Success and Failure of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Nigeria

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight goals developed by the world community to uplift people from social and environmental problems. The MDGs aimed to halve the rate of poverty and hunger, reduce illiteracy, diseases, and environmental degradation and enhance global partnership among nations by the year 2015. The purpose of this study was to examine the success and failure of MDGs in Nigeria. The study adopted a qualitative method and the main source of data is secondary. Analytical results revealed that out of the eight goals of the MDGs, Nigeria could only achieve one which is primary school enrolment. All other goals were not achieved. The study recommended that for Nigeria to achieve sustainable development goals, all the perceived factors that were responsible for the failure of the MDGs must be tackled.