INDICATION emerged Thursday that Nigeria may not meet the major targets under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the 2015 deadline.
A report released Thursday showed that the country is unlikely to meet the deadline for poverty eradication as five of every 10 Nigerians are said to live in poverty.
The report doubted the ability of the country to scale the deadline on improved maternal health and environmental sustainability.
The government released the report at a workshop in Abuja on the validation of the 2010 MDGs report and five-year countdown strategy for Nigeria.
The report noted that the implementation of the MDGs in the country in the past years is a mixed-bag of modest and steady progress on some goals and slow progress on others.
The report said of eight goals, Nigeria has recorded an average performance on five with less satisfactory performance on three others.
Listed under the less satisfactory performance are goals 1, 5 and 7.
Under Goal 1, the report noted that "although poverty has reduced since 2000, the reality is that among every 10 Nigerians, five still live in poverty. Growth has not been sufficiently equitable or generated employment."
But it said nutrition has improved.
On Goal 5, which is on improve maternal health, the report noted that though there is sizeable reduction of maternal mortality ratio from 800/100,000 (2003) to 157/100,000 (2008), proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel increased slightly from 36 per cent (2003) to 39 per cent (2008).
It said there was an increase in contraceptive prevalence rate from 8.0 per cent (2003) to 10.0 per cent (2008).
The report said environmental sustainability, which is Goal 7, may not be achieved.
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