Kano state recorded a low prevalence of modern contraceptive use of 5.8 per cent in 2018.
An expert on reproductive health, Habib Sadauki, stated this Thursday at high consultative meeting on family planning in the state.
The conference was organised by development Research and Project Centre, dPRC.
Mr Sadauki, a consultant gynecologist, recalled that the modern contraceptive use in Kano in 2013 was 1.3 per cent, but has risen over the years to 5.8 per cent in 2018.
He said two decades ago, it was a taboo to discuss family planning in the Ministry of Health, not to mention demanding for budgetary allocation.
He observed that there is no budget for family planning in Kano state’s appropriation law 2020, despite family planning commodities and consumables out of stock in many public hospitals.
“Presently, Kano has 5.8 fertility rate, which is above the 5.3 national average. Based on this trend, the state population would be more than 50 million by 2050.
“The state government has anticipated the implication of this uncontrolled population growth and adopted free family planning services, national family planning coasted implementation plan and integrated outreach,” Mr Sadauki said.
The director general of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Habu Gumel, in a message sent to the conference, said the institute is collaborating with dRPC.
The collaboration is bordered on advocacy to increase funding for family planning, routine immunization, ending killer diseases in children and primary health care.
Mr Gumel, a professor of political science, revealed that at the current population growth, Nigeria will be among the four most populous countries in the world by 2050, with an estimated population of 289 million.
