The Lagos State ministry of Economic Planing and Budget is collaborating with the United Kingdom department for international development and the United Nations Information Center (UNIC) to achieve the vision of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Lagos before 2030.
Against this backdrop, a sensitization seminar has been organised for local government officials in the three senatorial district in the State.
The seminar is aimed at orientating local government officials on how to cascade the vision of sustainable development goals in their various grassroots catchment.
Speaking at the seminar which held at the United nations information center for local official at the Lagos central senatorial district, the director of the ministry of economic planning and budget development Mr. Bankole Adetola, stated that the Lagos State government have decided to “take the bull by the Horn”, through mobilization of all key stakeholders.
He noted that the mobilization is aimed at curbing the shortfalls of the millennium development goals which ended in 2015.
“We want to avoid the shortfalls of MDGs which is basically lack of awareness. therefore we have constituted a champions group which have gone through training, and it is now their duty to create massive awareness in their constituencies.
 The Director, UNIC Lagos, Ronald  Kayanja, Described  sustainable development goals as an offshoot of the millennium development goals. According to him, the latter is aimed at consolidating on the lapses of the former, which could not achieve its objective of eradicating poverty in the world.
Kayanja commended Lagos State government for the partnership and implementation strategy which involves generating data through indicators that review what each unit is doing, and also the sensitization seminar for local government officials.
MDGs, have seventeen goals, one hundred and sixty-nine target and two hundred and three indicators.
By Umoru Covenant


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