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I’m going to pin this tweet for all the serious UN folks following me. I love it. Trust me, I love it. It feeds well into my need for validation. Problem is, I don’t always tweet UN. I mostly rant about Nigeria and how it is showing me shege. Ask me what shege means 😀

@Kapitan_Joey @TheYemiKing @amuta_ann Lmao, it’s how Nigerians always remember this tweet every time there is a policy shift.

Tell us, @amuta_ann, what’s the current approval rate for EB-1 (and perhaps EB-2), compared to the past administration’s figures? Madam “he is only against illegal immigration”

The UN Security Council discusses the first report from the Trump-led Board of Peace re Gaza Here is the doc img.haarets.co.il/bs/0000019e-41…

Co sponsorship now up to 136 on the #Hormuz draft

As I underlined in my recent address to the LA World Affairs Council, the UN must to a better job of telling its story to the world. The next UNSYG must think hard & holistically about how to restore the UN's relevancy & image on matters of war & peace. @UN @pass_blue

N20,000 in 1980 = $36,363 N20,000 in 2026 = $14.76 $36,363 in 2026 = N49,271,865 You can’t even build a decent bungalow in same part of Lagos with that. Y’all are dishonest.

i’ve spent the past 7 months attempting to reconstruct and understand the strategy with which the boko haram army was formed. i’ve gone over more than 100 archival materials, spoken to a few first-generation members of the terror group, and victims. it’ll be out on wednesday!

"China does not have to do much to gain more influence around the UN when the US is pulling back. Beijing gains credibility and influence by default." Me to @pass_blue. passblue.com/2026/05/04/how…

How China Is Winning at the UN Without Even Trying passblue.com/2026/05/04/how…

To clarify, Iran nuclear programme went onto #UNSC "agenda" in 2006 & all 7 resolutions adopted 2006-2015 were put to a vote & adopted unanimously, not by consensus. Only other Iran drafts put to a vote thereafter - 1 in 2020 & 2 in 2025 - all related to triggering Snapback.

In 2026 as a black person, traveling to South Africa is a choice

📢News: The Africa Model on UNSC Reform presented to the UN General Assembly UNSC reform body On Monday 20 April Ambassador @MichaelKanuSL PR of Seirra Leone to the UN presented the African Model on @UN Security Council Reform at the Structured Dialogue of the General Assembly’s Intergovernmental Negotiations (#IGN). The African Model on UNSC reform has the following elements A) On categories of membership, it proposes the enlargement of the UNSC to involve both the permanent and elected categories of membership of the UNSC. It rejects any intermediary reform that does not involve expansion of both categories in their current format. B) On size of the Council, the model envisages no fewer than 26 seats with the permanent category having 11 seats including Africa receiving no less than 2 of those seats and the elected category having no fewer than 15 seats including five for Afria. C) On regional representation, it emphasises fair and equitable geographical representation that ensures representation of under represented regions and to reflect contemporary realities of the world. The @_AfricanUnion to select (similar to the current practice for non-permanent seats) Africas representatives that will take the seats in all categories. D) On veto power - the model upholds the Ezulwini consensus that Africa opposes the veto and welcomes its abolition. However, if the veto is maintained, the Africa Model calls for its extension to all permanent members. The Africa model rejects any intermediary models that allow permanenet membership wothout the veto. It treats it as perpetuation of the curent inequitable & hierarchical set up. E) On the relationship between the UNSC and General Assembly, it stipulates for a more harmonious, cooperative and constitutionally balanced relationship in which the two work closely with due respect to respective mandates. F) On working methods it proposes a more accessible, democratic, transparent and accountable Council and improvements in decision-making processes including ensuring consultative and participatory process through enhanced engagement with TCCs, role in holding the pen and equal access to Council documents as advanced by Algeria through its inscription in Note 507 and establish subsidiary bodies in accordance with Charter. Improvements in working methods are understood not as substitute for reform in categories of membership. Additionally, it also envisaged key additions as follows; G) Treating Africa as a special case and as priority as stipulated in the Pact for the Future adopted during the Summit of the Future at the UNGA in September 2024, and H) On text based negotiations - Africa to engage in text based negotiation provided there is a prior consensus between member states on the five clusters & an agreed framework that addresses the historical injustice. Overall, the presentation of the model attracted positive reception, viewed by many as contributing towards the development of a consolidated model that the Pact for the Future called for. It has also elicited substantive engagement from various groupings and member states with many highlighting convergence and asking specific questions on some of the elements of the Africa model. Yet, the conspicuous absence of response from some permanent members was notable. As further analysis (to follow this news) of the model would reveal, while some of the elements of the Model provide space for further engagement on the questions raised by some groups, other elements constitute non-negotiables. Backgrounder: Earlier Amani Africa research report is avilable here x.com/i/status/17990…

Folks be thinking they can do anyhow and claiming “my voice is just strong.” I’m Nigerian and I have a strong voice too. Don’t let do decibel for decibel, dear!

@SergiyKyslytsya @pass_blue Tx for your comment from Kyiv

No, it’s not a trend @pass_blue it’s a sustainable enduring megatrend that is mainstreamed in UN culture and business. The state of the UN is not a result of a sequence of passing fads. It’s the result of informed choices by seasoned bureaucrats inside the UN and key stakeholders in a handful of capitals. Primarily choices of the four permanent members, and an invader in a permanent seat. The SG is effectively elected by them; through an act of a successful negotiation by the winner of this race of equilibrium that allows the elected SG to walk without slipping. Like according to Newton's first law of motion, where an object remains in this state unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. Avoiding “unbalanced forces” seems to be a modus operandi. Is it what can save the UN? Is it what the world, beyond the permanent members, and one who invaded a permanent seat, expects from the UN? Does the world outside the UNHQ bubble and UN desk-officers in the capitals expect anything from the UN at this point at all?

Follow @pass_blue - doing a good job of posting snippets - live tweeting - from all the SG candidates public forums

President of the U.N. General Assembly Annalena Baerbock describes the thorny challenges the Iran War poses for the United Nations

@RGrynspan is the first candidate that seems to speak from a place of passion about what she will do is selected as UN SG. Whilst not naming parties responsible for some of the biggest crime and crises of our time (yet), it is still refreshing! un.org/en/sg-selectio…

Great pleasure to collaborate with @africa_amani on this policy paper, following my participation in the High-Level pre-#AUSummit Policy Dialogue on “The role of the A3+: Insights from Sierra Leone’s UN Security Council Membership.” A timely brief reflecting on Sierra Leone’s (2024-2025) tenure on the @UN Security Council, and the evolving role of the A3+ in shaping more coherent, principled, and strategic African engagement in global peace and security. #A3Plus #UNSC #Africa #Multilateralism @SierraLeoneUN

Candidates vying to be the new Secretary-General should come to next week’s General Assembly debates with ideas for bolstering the UN’s credibility on international peace and security. I lay out some markers in this new @CrisisGroup commentary. crisisgroup.org/cmt/global/pri…

@Jollz Quite fascinating but not “only in America”. There are lots of abandoned houses (I dare say mansions) in Abuja. The major difference here; government knows who own those homes and willing to tax them a little more.

I know it’s not the point oh but only in America can enough regular people own multimillion-dollar second homes, left empty for most of the year, that a city tax on those properties alone could generate upwards of $500 million.

I’ll be in conversation with the U.N. Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed on the sidelines of the IMF/World Bank Spring meetings in Washington D.C. LIVE on #SABCnews’ Late Edition From around 21h20 CAT tonight We’ll talk War in Iran, Debt and the SDGs, Development Finance, Artificial Intelligence and the likely stresses to a fragile labour market…