Nigeria’s Jimoh Ibrahim Elected Chair of UN General Assembly’s Fifth Committee

• Pledges reform and fiscal discipline

•Ambassador demands arms embargo on terrorist groups

•Urges global action as illicit weapons fuel terror, conflict

Michael Olugbode and Sunday Aborisade in Abuja

Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Jimoh Ibrahim, has been elected Chairman of the Fifth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, placing the country at the helm of one of the UN’s most influential bodies responsible for administrative and budgetary affairs.