Nigeria re-elected to ITU council membership

Nigeria has been reelected into the council of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

The election was the highpoint of the plenipotentiary conference currently holding in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The 20th Plenipotentiary Conference of the Council, also reelected ITU Secretary-General, Houlin Zhao, for another term of four years, a statement said yesterday.

Nigeria and the countries elected to the council will begin another four-year term from January 2019.

The 153-year old ITU, is an agency of the United Nations (UN), set up to coordinate telecommunication operations services the world. Originally founded in 1865, as the International Telegraph Union, the ITU is the oldest existing international organisation and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Nigeria became member of ITU November 4, 1961.

The ITU is governed by the plenipotentiary conference, which is the supreme organ of the union, which elects its senior officials, the 48 members of its council and its 12 members of the Radio Regulations Board.

Meanwhile, Zhao, an ICT engineer who has served in a variety of senior management positions at ITU, will begin his second, and last four-year term on January 1, 2019. and throughout a on