Agency Stakeholders for the advancement of family planning in Nigeria have reiterated the need to use contraceptive concept to regulate the explosive population growth in Nigeria. The stakeholders said this in Abuja at the 5th Local Organising Committee meeting on the 8th Nigeria Family Planning Conference which is scheduled to hold in December. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the stakeholders comprised of some Civil Society Organisations government agencies and the media.
A member of the LOC, and the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria , Dr Okai Aku, said that the conference was a biennial event. Aku said the it would discuss modalities for promoting family planning concepts for the economic benefit of Nigerians. According to him, the conference will be discussing so many things on family planning, ranging from policies and remodelling of policies towards the concept.
“The population crisis is actually facing us now, we have to think of the best investment in terms of managing our population with the application of the concept of family planning or child spacing. “We are not saying that people should stop giving birth, but when you have a manageable population you will know how to provide essential services. “We will also be speaking to decision makers as it relates to policies on family planning; and also sensitise service providers on the need to provide quality services for the people, ” he said.
Aku said that the stakeholders wo.