Tuesday, October 20, 2026 - President Bola Tinubu has received copies of the proposed 2027 United Nations budget from Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Jimoh Ibrahim.
Ibrahim, who chairs the UN committee responsible for
budgetary and administrative matters, presented the seven-volume document to
the President at the State House, Abuja.
Speaking to journalists after the presentation, Ibrahim
described the occasion as historic, saying it was the first time in 66 years
that a Nigerian president had received the proposed UN budget through the
process.
He said, “This is the presentation of the United Nations
proposed budget for 2027 that was presented to me by the General Assembly, by
the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the Fifth Committee, and that
budget has seven volumes.
“So it has to be presented to my country because my country
is a member of the United Nations. I share the budget at the committee, so the
appropriate thing to do is to bring the budget home and deliver it to the
President.
“This is the first time in 66 years that Nigeria will share
budget in the committee. The first time. So I don’t know when we’re going to do
that again in history.”
Ibrahim added, “President Bola Tinubu is making history to
have been able to receive that budget, being the first President in 66 years
that will receive such budget from the United Nations, and it’s not a small
issue for a country to receive the whole UN budget.”
He said the proposed budget covered the organisation’s
regular activities and peacekeeping operations, with approximately $3.4bn
allocated to the regular budget and $8.5bn for peacekeeping.
Ibrahim put the total at about $14bn, although the figures
he cited for the two components add up to $11.9bn.
He stressed that the document was still a proposal and had
not received final approval from UN member states.
“The budget still has to be approved. This is a proposed
budget. It’s at the proposed stage. You submit it to your country, and
thereafter the budget is finally discussed. Figures are adjusted, and then
finally the final budget is approved and spending commences,” he said.
Asked about
the support Nigeria could receive from the UN, Ibrahim said discussions on the
proposed budget were ongoing and declined to specify what Nigeria might benefit
from it.
He also
cited the construction of a $267m UN conference centre in Kenya as an example
of the organisation’s investment in facilities in member states.
The proposed
budget will undergo further scrutiny and adjustments before member states
approve the final figures and spending begins.
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