UN appoints Emir Sanusi as one of its global SDG advocates, the only Nigerian on the list

Barely 24 hours after the state emirate was divided to reduce his power, Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has been appointed by the United Nations as a member of the new class of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) advocates.

UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, made the announcement on Thursday 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.”

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Sanusi is the only Nigerian on the 17-man secretary-general’s list of SDGs Advocates co-chaired by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana and Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway.

Other new members of the groeup 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.

According to Haq, the six new members will 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,’’ the spokesman said.

Few days earlier, Emir Sanusi was appointed alongside former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) into the global board of the MTN group.

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