Nigerian Government to Limit Number of Children Per Mother

The Federal Government of Nigeria has said it is taking a shot at an arrangement that would confine the quantity of children that a mother could have in the nation.

The FG expressed that customary rulers and different pioneers in the nation were being engaged in respects to this, including the move was gone for tending to one of the " incredible difficulties " in the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan of the Federal Government.

This was made known by the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, while reacting to inquiries amid a session at the 24th Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja.

Ahmed Zainab stated that the nation's populace had been distinguished as one of the extraordinary difficulties going up against the effective execution of the ERGP. She 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. ”