United Nations (UN) Thursday appointed the embattled Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, as a member of the new class of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Advocates, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) is reporting.
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, made the announcement through his spokesman, Farhan Haq, at a news conference in New York.
The SDG Advocates are
17 influential public figures committed to “raising awareness, inspiring greater ambition, and pushing for faster action on the SDGs.”
Haq 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.
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.
Haq said the six new members were taking over from the previous six who had been made SDG Advocate Alumni.
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, had Wednesday (May 8) assented to a bill approving the creation of four additional emirates in the state, thereby reducing the influence of the Emir of Kano.
The governor’s assent took place shortly after the passage of the law by the state House of Assembly, removing 36 local government areas from the Kano Emirate to create the four new emirates.
● NAN
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