President Muhammadu Buhari will address the 77th session of the high-level General Debate of the UN General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 21, 2022.
A revised provisional list of speakers released from the Office of the General Assembly President yesterday showed that Buhari would be the first speaker on the second day of the meeting.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Buhari would be the fourth African leader to address the General Assembly and the first speaker on the second day of the session.
The Nigerian president would deliver his address around 9 am (around 2 pm Nigerian time) to other world leaders during the morning session while leaders from four African countries would also speak at the session.
The president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro would be the first world leader to present his address to the 77th session as is tradition, followed by the United States (US) President Joe Biden, the traditional second speaker, being the host country.
The 77th session of the UN General Assembly is scheduled to take place between September 12 and 27, 2022, while the General Debate will take place between September 20 and 26.
The 77th session of the General Assembly opens on September 12, 2022, with the inauguration of a new president, Csaba Krösi of Hungary, who will take on the mantle for the next 12 months.
The president of the 76th session Abdulla Shahid of the Maldives will bow out that day.
Meanwhile, the Transforming Education Summit is billed as a major event at the session.
September 16 is “Mobilisation Day” which will be youth-led and youth-organised, bringing young people’s concerns over their education to decisions and policymakers.
The federal government yesterday took a major step towards finally resolving its faceoff with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) by setting up a tactical committee to review the no-work no-pay policy which the striking lecturers have kicked against.
The lecturers’ union insists that its members have to be paid for the period they were on strike before they return to work.
