All her life Amina Jane Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations has been a leading voice in the fight against underdevelopment in Nigeria and Africa by extension. With her numerous campaigns against illiteracy, hunger, underdevelopment and other vices affecting the flourishing of Africa and Nigeria, she acted in several capacities to make sure her longtime dream and aspirations for Africa actualize.
The Mother of Six is not a greenhorn when it comes to world politics after she has acted in various capacities and performed excellently well bagging several award recognition and also honorary degrees. As Task Force on Gender and Education for the United Nations Millennium Project, Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) later as the Special Adviser to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Post-2015 development planning, she never failed to display her highly cerebral prowess and coordination dexterity.
With her wealth of experience in the United Nations, she was appointed in 2015 as the minister for environment. She resigned her appointment in January 2017 when United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed her as Deputy Secretary-General. Ever since that moment, she has witnessed tremendous success, therefore, intensifying efforts to make sure the world recovers from the shambles of Covid-19.
At the just-concluded United Nations General Assembly in New York, she spoke on salient issues affecting the world proffering solutions and also charged world leaders to commit funds to end hunger. She also melts hearts with her speech at the global citizen live in New York where she also addressed the issues of hunger and how the world economy can be revived and famine can be tackled in some developed and underdeveloped countries across the world. She also disclosed plans of the United Nations to take steps that will further put an end to global hunger and famine caused by conflict, Covid and climate change by boosting agricultural production.
