Nigeria has been re-elected, for the 45th time, to chair the UN Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations, regarded as UN’s most strategic committee.
According to reports, the election was conducted by the Under-Secretary-General for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Herve Ladsous and the Chef de Cabinet of the UN Secretary-General, Maria Viotti.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, after the election, congratulated Nigeria on its re-election as well as other members of the committee.
Nigeria has chaired the special committee on peacekeeping operations from 1972 till date and is also the 14th largest troops contributor to UN Peacekeeping operations and eighth in Africa, according to the last data published by the UN Peacekeeping Department.
The data showed that Nigeria contributed 2,170 peacekeeping personnel in 2016, made up of 403 policemen, 46 military experts and 1, 721 troops, out of which 232 were females.
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