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Group Lauds Niger Govt. for Allocating Funds for Family Planning
An NGO, Child Spacing and Adolescent Youth Reproductive Health, has commended the Niger government for its recent allocation of funds for the family planning subsector.
This is contained in a statement issued on Sunday by the NGO, signed by its Project Director, Dr Aliyu Shehu, and made available to newsmen in Minna.
Shehu said that the measure would give a new hope for improved health care provision for women of reproductive health in the state.
“Allocation of budget line marks a new hope for improved health care provision for women of reproductive health in the state, amidst shortages in releasing funds to the family planning subsector.
“We commend the state government on the giant stride of allocating a budget line to family planning.
“It will further enhance and fast track the processes of funding allocation and releases to the family planning sector,” he said.
Shehu said that the group met and deliberated on issues relating to child spacing in Niger.
He said the group also met to mobilise resources and generate the political will toward tackling the challenges associated with family planning and adolescent reproductive health in the state.
He said the budgetary allocation to the health sector in Niger in 2021 has dropped, compared to the allocations in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
According to him, the current allocation of 6.5 per cent to the health sector in the state has fallen short of the Abuja Commitment of 15 per cent to the health sector.
Shehu expressed concern over the lack of budgetary allocation to the family planning subsector, over the years.
According to him, “funding shortages will lead to Niger indigenes likely being responsible for their healthcare needs and this will have catastrophic consequences for women of reproductive health.
“This will in turn hamper the indices of the state and so the blueprint commitment of increasing the state Contraceptive Prevalent Rate (CPR) from six per cent to 25 per cent will not be achieved.
“This could result to more women dying from complications of pregnancy and childbirth,“ he said.
The project director called for adequate and prompt release of funds to the health sector to enhance the achievements of the state 2017 family planning blueprint commitment of increasing its CPR from 6.6 per cent to 25 per cent.
“In order to avoid catastrophic consequences to Nigerlites and women of reproductive age as a result of poor releases to family planning, there is the need for improved and adequate releases to the health sector,’’ he said.
Shehu urged the state government, the state assembly and all relevant stakeholders to do the needful by reviewing the health sector allocation in the 2021 budget and improving on funds released to the family planning sector.
“There is the urgent need to review upward the percentage allocation to health sector in the 2021 budget and for government to strengthen its commitment of allotting budget line for child spacing,“ he said.
The meeting was supported by the Development Research and Project Centre (DRPC), an NGO. (NAN)
A bill to rename the Benue State University (BSU) Makurdi to Moses Orshio Adasu University has passed first reading at the Benue State House Assembly.
The bill was read during Wednesday plenary by the acting Clerk of the House, Mr John Hwande.
Also during the plenary, a bill for the establishment of Benue State University of Agriculture, Science, and Technology, Ihugh, in Vandeikya local government area also passed first.
Daily asset reports that three other bills also passed first reading.
The bills include a bill for a law to amend a free and compulsory basic education and a bill for a law to establish a task force on quality healthcare and prevention of quackery in the state.
Report says that two out of the bills, which were from the executive, were presented to the house by the Majority Leader, Mr Saater Tiseer.
The others were presented by the member representing Gboko East Constituency, Mrs. Becky Orpin, and that of Kwande West, Mr Thomas Dugeri.
The Speaker, Aondona Dajoh, who presided over plenary, referred them to the House Standing Committee on Rules and Business for further legislative scrutiny. (NAN)
President Bola Tinubu has approved the swap of Pro-Chancellors and Chairmen of the Governing Councils of Federal University Oye-Ekiti and its Lokoja counterpart.
Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
“In the reshuffling, Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba, the Pro-Chancellor of Federal University, Lokoja, will move to Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, while Mr Kayode Ojo, who previously held a similar position at Oye-Ekiti, will assume same role in Lokoja.
“This strategic change is part of Tinubu’s initiative to foster diversity and national cohesion in the management of the country’s universities,” he said.
(NAN)
Mr John Kwaghe has assumed duty as the new Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Delta.
This is contained in a statement signed by Mrs Stella Ogbummuo, NYSC state Public Relations Officer, on Wednesday in Asaba.
The statement said that Mr Kwaghe, who holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Master’s degree in Career Management hails from Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State.
“The new state coordinate has worked in many states and the National Directorates Headquarters in different capacities including Ekiti and Nasarawa State.
“In line with the NYSC National Directorate Headquarters’ sustained drive to optimise the scheme’s operations nationwide, a new state coordinator has been posted to take over the headship of NYSC Delta State secretariat.
“He will take over from Mr Olusegun Alao, who has been transferred to NYSC South South Area Office 1, Delta State,” Ogbummuo stated. (NAN)
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