President Muhammadu Buhari, his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, and several other prominent Nigerians have been named among “100 most influential Africans of 2015”.
The list and profiles of the continent’s top game changers published by the pan-African news magazine, “New African”, covers top players in eight different professional fields.
They include 22 in politics; 21 each in arts & culture and business as well as 11 in civil society. Nine others are in technology; seven in media; five in sports and four in public office.
Both leaders made the list for the significant roles they played during the last Nigeria’s 2015 elections which saw the first successful transfer of power from a ruling government to an opposition party in Nigeria’s political history.
Mr. Buhari was acknowledged for his magnanimity in victory, while Mr. Jonathan was commended for his humility in defeat, which ensured that Nigeria avoided a post-election crisis.
Other Nigerians also recognized include the president of the African Development Bank, AfDB, Akinwumi Adesina; current Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed, who was the Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning at the United Nations, where she helped in shaping the new 2030 agenda for sustainable development.
The magazine said during her tenure, Ms. Mohammed’s vision and voice helped bring people together and enlisted new partners to the cause in three years of complex negotiations that resulted in the most inclusive consultation process in the history of the United Nations towards a global consensus on the Sustainable Development Goals.
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