Kanu Nwankwo, a former captain of the Nigerian national team, Super Eagles has travelled out of Nigeria to attend the United Nations peace meeting.

Kanu announced that he was on his way to the meeting on his social media accounts, twitter and instagram.

“Heading to UN for peace and unity in africa through football.lets make the world a better place#one love #airport thing #positive vibe,” Kanu wrote on twitter and instagram.

“Here we are,just arrived for the meeting with UN bringing peace and unity and development through football to africa,” he added on arrival.

Heading to Newyork for UN meeting.is all about bringing peace/ unity through football in africa.instagram @kingkanu4 pic.twitter.com/TNnRf3oUnj

— Kanu Nwankwo (@papilokanu) June 14, 2016

Heading to Newyork for UN meeting.is all about bringing unity and peace through football in africa.#one love #flying thing #unity peace

A photo posted by Kanu (@kingkanu4) on Jun 14, 2016 at 7:52am PDT

Here we are,just arrived for the meeting with UN bringing peace and unity and development through football to africa. #one love#peace unity #positive #better world @papilokanu

A photo posted by Kanu (@kingkanu4) on Jun 14, 2016 at 8:25am PDT