Tinubu receives UN’s proposed $14bn 2027 budget

President Bola Tinubu has received the United Nations’ proposed $14bn budget for 2027, a first for a Nigerian president in 66 years, an envoy has said.

It’s not a small issue for a country to receive the whole UN budget.

Giving details on the $14bn budget, Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Jimoh Ibrahim, said, “The budget is about $3.4bn for the regular budget and about $8.5bn for peacekeeping.”

We do not know when we will have this chance again in history. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the first President in 66 years to receive the UN budget.

The Fifth Committee, one of the General Assembly’s six main committees, reviews and approves the UN’s budget. Ibrahim, a former senator, was elected its chairman in June.