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Nigeria

                                              NIGERIA

Region   Western Africa
UN membership date   07-Oct-60
Population (000, 2018)  195 875a
Surface area (km2)  923 768b
Capital city   Abuja
National currency  Naira (NGN)


Weapons of Mass Destruction

International Instruments
Entry into force 
Signed
Ratified
Acceded
CTBT: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty  

08/09/2000 27/09/2001  
Convention on Nuclear Safety  03/07/2007  21/09/1994  04/04/2007  
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material  04/05/2007
 

 04/04/2007
Environmental Modification Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques        

Biological Weapons Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction
 
 03/07/1972  20/07/1973  
Chemical Weapons Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 19/06/1999  13/01/1993  20/05/1999  
Nuclear Terrorism Convention: International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism  25/10/2012
 

   25/09/2012
1925 Geneva Protocol: Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare       15/10/1968
Partial Test Ban Treaty: Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water    30/08/1963  17/02/1967  
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons  

 01/07/1968  14/10/1968  
Sea-bed Treaty: Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floorand in the Subsoil Thereof        
Treaty relating to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare  

     
         
Regional Instruments
Entry into force
Signed
Ratified
Acceded
         
 Treaty of Pelindaba: African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty    11/04/1996 18/06/2001  

         

 

Conventional weapons

International Instruments
Entry into force 
Signed
Ratified
Acceded
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)  24/12/2014 12/08/2013  12/08/2013  
Convention on Cluster Munitions   12/06/2009    
CCW: Convention On Prohibitions Or Restrictions On The Use Of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed To Be Excessively Injurious Or To Have Indiscriminate Effects (With Protocols I, Ii And Iii)    26/01/1982    
CCW Protocol II: Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, BoobyTraps and Other Devices    

   
CCW Protocol V: Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects        
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 01/03/2002      27/09/2001
Firearms Protocol: Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition    
13/11/2001

 03/03/2006  
Treaty relating to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare    

   
         
Regional Instruments
Entry into force
 
 Signed
 
Ratified 
 
 Acceded
ECOWAS Convention: ECOWAS Convention on the Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons, Their Munitions and Other Related Materials  05/08/2009 14/06/2006 27/10/2008  

 

Transparency InstrumentsMore Details
   
United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (UNPoA) http://www.poa-iss.org/Poa13/CountryProfiles/CountryProfileInfo.aspx?CoI=146&pos=1000
International Tracing Instrument: International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons http://www.poa-iss.org/InternationalTracing/InternationalTraicingInfo.aspx?CoI=146&pos=1000
UN Register of Conventional Arms http://www.un-register.org/HeavyWeapons/Index.aspx
Military Expenditures Database http://www.un-arm.org/MilEx/CountryProfile.aspx?CountryId=146
UNSCR 1540- National Reports http://www.un.org/en/sc/1540/national-implementation/national-reports.shtml
UNSCR 1540- National Implementation Action Plans  
   
   

 
Statements First Committee UN General Assembly (Disarmament and International Security)

 Session  Statements
 68e Session(2013)

https://papersmart.unmeetings.org/media2/703396/nigeria.pdf

https://papersmart.unmeetings.org/media2/703874/nigeria.pdf

https://papersmart.unmeetings.org/media2/703019/nigeria.pdf

https://papersmart.unmeetings.org/media2/702850/nigeria.pdf

https://papersmart.unmeetings.org/media2/432916/nigeria.pdf

https://papersmart.unmeetings.org/media2/271194/nigeria.pdf
 69e Session (2014)

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/4652138/nigeria.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/4653674/nigeria-on-behalf-of-african-group-en.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/4654269/nigeria.pdf
 70eSession(2015)  

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7652124/nigeria-african-group.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7652453/nigeria.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7653543/nigeria-22nd.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7653891/nigeria-26th-afg.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7654039/nigeria-27th.pdf
 71e Session(2016)

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7661504/nigeria.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7662449/nigeria.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7662530/nigeria.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7662845/nigeria.pdf

 72e Session(2017)  

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/16152215/statement-by-nigeria-on-behalf-of-the-african-group-.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/16152614/nigeria.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/16154170/nigeria.pdf
 73e Session(2018)  http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/19409433/nigera.pdf