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Tinubu Renews Commitment to Empowering Girls, Women, Youths
President Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to the welfare and empowerment of girls, women, and youths.
Speaking at the unveiling of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) State of the World Population 2024 Report, President Tinubu emphasised the need to address the challenges facing this vulnerable demographic.
The UNFPA flagship State of the World Population Report, with the theme: Interwoven Lives, Threads of Hope: Ending Inequalities in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, followed the global launch in Geneva on April 17.
Represented by the Minster of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, the President highlighted the importance of ensuring that girls stay in school and avoid early motherhood.
He noted that women and girls have been badly impacted by various factors, adding that it had become necessary to help them meet their aspirations.
“Meeting the aspirations of the population affected by these inter-woven threats, who are mostly women, girls and young people, places a great demand and a sense of duty on us all to keep that hope alive. We must fulfil the promises to accelerate actions in Nigeria and ensure no woman dies giving birth.
“We must ensure that girls stay in school instead of becoming mothers at tender ages, provide access to quality health care and services everywhere, including accelerated access to family planning as fundamental for managing our population.
“Also, we must ensure the implementation of laws to end gender-based violence and harmful practices like early/forced marriages, female genital mutilation, that are against women and girls and indirectly against true and enduring development of our nation and people.
“The narrative in the paragraph that was just quoted above, are part of the concerns that formed the Renewed Hope Agenda, particularly anchored on strengthening the four D principles: Development, Democracy, Demography, and Diaspora, aimed at integrating modern solutions into our policies.
“With a dynamic population of 220 million that is youthful, growing fast and projected to 450 million by 2050, making us among the fourth or fifth largest, most populous countries in the world by then, and with our rich cultural diversity, we are poised to harness our demographic potential for development of our country,” President Tinubu said.