growth of population come many challenges that people have to face and Nigeria is no exception. Nigeria, a country located in West Africa, is the sixth most populous country in the world with a total population of over 167 million (Rosenthal). The issues that Nigeria goes through as a result of population growth are just a few of the issues that many other populated countries face worldwide. The high rates of unemployment, crime, poverty as well as lack of health and education in
extreme poverty and hunger 2. Achievement of universal primary education 3. Promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women, 4. Reduction of child mortality 5. Improvement in maternal health 6. Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, 7. Ensuring environmental sustainability and 8. Develop a global partnership for development. The accomplishing focus of these objectives is until 2015. Subsequently such advancement methodologies are critical to meet these objectives. Poverty is serious
public. With the MDGs’ expiration date of 2015 fast approaching, the world community is focusing on the development of a post-2015 agenda. This paper seeks to contribute to this process by highlighting the main strengths and weaknesses of the MDGs in Nigeria and Haiti, deriving the lessons that can be learned from almost 15 years of experience with the MDGs. Building on these lessons, the paper suggests different ways of how they could inform and enrich the process towards the formulation of a new development
activities. Unfortunately, there are many health related issues and diseases that have been serious challenges to human kind. Diseases such as cancer, HIV, chronic illnesses, unpredicted accidents, and many others have been unavoidable situation for some people. Each ethnicity groups also are genetically tied to a certain type of illnesses. Poverty and lack of education play a major role in these health issues. Inability to secure a good health insurance has led to death of many people and left others
The struggle for better health care and healthy life in Nigeria is complicated, when given the country’s social determinants. These determinants are so convoluted that it is difficult to isolate any of one of them. For example, environmental factors such, as safe water, clean air and housing are realistic important, however, the prominence of good sanitation for better health is equally essential. Physical environment i.e. harmless water, unpolluted air, healthy environment, better housing, social
Country Information: Northern Africa: Algeria- The citizens are living in poverty, but the nation is wealthy due to their mass amounts of oil. Their economy level is upper middle income rate. Within the country there is about 18,000 people living with HIV or AIDS. Algeria is willing to direct money towards healthcare, but it is riddled with poor infrastructure. Its citizens generally favor Western Medicine. Unfortunately the country faces overpopulation, and is overcrowded in some cities. Egypt-
The current youth is the future. The minds that are still developing are the ones that will be shaping the way the world will continue to progress and what that kind of progress will look like. The world is currently progressing towards power and control, and has been since the beginning of history. The way to achieve power is what has been changing. Whoever has the most bombs, nuclear weapons, or who is feared the most has the most control. Terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram, and other
health status can be closely related to poverty. In terms of financial accessibility, the poor might find it difficult to strike a balance that is the relationship between the willingness and ability of people to pay for quality
pursues other needs of clothing and shelter. The Food security challenge for a growing population was an alarm raised by Thomas Robert Malthus in “An Essay on the Principle of Population”, to bring our consciousness to the topic of the food crisis in Nigeria. When Malthus posed the challenge of feeding the world population, there were around 900 million, but now we have 7.2 billion people on the planet and with the global population continuing to grow by around 75 million people per year, the challenge
CHAPTER I 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1.1 Definition and concept of corruption Eric, Spector and Frances, (2003) holds that corruption and poverty have the same footsteps in developing nations. The level of poverty are influenced by Corruption in the both public and private sectors. Occasionally, countries experiencing acute poverty are the natural breeding places for corruption. The worse form of corruption include stealing of funds meant for public projects, diversion of public programs and payment of