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Amina J. Mohammed As Profiled By The United Nations

Other than this woman being the UN version of Ngozi Okonjo who worked in the World bank her history is as vague as Pres. Buhari plans for Nigeria. Nevertheless she is a great and powerful woman. Read her profile below (pls who knows her place of birth). Amina J. Mohammed was appointed Special Adviser on “Post-2015 Development Planning” to the United Nation’s Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 7 June 2012. She brought in more than 30 years of experience as a development practitioner in the public and private sectors, as well as civil society. (more…)

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Ken Saro-Wiwa’s 74th Posthumous Birthday Is Today!

Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and which has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping. (more…)