By Deji Elumoye
The First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has commended her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari, for appointing one of her aides, Dr Hajo Sani, as Nigeria’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to UNESCO.
Sani, until her latest elevation, was Senior Special Assistant to the President on Women Affairs and Administration in the office of the First Lady.
Reacting to her aide’s appointment, the First Lady, in a statement Friday by her Media Assistant, Aliyu Abdullahi, while congratulating Sani, said she received with joy the news of her appointment as Nigeria’s envoy and Permanent Representative of Nigeria to UNESCO.
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Last Thursday saw the gathering of certain personalities for the presentation of
Aisha Buhari: Being Different, a book about First Lady Aisha Buhari. The biography or more appropriately, hagiography was written by Senior Special Adviser to the President on Women Affairs and Administration, Hajo Sani. Comprising a mere 46 pages broken into ten chapters, it barely says much. When you consider the caliber of people gathered at the occasion and the amount of money they reportedly raked a whopping N150m over that pamphlet, you wonder why we play too much in Nigeria.
First, I think there should be a law that explicitly bans public officials including their consorts and aides from “launching” books or similar personal projects while in office. From the days of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who used his office to finagle out a presidential library, the presidency has been pimped for personal gains. Their exploitation of power is underst
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The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Administration and Women Affairs (Office of the First Lady), Dr Hajo Sani, has been appointed as an Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Nigeria to United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO.
The announcement was contained in a statement titled, ‘Appointments In The Education Sector’ and issued by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Education, Ben Bem Goong, on Wednesday.
Sani’s new appointment comes about a week after a biography she wrote for the wife of the President titled, ‘Aisha Buhari: Being different,’ was presented to the public at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja.
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Published 14 April 2021
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has appointed his Senior Special Assistant on Administration and Women Affairs (Office of the First Lady), Dr Hajo Sani, as Ambassador and Permanent delegate of Nigeria to United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
Director, Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Education, Ben Bem Goong, announced the appointment in a statement on Wednesday titled, ‘Appointments In The Education Sector’.
Sani’s new appointment comes about a week after a biography she wrote for the wife of the President titled, ‘Aisha Buhari: Being different,’ was presented to the public at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja.