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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.

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.

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. 

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   

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 →

With only a decade left until 2030, the UN Secretary-General has announced that we are at a crossroads in the achievement of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, and member states have released a political declaration to demand accelerated implementation. Click here to read more from SDG news this week. 

Eight out of 10 people think billionaires should help end poverty, inequality and a host of global ills, a poll showed on Wednesday, as funding shortages and the new coronavirus stymied hopes of meeting the United Nations' development goals for 2030. Click here to read more from SDG news this... read more →