United Nations Millennium Development Goals And Challenges Of Development In Nigeria

ABSTRACT

There is no gainsaying the fact that development is essential and

inevitable in every human society. Thus every society strives towards

development invariably giving rise to uneven or unequal development. In other

words, it gives rise to a situation whereby some societies develop at a greater

pace than others. This can be attributed to the divergent developmental

challenges peculiar to that society. For the society to develop, therefore, it must

surmount all these hurdles.

Nigeria and other States tagged the Global South have long been

bedeviled with a plethora of developmental woes thus necessitating the

launching of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the United

Nations in 2000. The MDGs include eight goals the major thrust of which is to

halve poverty by the year 2015. Though modest in its entirety, the MDGs mark

a departure from previously internationally generated development programmes

and policies as it is centred on human welfare with no conditionalities attached.

The Marxist Theory of the State was employed in the broad task of this

study which is to explore the MDGs and challenges of development in Nigeria.

This study equally shows the link between political corruption and policy

implementation.