Nigeria: UNFPA, DFID Want Pact With Government to Save Lives

28 September 2016

Abuja — The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Great Britain's Department for International Development (DfID) are seeking greater collaboration with the Federal Government to save more Nigerians from preventable and avoidable deaths.

To this effect, the Executive Director of UNFPA, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin and the Permanent Secretary of the United Kingdom's (UK's) DfID, Mark Lowcock, yesterday arrived in Nigeria on a mission to boost reproductive health services.

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