Politics
A workshop for permanent secretaries on how to manage government policies and programmes in driving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Niger commenced on Tuesday in Minna.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the two-day workshop is to keep the permanent secretaries abreast of how to attain and sustain SDGs in the state.
Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger, opening the workshop, described SDGs “as fundamental in driving the economic prosperity of the state and the country as a whole’’.
Bello said that there was need to mainstream SDGs in planning and programming framework.
He said there was need for proper coordination between the ministries, agencies and planning commission responsible for collecting and generating data in order to attain SDGs.
The governor, represented by Alhaji Ahmed Matane, Secretary to the State Government, called on the permanent secretaries, as chief technocrats of government, to use the workshop to help them coordinate SDG activities.
“I want to call on the responsible agencies to be up and doing. SDGs should not be talked about in Abuja, it should be talked about in the state and the local government areas.
“Every activity of SDGs takes place in villages, communities and the state.
“There is need to start an approach into managing the SDGs and not the way it is being anchored now,” Bello said.
According to the governor, the United Nations had been driving attainment of SDGs in countries, but Nigeria was far behind in attaining SDGs due to insufficient information and statistics.
Earlier, Alhaji Shuaibu Adamu, Acting Head of Service, said the workshop was to re-engineer the permanent secretaries to be up and doing in driving their ministries and agencies toward attaining sustainable development goals.
Also, Alhaji Sheriff Balogun, the Training Facilitator and Deputy President, Federation of Commodity Farmers in Nigeria, said the workshop was to make the permanent secretaries conversant with activities of SDGs.
Balogun said that the SDG programmes were to eradicate poverty among rural communities, adding that it was of immense benefit to everybody. (NAN)
– Sept. 3, 2019 @ 14:07 GMT |
Tags: Niger State trains permanent secretaries on sustaining SDGs
