The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Vice President and Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum appointed Shamma Al Mazrui as the country’s youth minister in February, 2016.
The announcement officially made 22-year-old Mazrui the world’s youngest cabinet minister with portfolio.
Her appointment came two years after graduating from the New York University (NYU), Abu Dhabi with a degree in Economics, and just after she’d earned her Master’s from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
Mazrui was selected to lead the country’s younger generation and forge links between them and the country’s public entities
Well, history has it that in our Nigeria, about 50 years ago, the late author and environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa Sr. became a commissioner in the old Rivers State at the age of 24.