operation with Africa for the actualisation of the 2030 agenda\nand Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He stated that Nigeria welcomes partnerships with those who\ndo not mind seeing Nigeria and Africa assume larger roles in the global\ncommunity. He noted that direct investment\nin critical industries, with the rest of\nthe world opening their ports to a wider range and larger\nquantity of African exports and meaningful debt relief are important aspects of\nthe cooperation sought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the wave of military coups across Africa, President Tinubu noted that\nthese coups do not demonstrate favour towards military regime but a demand for solutions to\nperennial problems. He expressed his commitment to help re-establish democratic governance in a manner that addresses\nthe political and economic challenges in Niger\nRepublic, in his capacity as Chairman of the Economic Community of West African\nStates (ECOWAS). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While pledging to the disbandment of terrorist groups within the African\nregion, President Bola Tinubu called on the international community to\nstrengthen its commitment to arrest the flow of arms and violent people into\nWest Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the issue of illegal mineral exploration, President Tinubu implored Member\nStates of the United Nations to deter their firms and nationals from engaging\nin the pillage of African resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Tinubu made his first appearance as Nigeria\u2019s President at the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), with the theme, \u2018Rebuilding trust and reigning global solidarity\u2019 in New York on Tuesday, September 19. \u00a0The five key issues highlighted by the President in his speech border on economic co-operation, democratic governance, insecurity, illegal exploration of mineral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}