The United Nations (UN) on Thursday, May 9, appointed the emir of Kano, Malam Muhammad Sanusi II, as a member of the new class of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) advocates.
We understands that the UN secretary-general, Antonio
Guterres made the announcement through his spokesperson, Farhan Haq, at a news
conference in New York. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the SDG
advocates are 17 influential public figures committed to “raising awareness,
inspiring greater ambition, and pushing for faster action on the SDGs
The report said Sanusi is one of the six new members of the
group, which is co-chaired by President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana and the prime
minister of Norway, Erna Solberg. The other five new members, according to the
report, 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. Haq said the
six new members would take over from the previous six who had been made SDG
advocate alumni. "The secretary-general looks forward to working with the
group over the coming years to advance the SDGs,” he said. Legit.ng earlier
reported that Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was recently appointed as a member of the
board of directors for MTN, a telecommunications giant. The emir who was a
former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria was welcomed to his new job by other
new directors to the board, the outgoing group chairman, Phuthuma Nhleko.
However, hours after Governor Abdullahi Ganduje promised to
sign the bill seeking to split Kano emirate into five, the state’s lawmakers
passed it instructing that it should be transmitted to the head of the
executive arm for assent.
With the passing of the local government and chieftaincy
affairs law, the lawmakers have now decentralized the Kano emirate council
giving the status of first class to the new ones.
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