UN deputy secretary-general Amina Mohammed to visit Nigeria next weeks for talks with Buhari

UNITED Nations deputy secretary-general and former environment minister Amina Mohammed is to visit Nigeria next week on March 23 for a series of meetings with President Muhammadu Buhari and other top government functionaries.

In 2015, Ms Mohamed was appointed Nigeria's environment minister but last year resigned after being appointed UN deputy secretary in New York. This will be her first official visit to Nigeria since taking up her appointment and is part of a wider trip that involves visits to Switzerland, Liberia, Czech Republic and Mauritania.

She will leave New York over the weekend for Geneva to participate in the meeting of the International Labour Organisation Governing Board and the World Summit for Information Society Forum. At that event, Ms Mohammed would also hold consultations with UN entities on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

On Wednesday, she would proceed to Monrovia, to participate in an event to celebrate the successful completion of the UN Mission in Liberia’s mandate. She would also participate in the National Reconciliation Conference and the high-level meeting on the national development agenda for 2018 to 2024.

While in Liberia, the deputy secretary-general would also meet senior government officials, development partners and the UN Country Team. On March 25, she would travel to Prague to attend an Economic and Social Council Preparatory Meeting titled Towards sustainable, resilient and inclusive societies through participation of all.

She would also meet with Czech authorities and discuss a range of matters concerning the implementation of the SDGs. On March 27, Ms Mohammed would proceed to Nouakchott, to attend the Strategic Consultative Meeting on the Sahel and then return to New York on March 29, 2018.