Family Planning - tool for population control
Medical stakeholders called for more investment in Family Planning methods to provide adequate sexual and reproductive health services.
A group of Kenyan women listen during a course at the local maternity facility on what Islam allows and does not allow in terms of family planning, and on the benefits of family planning at a village in north-eastern Wajir County
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The stakeholders, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, also called for more investment in Family Planning methods to provide adequate sexual and reproductive health services in the country.
The theme for 2017 World Population Day is: “Family Planning: Empowering People, Developing Nations’’.
As at Monday, July 10, a website, www.worldometers estimates the current population of Nigeria to be at 191,892,343 , based on the latest United Nations (UN) estimates.
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