The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Chief (Mrs) Adejoke Orelope – Adefulire, has declared that Nigeria needs transformative, catalytic policies and programmes to achieve the SDGs by 2030.
Chief Mrs Orelope-Adefulire said this Monday while speaking at the opening of a 2-day maiden conference of the Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows Alumni Association Nigeria (COSFAN) held at the Trenchard Hall of the University of Ibadan.
Represented by her Special Assistant, Rose Keffas, Orelope-Adefulire maintained that there was the need to accelerate the attainment of the SDGs, adding that “the world is off track and we need to be on track with the impact of the covid, climate change and crisis, we need to do more to accelerate the attainment of SGDs in Nigeria.”
“This event is timely because the world is off track of SDGs, we need to come together, various stakeholders and accelerate the attainment of the SDGs, you can see the sub theme and the theme as it resonate and align with the development goals of Nigeria,” she added.
Continuing, she said, “You can see that the five theme is aligned with the sixth transition on what we need to do as a nation, to accelerate the attainment of the SDGs, the world is off track and we need to be on track with the impact of the Covid, climate change and crisis, we need to do more to accelerate the attainment of SGDs in Nigeria. We need transformative, catalytic policies and programmes to make sure we achieve the SDGs by 2030.”
The Senior Special Assistant lauded the organisers of the conference for coming up with a round table gathering that aimed at solving issues hindering good governance in the country.
Convener of the conference, who also doubles as the president of COSFAN, Dr. Ekundayo Samuel, stressed that “we need governance, not just governance but a good governance” in the country and that “the gathering is very critical at a time like this in order to proffer solutions to many issues battling the country.”
“Today, we are having our maiden international conference in Ibadan, we actually come into the limelight to support the Nigeria government, because we face with lots of challenges and besides we are a body that is comprises of all the professionals, like scientists, and the scholars across country that have been to the UK since 1960 till date, and we have eminent people that have gone through this scheme.”