Nigeria has called for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons, rejecting the reliance on atomic weapons as a means of achieving global security.

Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Jimoh Ibrahim, made the call on tuesday at a high-level UN meeting in New York to mark the International Day for the Total elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

Ibrahim said Nigeria neither possesses nuclear weapons nor considers them necessary for its national security, stressing that their total elimination remains the only absolute guarantee against their use or threat.

He noted that thousands of nuclear warheads remain in existence while nuclear-armed states continue modernisation programmes amid rising geopolitical tensions.