{"id":355100,"date":"2017-09-20T21:12:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T21:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=355100"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:17:28","slug":"quality-education-most-vital-sdg-goal-for-africas-devt-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/quality-education-most-vital-sdg-goal-for-africas-devt-nana-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality education most vital SDG goal for Africa’s dev’t – Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reiterated his belief in the crucial role of education in the development of the African continent.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on Wednesday, Nana Addo stated that, ensuring universal access to education for all children on the continent within the next two decades, will greatly aid the improvement of the general standards of living on the continent.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”kpBcrl2ST6n0fLkZWsaRZeVpwmdrl4M6″]”The [SDG] goals go together, the 17 of them are all interconnected and if we are going to get the impact we’re looking for then all 17 have to work together. Secondly, global outcomes, if they are to succeed, means that they have to succeed in Africa. Unfortunately, Africa, sitting on the greatest resources\u00a0in the world also has the poorest populations. If the goals are to be seen to have succeeded, hey would have to have succeeded in Africa. The most important consideration for those of us given the privilege of political leadership is to find a way of selling the goals to our population as something that has a direct impact on their lives, not something created in New York by a group of politicians and bureaucrats,” he said.<\/p>\n
“As far as I’m concerned, the most important of them is education. If we can, and it’s eminently feasible, be in a situation whereby in 2030 we can say that all of Africa’s children are in schools and have access to quality education, \u00a0the impact of that on the development of the continent and the quality of life of the people will be enormous.”<\/p>\n