United Nations Association of Nigeria (UNA-Nigeria) has said broad and intentional collaboration at all levels of society is an essential ingredient, if United Nations Sustainable Development Goals were to be achieved by 2030.
These, among others, were submissions as UNA-Nigeria marked 80 years of United Nations (UN@80) and UNA-Nigeria Day in Lagos.
The two-day event with the theme: “Fostering Social Collaboration for Sustainable Future”, and sub-theme: “Shaping Our Future Together”, was held at Nigeria Institute of the International Affairs (NIIA).
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President of UNA-Nigeria, Prof. Oluremi Olutimo, regretted that Africans tended to shun collaboration, a habit which he said had hindered development over the years.
“There is this ugly belief that when you collaborate your idea will be stolen. Even if such ideas are stolen, it is for the benefit of the society because for someone to steal from you it means you are better than him.
“We must resist the temptation to go to the grave with ideas that should have helped the society,” he said. Promoting public private partnership with the slogan “Leave no one behind”, he added, was a project which everyone must key into.
Delivering his address, Prof. Efem Ubi, director of Studies at NIIA, said collaboration had become a sine qua non for survival, as no nation could go it alone.