Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has said that the Social Investment Programmes of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration will accelerate the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria.

The VP made the disclosure on Tuesday at the official launch of the ‘Review of Baseline Report and Realignment of the National Statistical System with SDGs, 2020,’ which held at the Statehouse Banquet Hall, Abuja.

Osinbajo noted that Nigeria’s objective of achieving sustainable national development is consistent with the SDGs goals, “to engender an economically sustainable, socially inclusive and environmentally resilient world.

“For Nigeria, and indeed Africa as a whole, the achievement of the SDGs is crucial to the task of ending poverty, hunger, and disease, and safeguarding our environment.”

This is according to a statement by the VP’s spokesman, Laolu Akande titled, ‘Our Social Investment Programmes will accelerate Sustainable Development Goals – Osinbajo’.
The statement quoted the United Nations’ report titled, ‘How the UN is supporting The Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria’, noting that “since the adoption of the SDGs in September 2015, Nigeria has continued to demonstrate its commitment to achieving the global goals through leadership and ownership of the implementation process.”

The VP emphasised the FG’s commitment, noting that Tuesday’s “ceremony marks the culmination of a process which began in 2016 for monitoring and evaluating the progress made in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria.”
Osinbajo further noted that with the launch, Nigeria will be able to further track its progress annually on the SDGs. He observed that the implementation of the Federal Government’s social protection programmes was central to its vision for sustainable national development and achieving the SDGs.

“This is why in May 2019, Mr. President made a public commitment to lifting approximately 100 million Nigerians out of poverty within a 10-year period. This is a national development priority, which again follows on the establishment of our social protection programmes, the largest Social Investment Programmes (SIPs) on the continent – and which by itself, is an attempt to accelerate the achievement of the SDGs across the country, “the VP affirmed.


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N-SIP is a portfolio of programmes created to support the underprivileged Nigerians across the country by reducing poverty and improving their standard of living through direct support, capacity building, and investment.

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