The National Social Protection Policy (NSPP) is designed to show the commitment of the Government of Nigeria to the effective mobilisation and efficient utilisation of national resources to improve the quality of life of its citizens. The NSPP has been developed using a bottom-up approach. It has benefitted from the insights of wide consultations with stakeholders and experts.
The Federal Ministry of Education constituted a Committee to develop exclusively the first broad -based National Policy on Special Needs Education (SNE) in Nigeria. The constitution of the drafting committee with the mandate to formulate a National Policy on Special Needs Education gave birth to the National Situation Analysis Report. This implies that the status has changed to a National Policy (an expanded version) thereby widening its scope and activities.
National migration policy 2015
National policy on Education
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with an estimated population of over 198 million in 2018, which is estimated to grow to 210 million by 2021 based on a growth rate of 3.2% (NPC 2018). Nigeria is a federation of 36 states and a Federal Capital Territory, Abuja as the national capital. There are 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs) distributed across 6 geo-political zones. The Nigerian 1999 Constitution (as amended) guarantees the right to health.
Before the decade of the 1960s, the dominant role of agriculture in Nigeria’s economy was taken for granted. With very little support from government, Nigerian agriculture was able to grow at a sufficient rate to provide adequate food for an increasing population, raw materials for a budding industrial sector, increasing public revenue and foreign exchange for government and employment opportunities for an expanding labour force.
The National Food and Nutrition Policy is a document that provides the framework for addressing the problems of food and nutrition insecurity in Nigeria, from the individual, household, community and up to the national level. It guides the identification, design, and implementation of intervention activities across different relevant sectors. Nutrition is a multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary issue involving various sectors including health, agriculture, science and technology, education, trade, economy, and industry.
The first case of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Nigeria was reported in 1986. Since then, infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has spread to become a generalised epidemic affecting all population groups and sparing no geographical area in the country. HIV/ AIDS has negatively impacted every sector of the economy, and continues to threaten the national development gains of the past decades.
The functions of the Institute are:
(a) to provide consultancy services to the Federal and State Governments, their agencies and organisations, in the field of economic and social development;
(b) to conduct research into the economic and social problems of the country with a view to the applications of the results thereof;
(c) to organise seminars and conferences on problems of economic and social development in the country, whether on its own accounts or on behalf of the government of Nigeria or their agencies; and