As Nigeria joins the global community to celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day, women advocates have called on the Federal Government to revamp the nation’s substandard primary healthcare ce
ntres with money recovered from foreign accounts of late dictator, Gen.Sani Abacha.
They advised the government to prioritise healthcare delivery at all levels, while they also urged the authorities to uphold the rights of women and girls in development agenda. One of the advocates and Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York, OlufunkeMojubaolu, said Nigeria has the largest number of poor people in the world, citing the World Bank.The Nigerian-born professor said, “We are recovering the Abacha loot and it must be channelled into key areas of development, such as health.
“Access to healthcare is women’s right and for Nigeria to be giant of Africa, we must prioritise women’s right.”
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