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Nigeria’s Creative Youth Community Development Initiative (CYCDI), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has urged Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, to work towards building the state to a sustainable mega city.

In a statement on Tuesday in Basel, Switzerland, Foluke Michael, CYCDI’s chief executive officer and project director, said Lagos possessed the biggest potential to give expression to values of the United Nations SDGs solution due to its “ever-growing” population.

CYCDI won the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Action Award in 2018.

Michael said Lagos is blessed to have “a highly cerebral governor with positive credentials and enviable track record of performance”.

“We at CYCDI are happy that Lagos State has a new governor who, among other qualities, possesses a belief in the SDGs cause, which means that creative solutions to curb and eliminate world problems as proposed by the United Nations would receive fair attention and better implementation under his administration,” she said.

“Sanwo-Olu’s government’s THEMES agenda perfectly resonates with the SDGs and with proper implementation will put Lagos on the path of Sustainable City and Communities; a key element of the goals.”

Michael said the process to replicate “CYCDI’s SDGs Solution 17” model is on-going in Morocco and India, while she shared ideas behind the model in different platforms.

“To further drive the initiative, CYCDI has partnered with one of Nigeria’s leading strategic management outfits, CITC, to help expand on the offerings of her creative product; Solution17, which earned her the award and has put the organisation on world map as one of the frontline campaigners of the goals,” she said.