Buhari tells United Nations Nigeria aims to eliminate poverty and illiteracy by 2030

altPRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has told world leaders that his administration hopes to totally eradicate illiteracy and hunger from Nigeria by 2030 as part of an ambitious post-2015 development agenda.

 

Addressing the United Nations Plenary Summit for the adoption of the Post-2015 Development Agenda, President Buhari said his administration was taking steps to improve and streamline internal generation of revenue and to plug all loopholes that have led to illicit capital flight from Nigeria. He also reaffirmed his administration’s total commitment to the entrenchment of a fully transparent and accountable public revenue management system in Nigeria.

 

In addition, he told the gathering that his government was also putting mechanisms in place to prevent oil theft and other criminal practices that are detrimental to Nigeria’s economy. Applauding the adoption of the Post-2015 Global Development Agenda, President Buhari said that he was very pleased that world leaders had reaffirmed their commitment to sustainable development, international peace and security and the protection of the planet.

 

President Buhari said: “The Post-2015 Development Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals together with the Addis Ababa Action Agenda that we adopted in July 2015 offer us a unique opportunity to address the unfinished business of the Millennium Development Goals. They also provide the basis for a new set of global development priorities to usher in a peaceful and prosperous world, where no one is left behind, and where the freedom from fear and want, and for everyone to live in dignity, is enthroned.”

 

Stressing that illiteracy, hunger and diseases are associated evils that go hand in hand with poverty, President Buhari urged the assembled world leaders to do everything possible to eliminate these ills from our midst by 2030 as the declaration loudly proclaims. He also said that Nigeria was proud to have availed her services to the United Nations in co-chairing the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing, whose work contributed in no small measure to the expansion of financing for development strategies.

 

Tomorrow, President Buhari will be among world leaders, speaking at a special event at the ongoing United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York targeted at investing in young people to secure peace and security in Lake Chad Basin nations. According to the United Nations media advisory, the forum is organised in support of ongoing initiatives for countries affected by the current Boko Haram terrorist crisis in the Lake Chad Basin including Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria.

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