Stakeholders in Lagos State government in partnership with United Nations Population Fund(UNFPA), Access corporation and HACEY Health Initiative have highlight measures to harness demographic dividends in the country to attract viable opportunities for resource allocation, human capital development and expand competitiveness in foreign and labour markets.
The stakeholders said, this would champion the need for private and public partnerships at regional and state levels to address the critical issues of state migration while urging the full implementation of demographic documents.
This is even as they asserted that poverty, illiteracy and religion have been projected to be the problem of population in Nigeria while hinting that a record of over 1.8 million unplanned pregnancies occured in 2020 which resulted to pandemic babies.
Similarly, in its bid to create viable opportunities despite the growing population, the stakeholders launched its first demographic dividend roadmap and estimation profile as part of efforts to harness the demographic dividends in Lagos State while adding that, this would improve sex education and create future awareness to propel growth and development.
The launch of the roadmap, according to the state government, will boost credible data collection in terms of population growth, Investment plan, employment, governance, skill development and migration.
