HYPREP began life in 2016 under the Buhari administration's environment minister Amina J Mohammed who is now UN Deputy Secretary General and stands above UNEP in the UN hierarchy...
We hear this followed an intervention from Deputy Secretary General of the UN Amina J Mohammed who was the Environment Minister under President Muhammadu Buhari who set up HYPREP for the second time in 2016...
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Of the over 500-gigabyte cache of classified defence documents in the so-called Pentagon leaks a conversation between UN Secretary-General António Guterres and his deputy Amina J Mohammed a former environment minister in Nigeria in mid-February has caused consternation in Kenya (AC Vol 61 No 20 Amina misses out again)...
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On 28 November UN Deputy Secretary General Amina J Mohammed who set up HYPREP when she was Nigeria's Environment Minister in 2016 met the incumbent minister Mohammed Abdullahi in Abuja to 'discuss continuing collaboration on … @OgoniCleanUp' among other environmental matters according to the ministry's Facebook page...
HYPREP was then re-established in December 2016 by President Muhammadu Buhari's environment minister Amina J Mohammed who is now UN Secretary-General António Guterres's deputy based at the UN headquarters in New York...
2016 – December – President Muhammadu Buhari restarts HYPREP under the Minister of Environment Amina J Mohammed...
MothballedThese scandals meant that HYPREP was mothballed until its relaunch by Buhari in 2016 under the then Minister of Environment Amina J Mohammed who is now Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations...
As Minister of the Environment Amina J Mohammed (who is now Deputy UN Secretary General) appointed Marvin Dekil as Project Coordinator making him de facto HYPREP boss in January 2017...
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Presiding over the formal closure the Deputy Secretary General of the UN Amina J Mohammed who flew in from New York praised the mission for being 'at the forefront of establishing the key foundations for peace in Liberia'...
• Environment: Amina J Mohammed a former Special Advisor on post- 2015 Development Planning to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon; this is an astute appointment just weeks ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris France...
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Meanwhile for national planning minister we have heard three names suggested: Amina J Mohammed former Special Economic Advisor to the President and currently Special Advisor on Post-2015 Development Planning to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon; the former Governor of Ekiti State Kayode Fayemi who has also been suggested as Foreign Minister; and former Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola...
The interest of the older generation of former PDP figures who worked with ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo (and indirectly that of the former President himself) is underlined in the inclusion of former PDP Chairperson (2001-2005) Audu Ogbeh and more convincingly Amina J Mohammed (Gombe)...
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