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A s Nigeria celebrates the World Population Day 2019, the Nation needs to strategically implement effective people-oriented programmes that can stem the tide of the negative impact of unbridled population explosion on the countries resources and stability.  Development Communications (DevComs) Network, call on everyone to celebrate this year’s World Population Day with the theme: “25 Years of ICPD: Accelerating the Promise” and make the ICPD promises a reality for the betterment of all Nigerians. Nigeria’s rising population remains a threat to the country’s economic and social development, 25 years after the historic International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). The little resources apportioned for a certain number of people is being stretched to more people because of the large population thereby stagnating future development and advancement of the country. Photo: The Nigeria Child, what future do they have? The ICPD was the inau...

Stakeholders call for Increase budget for Family planning As a strategy to control and avert the implication of rapid population growth in order to achieve sustainable development goals, stakeholders have called for increased budgetary allocation for family planning as Nigeria joins the rest of the work to mark 2017 World Population Day (WPD).  Speaking on the 2017 WPD theme, Family Planning, Birth Spacing: Empowering People, Developing Nations, in a recent release by National Population Commission (NPC), its Chairman, Chief Eze Duruiheoma, stated that family planning and birth spacing are measures to attain a sustainable family size by way of allowing for adequate intervals between births, employing especially the use of contraception. Eze said that, “Family planning is not only about saving lives but also empowering people and developing nations. Family and birth spacing are personal decisions but their profound implication on health, economic and social wellbeing of the socie...