Hannatu Musawa, a Nigerian barrister and human rights activist who has labored as a solicitor in Britain, has been appointed to the newly-created function of minister of artwork, tradition and the inventive financial system in President Bola Tinubu’s new 45-member cupboard.
Musawa holds a legislation diploma from the College of Buckingham within the UK and has postgraduate levels from the colleges of Cardiff and Aberdeen. She additionally based her personal legislation agency in Nigeria, Hanney Musawa & Associates, based on her LinkedIn profile. Nigerian press reported that the brand new ministers are to be sworn in on 21 August. Musawa succeeds Layiwola Mohammed, the tradition minister since 2015.
Her authorized background might show useful to Musawa in negotiating the return of Benin bronzes from Europe and the US and plans for the development of latest museums in Nigeria. She additionally writes a weekly newspaper column that she says “is a discussion board she makes use of to talk out, with out concern or favour, on behalf of Nigerians who haven’t any voice.”
Musawa grew up within the state of Katsina as one in all 12 kids. In a prolonged tribute to her father, who died earlier this yr, she wrote of his journey from rural poverty and a job promoting kola nuts to the BBC African service, Cambridge College, the Nigerian international service and a number one function in Nigerian politics and thanked him for “instructing me about equality and the significance of accepting those that is probably not like me or as privileged as me.”
Tinubu, who took workplace in Could, additionally appointed Nigeria’s ambassador to Germany, Yusuf Tuggar, as international minister. Tuggar negotiated with the German authorities on the restitution from German museums of greater than 1,100 Benin bronzes whose possession was transferred to Nigeria final yr.
