The #UN Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs) and My Reservation(s)

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Have you heard of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a global goal, taking over from MDGs on the 1st of Jan. 2016... As we might argue, MDGs was actually for the broke/poor countries like Nigeria, India, Malaysia, etc. Nigeria practically failed in achieving the goals except achieving a bit of the goal, which states 'combating HIV/AIDs and other diseases' (we combated #Ebola) and tried to priorities
education under the Goodluck Jonathan administration.

Now, the UN has introduced SDGs, which is more for the big winged(rich) countries...they partially considered the broke/poor country like Nigeria this time. Why? Because they see many countries getting it right; countries like India, Malaysia, Ghana, Kenya, Brazil, et al. Development doesn't wait for any country to catch up o, its like a moving light, you really can't catch it. That is why West, looks like they were created billion years before Africa, Asia, etc. Nigeria and other developing countries across Africa and Asia have another opportunity to redeem their lost glory by attempting to achieve these goals.

But, I think the United Nations (#UN) needs to include '#EndTerrorism in all its entirety', to her Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). I wonder how they omitted that... It should even be among the top five sef.

Or should we say some of the big wig countries in the UN is sponsoring Terrorism somehow/someway?

On 2nd of Aug 2015, 193 countries arrived at a consensus on the following seventeen proposed goals, which they termed The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Check out the SDGs after the cut:


1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere

2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels