Group Charges FG On Early Pregnancy, Infant Mortality

The Federal Govern
ment  has been enjoined to shun any move to commercialise education, instead, it should be used as a tool to fight against early and unwanted pregnancy as well as infant mortality
The President of Women Arise For Change Initiative, Dr Joe-Okei Odumakin, made the call  earlier in the week in Lagos, in a news briefing to mark the 6th year memorial  anniversary  of Late Chief Gani Fawehinmi.
Dr Odumakin said that education helps to reduce the rate of infant mortality and improves child’s nutrition and health. According to her, any woman who is empowered through education, has a powerful antidote against the risk of early pregnancy.
Meanwhile, the Gani Fawehinmi Memorial Organisation, has called on the Federal Government to make education the bedrock of its socio-economic and political development.
Mr Ayodele Akele, the Chairman of the organisation, made the call on Monday in Lagos at a news briefing to mark the 6th year memorial anniversary of Late Chief Gani Fawehinmi.
He said there was the need for the government to look into the operational challenges facing the sector with a view to find lasting solutions to them.
“Education is the means by which society reproduces itself in terms of passing to the new generation, the shared societal culture, mode and quality of management of different sectors of the economy.
Akele expressed concern that in spite of the pivotal role of education to national transformation, Nigeria’s educational system had virtually collapsed precipitating strikes and other protests.
He stressed the need for government at all levels to adopt and implement the universal policy that regards education as a right and not a privilege, which Fawehinmi stood and fought for before his death.
He urged the government to establish Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Square in Abuja where aggrieved Nigerians could gather peacefully without any molestation protest and ventilate their angers.
The chairman also reiterated the need for government to immortalise Fawehinmi by naming the National Human Rights Commission after him.