 President Burla Tinnable on Sunday arrived in New York for the high level meetings of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The UN correspondent of reporters that Tinnable arrived at the Jay Earth Kennedy International Airport in New York at about 6.45pm local time. The president is leading an interim delegation to attend the scheduled event of the General Assembly from September 18th to 26th, in what is his first outing in his capacity as the president of Nigeria. The president was received by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Yusuf Tuga, the permanent representative of Nigeria to the UN, Ambassador Tijani, Mohamed Bandei and Major General Dangana Alou, Nigeria's defense attache Washington D.C. Tinnable in his inaugural statement to the Assembly will be addressing world leaders in the evening of Tuesday at about 6pm local time. The Nigerian leader will be the fifth African leader to speak on day one of the gathering and 14th speaker out of 20 leaders slated to speak on Tuesday.