Nigeria’s former Environment Minister, Amina Mohammed, has been appointted to serve as Deputy Secretary-General for a second term in the United Nations.
She was appoitted by the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, shortly after the United Nations General Assembly re-appointed him for a second term.
Guterres’s second term starts on January 1, 2022, and will run for a period of five years. He succeeded Ban Ki-moon in January 2017 as the ninth secretary-general.
Guterres told journalists after taking the oath of office for a second term, that he had m extended an offer to Mohammed to continue in office.
“After being elected, I have the pleasure to invite the deputy secretary-general to remain in my second mandate and I hope she will accept,” Guterres said.
Mohammed had also served as the special adviser to Ban Ki-moon on post-2015 development planning, which focused on the 2030 agenda for sustainable development goals.
Mohammed who is serving as the fifth Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, was Nigeria’s Environment Minister from 2015 to 2016.
