Before Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) : why Nigeria failed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Oleribe, O.O.; Taylor-Robinson, S.D.

Pan African Medical Journal 24: 156

2016


ISSN/ISBN: 1937-8688
PMID: 27795754
DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2016.24.156.8447
Document Number: 245485
World leaders adopted the UN Millennium Declaration in 2000, which committed the nations of the world to a new global partnership, aimed at reducing extreme poverty and other time-bound targets, with a stated deadline of 2015. Fifteen years later, although significant progress has been made worldwide, Nigeria is lagging behind for a variety of reasons, including bureaucracy, poor resource management in the healthcare system, sequential healthcare worker industrial action, Boko Haram insurgency in the north of Nigeria and kidnappings in the south of Nigeria. The country needs to tackle these problems to be able to significantly advance with the new sustainable development goals (SDGs) by the 2030 target date.

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