 In Nigeria, an estimated 14,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and over 7,900 women die from the disease every year. To reduce the mortality rate of women in Nassarawa states, the federal government of Nigeria have commenced a vaccination exercise of young girls between the ages of 9 and 14 years against the human papillomavirus which is responsible for cervical cancer in women. Speaking at a one-day stake order's engagement for the introduction of the HPV vaccine in Latvia on Thursday, the Executive Secretary of the Nassarawa State Primary Health Care Development Agency Dr. Mohamed Usman said the aim of the exercise was to completely eradicate cervical cancer in the state. Also in his speech, a representative of the World Health Organization as a one-day Christoffer explained that the vaccination exercise was important owing to the fact that cervical cancer killed many young females in the country. Our man, yes the son of the soil, is part of the affair at regional level. I'm talking about Dr. Faisal. So I think other states face a cervical phase but Nassarawa is among the 16 states that will be implementing the vaccine. So the age bracket is 9 to 14 years. The 9 to 14 years is going to be in compare. We are going to track all these age brackets within one week after which is going to be routinized. It's more of catch up compare. Catch up in the sense that from 9 years to 14 years we will try, please try to track them wherever they are with vasneten. After that is going to be routinized. We are going to use it as a routine. It's going to be at the vasneten level whereby the age bracket 9 is going to be only 9 years.