SINCE 1999, Federal Government’s allocation to the health sector has been abysmal. In the last 21 years, the Federal Government has produced a budget of N82.2 trillion out of which it allocated N4.096 trillion or 4.98 per cent to health. Stay updated on factual health stories and educating articles on... read more →
Jul
16
Jul
16
The world’s health care workers — 70% of which are women — are key to achieving universal health coverage and guaranteeing global health security. Stay updated on factual health stories and educating articles on UHC every week. Click here to view the Newsletter
Jul
09
The Build Back Better webinar series is designed to engender health system resilience by promoting agenda-setting conversations among policy makers, donor agencies, Civil Society and professional bodies. The webinar series will foster policy dialogues that will help to collate lessons learned and insights that have implications for health system resilience... read more →
Jul
03
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday at the United Nations outlined the Federal Government’s plans to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty within the next 10 years. Click here to read more from SDG news this week.
Jul
03
Only 39 percent of corporations believe they have targets “sufficiently ambitious” to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, according to a new report published on the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Leaders’ Summit. Click here to read more from SDG news this week.
Jul
03
Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has unveiled a $2.01b (an equivalent of N723.6b) COVID-19 global humanitarian response plan to fight the virus in poor countries, while addressing the needs of most vulnerable persons. Click here to read more from SDG news this week.
Jul
03
UN chief António Guterres is calling for greater unity and solidarity to defeat COVID-19 and build a better world in the wake of the global pandemic. Click here to read more from SDG news this week.
Jul
03
Crucial global goals to reduce hunger and poverty and curb climate change have gone backwards or stalled…as the Covid-19 outbreak moves from being a health crisis to becoming the “worst human and economic crisis of our lifetimes”. Click here to read more from SDG news this week.
Jul
03
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted that Nigeria and other Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries will lose over $200bn in income at the close of 2020 fiscal year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Click here to read more from SDG news this week
Jul
03
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has finally confirmed what has become all too obvious to many since the Buhari administration took office in 2015: that Nigerians have been regressing deeper and deeper into unrelenting poverty due to poor economic management and sheer ineptitude. Click here to read more SDG... read more →