Nigeria is to focus on addressing the threats posed by Nuclear Weapons and preventing terrorists from accessing Weapons of Mass Destruction, WMD, as it assumes the rotational Chairmanship of the AU Peace and Security Council, AU-PSC, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the African Union, Bankole Adeoye, made this known in an interview with newsmen in Abuja.

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Mr Adeoye, took over the position on April 1, from Zackariaou Maiga, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Niger, who held the Chairmanship for the month of March, 2018.

Nigeria’s tenure will end on May 1.

He said other focus area include their control regimes, including the urgent need for the promotion of peaceful uses of Nuclear Energy.

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“Importantly, the AU-PSC will consider the nexus between Corruption and Conflict Resolution and the Imperative of promoting good economic policies in the context of Nigeria’s Championing of the 2018 AU annual theme on anti-corruption under the leadership President Muhammadu Buhari.