On Tuesday, the Federal Government of Nigeria made it known that it was working on a policy that would limit the number of children that a mother could have in Nigeria.
This us to addrsss of one of the “great challenges” in the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan of the Federal Government.
Zainab Ajmed, the Minister of Finance, disclosed this while responding to questions during a session at the 24th Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja.
Ahmed said,
“We have been engaging traditional rulers and other leaders. Specifically, we have found out that to be able to address one of the great challenges that we identified in the ERGP, which is the growth in our population, we need to engage these institutions.
“And we hope that with their support, we will get to a point where we can come out with the policy that limits the number of children that a mother can have because that is important for sustaining our growth.”