Meet Nigeria's First Woman Ambassador to the United Nations

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                                                                  Amb. Ruda Golem

Amb. Ruda Golem Muhammed is Nigeria's First Woman Ambassador to the United Nations. A woman from Amper, Kanke LGA of Plateau State, Nigeria, Ruda was born on April 26th, 1924. She began her diplomatic service with her posting in 1959 as a Student Welfare Officer to the office of the Agent General of Northern Nigeria and later in the Nigeria High Commission in London. During her sojourn in London, Ruda continued to further her training in Public Administration at Lincoln's Inn of Law, then at the Institute of Public Administration, later to the London School of Economics. She returned to Nigeria in 1970 and assumed the post of Chief Passport Officer, Lagos.   

Breakthrough 

In 1972, she was posted as Counsellor to the Office of the Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations in New York- she became Nigeria's first woman Ambassador to the United Nations and was accredited to the Nigerian High Commission to Boswana, Lesotho and Zimbabwe.