For Nigeria to attain her Sustainable Development Goals, SDG, leaders in both private and public sectors must collaborate in the implementation of the set goals.
This comes as the Federal Government, FG, estimates the funding requirements for the goals to be attained at about $10 billion annually.edition of the Nigeria Economic Summit, NES#29, in a panel session, titled, ‘Half Point to 2030: Rethinking the Strategy Towards Achieving the SDGs’.Nigeria SDG implementation midpoint also advocated for strict adherence to fiscal responsibility and application of innovative ideas to achieve success.
The Senior Special Adviser to the President on SDGs, Mrs. Adegoke Orelope-Adefulire, disclosed that the biggest challenge to the goals attainment is how to raise the $10billion funding required to finance the SDGs annually because, according to her, the budget of both Federal and sub-national governments put together can’t match the half of the said fund needed to implement SDGs in Nigeria.
She stated: ‘‘To finance SDGs, we need $10bn annually but what we have including at the sub nationals is not up to half.“What we need to do is to expand the tax net to bring in those outside the network. She urged captains of industries to mobilise resources and align with government to attain the SDGs, assuring that before the end of this year, they will start implementation.
“Now we are having relative peace, I am certain we I’ll make progress, working with the private sector and donor agencies.”
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