SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN NIGERIA: A REVIEW OF IMPLEMENTATION EFFORTS AND CHALLENGES

The Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by the United Nations member states in 2015 to achieve equity and prosperity by 2030. There are solutions Networks which monitors the activities of countries and regions in the work of implementing the SDGs and also records their information. It is a successor and improvement on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which ran from 2000 to 2015. Gender equality and women’s empowerment is integral to each of the 17 goals. The UN 2020 Progress Report on SDGs 2030 across the world were reviewed and found out that many nations will not meet the 2030 target including Nigeria. Though progress had been made five years since the adoption of the SDGs worldwide. The Nigerian voluntary national review 2020 was developed while facing with challenges from Covid-19 pandemic, massive flooding across the nation, insecurity and corruption. Our modest attempt to answer the research questions derived from the four ranking SDGs in Nigeria became framework of appraisal. The research concluded that progress has been made but not at sufficient speed to realize the SDGs by the 2030 target. It was recommended that everything we do during and after this Covid-19 pandemic must be with strong focus on building more equal, inclusive and sustainable economies