Speaking to newsman on her return from Nnewi, where she led the delegation that presented COVID-19 intervention support to the Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital, comprising 2,500 face masks, 10,000 hand gloves, 250 bottles of hand sanitiser (500mls), 24,000 tablets of paracetamol and a cheque of N2.5 million, Okunna said that on coming to office, Obi keyed into the Millennium Development Goals, which he adopted as the Vision of the state, and made education, health and poverty reduction the centre of that vision
Browsing: Millennium Development Goals
Obi made the call at the World Conference Centre, Bonn, Germany during the Global Festival of Action for Sustainable Development Goals that ended on Friday
Alhaji Alfa Belel, who is the Chairman of the Investigative Panel, while submitting the reports in his office, explained that the panel has gone into rigorous investigation from award of 1,150 contracts awarded from 2010 to date
In an interview with State House correspondents in Abuja, Tonye Cole, the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Sahara Group, said the #NigeriaStartsWithMe initiative would rally young people to own major stakes in the transformation of Nigeria by coming up with practical ideas that key into the SDGs
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Lanre Tejuosho, who made this known while briefing journalists, decried the expenditure of over $1 billion (about N305.250 billion) annually for medical treatment abroad
Orelope-Adefulire made the remark while presenting a lead paper at the ongoing 15th meetings of the Joint Planning Board and National Council on Development Planning in Kano on Tuesday
He said the monitoring of the Millennium Development Goals suffered due to lack of funding required getting the data, adding that the fund was not available until six years after the commencement of the MDGs
The commendation was made during the side event on the presentation of the Common African Position on Post-2015 Development Agenda, which also had in attendance the President of Liberia and Chair of the High Level Committee on the Post 2015 Development Agenda, Ellen Sieleaf Johnson and other African leaders
A statement signed by the Media Consultant to the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs, Desmond Utomwen, stated that the report chronicled the gains recorded in the implementation of the 15-year development framework as well as challenges and gaps requiring attentions in the Sustainable Development Goals, which will be adopted in September by world leaders as the replacement for the MDGs
With some 70 million people without access to safe water and over 110 million people without access to improved sanitation, Nigeria is currently not on-track with regard to its attainment of Water and Sanitation targets
The State Focal Person, Alhaji Mohammed Ibrahim, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Bauchi on Saturday