Family planning is crucial to combating poverty in Nigeria

Young women are at risk of unintended pregnancy, often resulting in unsafe abortion.Over 1.3 million unintended pregnancies occur annually in Nigeria.

Well over half (760,000) of these pregnancies result in abortion.

54 percent of young women in Nigeria give birth by age 20.

The best maternal mortality estimate for Nigeria suggests that 54,000 women die each year due to pregnancy-related complications.

 The risk of injury and death from pregnancy-related complications is higher among teenaged mothers because they are more likely to experience an unsafe abortion and because they experience a higher risk of complications at birth due to underdeveloped bodies.Abortion is illegal in Nigeria, except to save a woman’s life.

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However, there are 1.2 billion adolescent in the world today, the astronomical rate at which Nigerians give birth call for concern, especially in Osun, and the Chad basin area.

There should be access to contraceptive for every woman in Nigeria, every woman should be able to make choices about her future.