The Acting Chairman, National Population Commission, Yusuf Anka says Nigeria still lags behind in the Cairo Commitment, with high maternal mortality rate.
Anka made this known at the commemoration of the 2019 World Population Day in Abuja, with the theme: ’25-Years of ICPD: Accelerating the Promise’.
The International Conference on Population and Development, ICPD was held in Cairo where an agreement was reached by one hundred and seventy nine countries.
It was adopted in 1994 in Cairo, Egypt, to adopt the visionary programme of action agreeing to put people first, and empower women to freely decide the timing and spacing of their pregnancies.
Anka noted that the critical issue facing Nigeria was how far the country had fared in meeting the targets of the Cairo Summit and what measures have been put in place to accelerate the full implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action.
