By Ikugbadi Oluwasegun
Yusuf Tuggar, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has canvassed Africa’s permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council while advocating for Nigeria’s suitability to represent Africa on the global body.

The Foreign Affairs Minister was speaking during a panel discussion themed, “Africa’s Momentum” at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Sweden.
In his submissions, Yusuf Tuggar stated that about 60 percent of the UN Security Council’s resolutions bother on issues relating to Africa yet excluded from having a permanent seat.
He explained that many of the laws promulgated by the Council have adverse implications for Africa including the Deforestation Law which bans the purchase of produce from deforested land in Africa while ignoring the technological companies that produce the machineries that enable deforestation on the continent.
While enumerating Nigeria’s leadership role, Tuggar assured that Nigeria’s non-threatening nature has earned the trust of its neighbours who support Nigeria to represent them globally.
Similarly, Nigeria being the only African country with a permanent seat in the African Union’s Peace and Security Council, Tuggar underscored the need for Nigeria to be at the table just as the G20 which was created to review global economic and financial issues such as the utilization of Special Drawing Rights to fund the energy transition in Africa.
The Minister further advocated to reconsider promises made by developed nations to developing countries at Rio Summit on the transfer of technologies.