Road Safety in Nigeria: A Panacea to achieving the SDG’s
During my years as an undergraduate at the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University, one of the project i participated actively on achieving part of its set goals was the “ Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s)” which was set to be achieved for year 2015 (then as an executive member of the “All Nigeria United Nations Students’ and Youth Association (ANUNSA)” ) but unfortunately the Nation has a whole couldn’t achieve much of the MDG’s despite all efforts by Students organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations. However, the United Nations Organization has set yet another ambitious goals to be achieved by Nations around the world and more importantly the developing countries and it was termed the “Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). However, the SDG’s will be very difficult to achieve if “ Road Safety ” is not at the core of the policy implementation. There is no better reason than the fact that it is only when humans are “safe” that development can truly occ