EMIR OF KANO SANUSI LAMIDO GETS UN APPOINTMENT
The United Nations (UN) has announced the appointment of His Royal Highness Muhammadu Sanusi Lamido II, Emir of Kano, as one of its new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Advocates for 2019-2020. Sanusi is the only Nigerian on the 17-man secretary-general’s list of SDGs Advocates who are 17 influential public figures committed to “raising awareness, inspiring greater ambition, and pushing for faster action on the SDGs.”
The other five new members are Hindou Ibrahim of Chad, Dia Mirza of India, Edward Ndopu of South Africa, Nadia Murad of Iraq and Marta Vieira da Silva of Brazil.
Antonio Guterres, UN secretary-general, made the announcement through Farhan Haq, his spokesman, at a news conference in New York on Thursday. The appointment is sequel to the UN member states’ agreement to accomplish the SDGs by 2030 and will be co-chaired by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana and Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway.
Sanusi’s latest appointment comes few days after Nigeria’s telecoms giant, MTN appointed the former Central Bank governor as a Non-Executive Director effective July 1, 2019. The appointment of the Emir is part of a board room shake-up at Africa’s biggest wireless carrier, which will also see the on-boarding of South Africa’s former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas as a new group chairman.
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