Nigeria – Stakeholders seek stronger policies to ending unsafe abortions, GBV

3rd July 2025
By Taiwo Bankole

Stakeholders, including medical doctors, lawyers, gynaecologists and policymakers have demanded a more pragmatic approach including increased awareness, strong legal backing, and improved access to reproductive health services to tackle the menace of unsafe abortion among other gender-based violence.

The call was made in Abeokuta on Wednesday during a high-level round table meeting with policymakers and other stakeholders on the progress of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Ogun State.

Continued: https://punchng.com/stakeholders-seek-stronger-policies-to-ending-unsafe-abortions-gbv/

03.07.2025

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Caroline Wambue

Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi

Sanwo-Olu keeps mum on suspended Lagos abortion guidelines two years after

2nd June 2024
By Angela Onwuzoo

Two years after the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, directed the suspension of the implementation of the state’s new policy guidelines on the provision of safe abortions, the governor has yet to lift the suspension despite appeal by stakeholders.

Some stakeholders who spoke exclusively with PUNCH Healthwise on the need for the governor to reinstate the guideline without further delay, revealed that cases of unsafe abortion in the state had assumed a worrisome dimension due to the economic hardship.

Continued: https://punchng.com/sanwo-olu-keeps-mum-on-suspended-lagos-abortion-guidelines-two-years-after/

Stakeholders move to lift ban on safe abortion guidelines in Lagos

By Josephine Agbonkhese
Nov 21, 2023

Civil society leaders, stakeholders and medical experts have embarked on a move to develop a roadmap for an advocacy campaign geared towards lifting the suspension on guidelines for safe termination of pregnancy in Lagos State.

This was the crux of a two-day meeting organised in Lagos by the Women Advocates Research & Documentation Centre, WARDC, with support from AmplifyChange, as part of its ongoing Project Enhance initiative aimed at ‘Enhancing Women’s Voices to Demand Accountability on Safe Abortion and Preventable Maternal Deaths in Lagos’.

Continued: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/11/stakeholders-move-to-lift-ban-on-safe-abortion-guidelines-in-lagos/

21.11.2023