trend. 4. Reduce Child Mortality Unacceptable rates of child mortality prevail and are preventable. Urgent actions are required by all tiers of government to put Nigeria back on track. 5. Improve Maternal Health Maternal mortality is now a national emergency; current rates are unacceptable and must be reversed, so says Mr. President. 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria Scaled up efforts are required to sustain gains made to achieve the targets. and other Diseases 7. Ensure Environmental On-going concerted efforts to be enhanced towards attaining the Sustainability environmental sustainability target by 2015. 8. Develop a Global Global Partnerships showed marked improvement with genuine efforts to Partnership for assist Nigeria in its quest for Debt Relief. There is need for substantial and Development urgent scaling up of development assistance to finance the MDGs. Source: Federal Government of Nigeria, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs, Information Kit, 2009). Federal Ministry of National Planning, Abuja. The Report of 2013 indicated hereunder, is the 6th in the series of such reports Committee’s since year 2004: Table 7: Summary of MDGs Report Card, 2013 Nigeria’s S/N GOALS VERDICT 1. Eradicate Extreme Poverty Progress here has been low with regards to the target of halving the USD 1 and Hunger a day poverty prevalence. With poverty at 62.60%, it is not likely that the 2015 target of 21.40% will be met. 2. Achieve Universal Primary Nigeria is on track to meet the 2015 targets. The country has achieved at Education least 80.0% in all the three indicators-net enrolment rate, gross enrolment rate and primary six completion rate. Both the federal and state governments are currently intensifying collaborative efforts to promote access to basic education through targeted local interventions for enhancing primary school enrolment and retention. 3. Promote Gender Equality The trends and status (ratio of girls to boys in primary enrolment 90.0%) –
trend. 4. Reduce Child Mortality Unacceptable rates of child mortality prevail and are preventable. Urgent actions are required by all tiers of government to put Nigeria back on track. 5. Improve Maternal Health Maternal mortality is now a national emergency; current rates are unacceptable and must be reversed, so says Mr. President. 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other Diseases Scaled up efforts are required to sustain gains made to achieve the targets. 7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability On-going concerted efforts to be enhanced towards attaining the environmental sustainability target by 2015. 8. Develop a Global Partnership for Development Global Partnerships showed marked improvement with genuine efforts to assist Nigeria in its quest for Debt Relief. There is need for substantial and urgent scaling up of development assistance to finance the MDGs. Source: Federal Government of Nigeria, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs, Information Kit, 2009). Federal Ministry of National Planning, Abuja. The Committee’s Report of 2013 indicated hereunder, is the 6th in the series of such reports since year 2004: Table 7: Summary of Nigeria’s MDGs Report Card, 2013 S/N GOALS VERDICT 1. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger Progress here has been low with regards to the target of halving the USD 1 a day poverty prevalence. With poverty at 62.60%, it is not likely that the 2015 target of 21.40% will be met. 2. Achieve Universal Primary Education Nigeria is on track to meet the 2015 targets. The country has achieved at least 80.0% in all the three indicators-net enrolment rate, gross enrolment rate and primary six completion rate. Both the federal and state governments are currently intensifying collaborative efforts to promote access to basic education through targeted local interventions for enhancing primary school enrolment and retention. 3. Promote Gender Equality The trends and status (ratio of girls to boys in primary enrolment – 90.0%)