{"id":975895,"date":"2022-02-04T09:41:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T09:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/buhari-calls-for-more-modern-contraceptives-over-rising-population\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:41:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T09:41:02","slug":"buhari-calls-for-more-modern-contraceptives-over-rising-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/buhari-calls-for-more-modern-contraceptives-over-rising-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Calls For More Modern Contraceptives Over Rising Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-836917 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/super-eagles-defeat-encourage-them-to-bounce-back-and-do-better-next-time-president-buhari-tells-nigerians-600x315.jpg\" alt=\"Buhari Calls For More Modern Contraceptives Over Rising Population\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>To combat the country\u2019s growing population, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationng.com\/2022\/02\/buhari-to-attend-au-summit-in-addis-ababa.html\">President Muhammadu Buhari<\/a> on Thursday called for the expansion of access to modern contraceptive methods across the country.<\/p>\n<p>President Buhari stated at the inauguration of the new National Policy on Population for Sustainable Development at the State House in Abuja that the policy\u2019s overall purpose is to improve the quality of life and living conditions of all Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>The President also inaugurated the national council on population management, which he chairs.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationng.com\/2022\/02\/lagos-population-causing-challenges-in-health-others-says-aregbesola.html\">Lagos Population Causing Challenges In Health, Others, Says Aregbesola<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe policy emphasizes the urgency to address Nigeria\u2019s sustained high fertility rate, through expanding access to modern family planning, counselling and commodities as well as promote births spacing,\u201d Buhari was quoted as saying in a statement issued by his spokesman, Femi Adesina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will enable Nigeria to achieve rapid fertility control, improve the health of women, adolescents, newborn and children, and other population groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To combat the country\u2019s growing population, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday called for the expansion of access to modern contraceptive methods across the country. President Buhari stated at the inauguration of the new National Policy on Population for Sustainable Development at the State House in Abuja that the policy\u2019s overall purpose is to improve the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":973161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}