Over 70 percent of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) achieved- FG

FG has attained over 70% of certain requirements outlined by United Nations towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015. This is revealed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs Dr Precious Gbenol, through the pre-implementation workshop of the 2014 Conditional Grants Scheme (CGS) to Local Governments. She noted the living conditions of all Nigerians have improved through the intervention under MDG programmes.

(NBS), Dr Gbenol said the amount of people with access to clean drinking tap water has improved from 57 per cent to 60.7 per cent and individuals with good sanitary facilities has experienced slight improvement from 31 per cent to 33 per cent.

She said,

“Nigeria has achieved more than 70 per cent of the MDGs requirement. The last statistics NBS gave us was 57 per cent. This current one that the NBS is going to publish is 60.7 per cent. There is therefore a significant improvement in the number of those who have access to clean drinking water. The number of those who use good sanitation facilities has also seen slight remarkable improvement from 31 per cent to 33 per cent by NBS statistics. Nigeria has satisfied MDG 8 whose indicators say that the number of people who have access to internet facilities within the country has increased tremendously from 35 per cent to the current 55 per cent.”

Gbenol further assured Nigerians President Jonathan is resolute at ensuring the sustainable development will soon be center stage of the post-2015 development agenda.