Nigeria has paid its regular UN dues for 2018, making it the 74th out of the 193 Member States of the global international organisation to fulfill its financial obligations.
Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric said in New York that Nigeria paid its annual dues in full.
Dujarric said: “Nigeria has paid its regular budget dues in full, bringing the Honour Roll to 74”. Checks by the Correspondent in New York showed that Nigeria paid 5,080,178 dollars on April 5th.
One hundred and nineteen members are yet to pay their regular budgets. The records also reports that Nigeria became the 10th country in Africa to pay its UN regular budgets in full.
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*I thot Nigeria is broke?
Nigeria is not broke. It is the people who are inside Nigeria that are broke.
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Iffa hear say Nigeria broke 👂...
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Nigeria my country... I hail thee
ReplyDeleteThey needed to pay it so they can continue to get the aids/grants from UN
ReplyDeleteBroke me when Ajala is busy spending our recovered fund. Money dey
ReplyDeleteInterpretation of Poli-tricks
ReplyDeleteThey've got to pay. If them no pay, all the
"chop funds" from UN agencies, Bill gates, EU, USAID etc.
no go come for poli-tricksters to chop. Again, this is
election year approaching and it is bad optics that Nigeria,
the 8th largest oil exporter is owing UNO a miserly $5 million.
Poli-tricks 101
Yes, the "foreign eyes" go close small for them stashed funds abroad.
DeleteIf UN calls them out, them do go fit sell their oil