The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said his administration will continue to support activities and programmes aimed at raising the capacity of women to fight poverty and diseases that may limit their ability towards attaining their potential.
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In an opening remarks to a special session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism for Africa, which was part of the sixth session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD 2020), Mohammed said the significance of the AU as a strategic partner of the United Nations cannot be overstated
The Executive Director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Center, Auwal Rafsanjani, has cautioned against squandering of recovered looted funds as they are to be judiciously utilised in the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals.
The Sustainable Development Goals office in Oyo State has begun a week-long official monitoring tour of contracts and projects awarded by the immediate past administration.
The Lagos State Government has reiterated its commitment to strengthening public health research and boosting the capacity of healthcare workers towards achieving the Item 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Technocrats, educationists, and others are to converge at the University of Lagos to discuss the possible unrealistic features of the Sustainable Millennium Development Goals as regards education.
The Sahara Group, an international energy and infrastructure conglomerate, and the United Nations Development Programme are joining forces to promote reliable access to affordable and sustainable energy and to mainstream the Sustainable Development Goals in the private sector with a specific focus on SDG 7 (affordable energy).
The UN chief said in his message for the New Year that “these are anxious times for many, and our world is undergoing a stress test”
Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals, says 60 per cent of 10.5 million out-of-school children in Nigeria are girls.
Umahi made the call at the grand finale of the four-day Zonal Women Summit on Friday in Abakaliki
Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Sustainable Development Goals, on Tuesday said Nigeria had remarkably achieved 48 per cent of the goals.
The United Nations Population Fund in collaboration with the Mubi, Adamawa State branch of the Nigerian Bar Association and Adamawa State University organized a one-day stakeholders seminar on how best to improve access to justice for sexual and gender-based violence survivors in humanitarian setting.
Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals, says the Federal Government is capable of surmounting the challenges facing the goals in Nigeria.
Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs, presented the buses to Abubakar Mahmoud, the President of NBA on Wednesday in Abuja.
MeCAM is a media advocacy group against child malnutrition and determines to strengthen the agro-nutrition capacity and interest of its members professionally in contribution to nation-building, for emancipation from extreme hunger, especially in children, women and society, centred on Goal 2 of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Speaking at the beginning of a three-day high-level policy dialogue on development planning in Africa that is being held in Cairo, Egypt, Elhiraika said the 2030 Agenda and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on financing for development both underscore that countries need to mobilise greater financial resources if they are to achieve the SDGs.
The NBRRI Director General, Prof. Danladi Matawal, made the known when he addressed journalists on the forthcoming 2018 NBRRI International Conference.
The Cargo Day is an initiative of Mercy Ships, a corporate responsibility organisation that works with host nations to help fill the gaps in healthcare systems, while serving the dire and immediate needs of their population
According to a press statement issued in commemoration of the 2018 Children’s Day, MeCAM Chairman, Remmy Nweke, noted that the destruction of farmlands and killings by the terrorists herdsmen have reduced the number of farmers, while some have been killed, others have fled their farmlands
While briefing the Team on the activities of the office, Orelope=Adefulire enumerated some of the milestone achievements recorded by the office so far in the implementation of the SDGs in Nigeria.