Dr Mabingue Ngom, the Regional Director for West and Central Africa, United Nations Population Fund, has said that child marriage has remained an impediment to achieving Demographic Dividend in Nigeria.
Ngom made this known while fielding questions at the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja.
According to UNFPA, DD is the economic growth potential that can result from shifts in a population’s age structure.
This can occur when the share of the working-age population (15 to 64) is larger than the non-working age share of the population (14 and younger).
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The UNFPA regional director noted that the most under-appreciated, yet highly effective areas of investment a country could give to its citizens was its reproductive health.
He added that if we continue to marry off young girls at the age of 13 and younger, there would…
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