Category: Leadership & Diplomacy

The United Nations (UN) General Assembly (GA) has adopted, by consensus, the Nigeria-sponsored resolution on: “Promotion of international cooperation to combat illicit financial flows in order to foster sustainable development”.

President Alassane Ouattara and Her Excellency, President Johnson-Sirleaf, confer National Honors of Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia on Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for her works on development supporting the two countries and Africa

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been honoured with the 2016 Global Fairness Award given to leaders who have contributed to Sustainable Development through serving others, especially the grassroots with policies, programs and action

The Queen’s Young Leaders Award recognises and celebrates exceptional people aged 18-29 from across the Commonwealth, who are taking the lead in their communities and using their skills to transform lives.

Winners of The Queen’s Young Leaders Award 2017

1. Bukola Bolarinwa – Bukola has encouraged thousands of new people to come forward and give blood, by raising awareness of the life-saving importance of blood donation.
2. Nasir Yammama – Nasir is harnessing the power of simple, low-cost technologies to help local farmers produce more crops and increase their sales.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the appointment of Olufemi Elias as Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, with effect from 1 January 2017

Nigeria’s Alternate Permanent Representative to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), Dikko Tahir Bala emerges the Chairman of International Mobile Satellite (IMSO)