Family Planning: Health Experts Task FG On Funding To Check Population Explosion

CHIOMA UMEHA Lagos Studies have shown that family planning protects the health of women and children as well as reduces ugly risky overpopulation burdens by helping a family to plan and responsibly fulfill its parental roles. The media is replete with many reports which X-rays the roles of family planning in population control, more so in view of the newest Nigeria’s population figures which is put at 201 million. It was therefore not surprising that critical stakeholders in the health sector have urged the Federal Government to invest in family planning programmes to check population explosion. There call came at the background of the just concluded 2019 World Population Day celebration. Stakeholders, who spoke with DAILY INDEPENDENT, said Nigeria’s rising population remained a threat to the country’s economic and social development. They maintained that the little resources meant for certain number of people, were being stretched for more people due to the large