Leadership (Abuja)
Nanman Sunday Wormis
24 September 2008
National Population Commission (NPC), has launched a strategic plan for implementation under the National Policy on Population for Sustainable Development to check population explosion in the country.
Following this development, the two committees, the Population Advisory Group and Population Technical Working Group, were inaugurated to support the implementation process.
The Chairman of NPC, Chief Samu'ila Danko Makama, said that the constitution of the PAG, was a bold step to give the implementation of the national population policy a new and positive directive in Nigeria. He said that the 5.7 per cent fertility rate in the 2003 Nigeria Health Demographic Health Survey was too high for the nation.
He added that for a gigantic and complex project like the new national population policy, the need for effective feedback mechanisms at the various stages of policy implementation cannot be over-emphaised. This, he said, is necessary for policy review and assessment of progress made and obstacles experienced.
He disclosed that at that rate of fertility, Nigeria's population would double and hit 225 million mark in about 17 years.
According to the chairman, the implementation of this population growth would be too much for the country to bear.
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