Nigeria: First Lady Seeks End to Teenage Pregnancies in Africa

The First Lady and President of African First Ladies Peace Mission, Dame Patience Jonathan, has canvassed for the reduction of teenage pregnancies across Africa. Dame Patience Jonathan stated this at the just concluded National Strategy seminar for the reduction of teenage pregnancies in Sierra Leone, with the theme, "Let Girls Be Girls, Not Mothers."

In a press statement signed by the Media Adviser to the First Lady, Omoba Kenneth Aigbegbele, Patience Jonathan called for a synergy and partnership between the traditional institutions, religious leaders and opinion leaders on the essence of working together with civil society organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).

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