NIGERIA AND THE MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS - DEVELOPMENT AGENDA

The Millennium Development Goals adopted by United Nations member states in 2000 were meant to improve a variety of situations affecting the well-being of their inhabitants by 2015: poverty, hunger, education, disease, gender equality and environmental sustainability. In this book, Chukwuebuka Dominic Onyechi evaluates the performance of Nigeria with respect to achieving these goals.He describes the challenges faced by the country and evaluates its successes and failures goal by goal to establish what worked, what didn't, and why.