The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed has said that the Federal Government is formulating a policy to limit the number of children that a mother could have in Nigeria.
Eyewitnessreporters reports that the Minister said this while addressing newmen during a session at the 24th Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja.
Zainab noted that the country’s population had been identified as one of the great challenges confronting the successful implementation of the ERGP.
She said, “We have been engaging traditional rulers and other leaders. Specifically, we have found out that to be able to address one of the great challenges that we identified in the ERGP, which is the growth in our population, we need to engage these institutions.
“And we hope that with their support, we will get to a point where we can come out with the policy that limits the number of children that a mother can have because that is important for sustaining our growth.”
