 Thanks for staying with us. Now to Adama state where federal government has assured victims of recent gunman attacks of adequate security. Secretary told the government of the federation, both Mustafa gave this assurance while visiting the victims of the attack to commissuate with them. Students in Adama state, northeast Nigeria are yet to experience any incident of kidnapping of building students since the incident started. While the police have promised to safeguard all schools across the state. Insecurities rife in Adama but the state police command also appears battle ready to flush out miscreants. Part of the strategy adopted is that we engage all the principal and the leaders of all schools, secondaries, primary and we keep patrolling most of the school and we equally go to the extent of advising the management of those schools to employ the services of vigilante and all these hunters which we collaborate with them and we visit them, visit give them support. Nigeria union of teachers Adama appeals to government to take serious measures that will give students the confidence to study without fear or threat. On government's position regarding local hunters and other security outfits in all the schools across the country, the state chairman of NUT has this advice. These traditional hunters or whatever you call them, almost every place we have them, in every village we have them, why can't government contract these people and give them as a contract if they can not be employed so that they take care of our schools. When schools are closed, everybody goes back to his normal life, when schools are open in the morning from 7, they should be around the school, protecting the students, after closing hours, everybody goes, they too go home. Parents and other education stakeholders in Adama can only hope that with adequate government support for the police and other security outfits in the state, students and indeed all citizens can sleep with their two eyes closed. Now this is on family planning. According to reports, the Nigeria's population grew by 2.6 percent between 2015 and 2020. The country's fertility rate was at 5.2 children per woman, making it the seventh most fertile nation on earth. In a bid to intensify advocacy on the need for family planning, the river state media practitioners for family planning have organized a roundtable discussion with relevant stakeholders to address factors mitigating family planning. They also seek a commitment for sustained service for consumables and commodities. This is a media roundtable on reproductive health and family life planning for adolescent and youth in river state. The State Commissioner for Health, Professor Prince Will Chike, discloses that family planning services protect social development, especially in adolescent age. Professor Chike, who is represented by the Director of Public Health and Disease Control, Golden or Wanda, stresses that sexually active adolescents should embrace family planning. Family planning also takes into consideration fertility. It also enables you to be fertile at the time that you want to be and not be fertile at the time you don't want to be. So you see, when you offer this kind of services to everybody, it destigmatizes it. It takes away the mythologies and the conspiracy theories that people have because you're offering to them what they really need in their productive life. So for a young adolescent, this is an opportunity. This is a service that the government and the people provides for. The state family planning coordinator, Dr Doris Ibanibo, assures residents of continuous sustainability of the program and engagement of stakeholders in the communities of effective awareness. Other stakeholders share their views underneath more advocacy on family planning. A lot has been done on demand generation and we're far, far better than we were some time back and I believe that way as a state, whatever we've achieved so far, it's not something we're going to draw back on. We need to also be specific in terms of assets. When we talk about assets for family planning in our country, 70 for young adults, we need to access it. What does access mean today? Because when we say access, access, there is cost implication in assets because services can be available here but when they don't have money to fund that, they cannot obtain it. Show the first line of action for young people, which is to bridge abstinence. We really can't bypass that. Now, when you have emphasized the importance of abstinence, you might want to drip it down to what we call life planning for donkeys and nudes. Family planning, as a way of life, was instituted by the Holy Quran more than 1,440 years ago. It's a matter of fact. First line in tradition of family planning is that if you cannot afford a wife, the problem is you can abstain from having illegal sexual relationship with women. The theme for the program is sustained family planning, financing for women of reproductive age and young persons service uptake, consumables, commodities and demand creation. Now according to reports, family planning is one of the 10-grade public health achievements of the 20th century. The availability of family planning services allows individuals to achieve deserved birth spacing and family size and contributes to improve health outcomes of infants, children, women and families. A group dedicated to providing care for breast cancer survivors has launched prosthetic breasts and bras for survivors as women who undergo mastatomy find it very difficult to assess bras years. I'll correspond that to how I just say has more on this. For many survivors of breast cancer, wearing the right bra and prostheses can go a long way in helping them heal emotionally and physically. But finding such bras after breast cancer is not always an easy task. Cope came alive for cancer survivors in leaguers at the launch of a collection of prosthetic breast forms and bras specifically designed to meet their needs. The launch was made possible by the Care Organization Public Enlightenment, Cope. Speaking on the essence of this breast care exhibition on prosthetics, chairman of the organization Professor Osato Jihwa Osage says it is to alleviate the suffering cancer survivors go through in order to live a normal life. It started by people wearing the same bra but putting cutting wool and so on on the side. But you may still see a difference, but with the prostheses, when they put it in the bra for you, and you take a frontal photograph or side view, they look as if the two breasts are there. Founder of Cope, Ebon Ola Anazi, advices survivors who do not know about the prosthetic bras. I'd be surprised if they don't know because we've been here for 26 years, it's going 26 years now, and a lot of people come from different states to see us here. Some of them come because they know they can get their prostheses. But we're just officially launching this so that a lot of people, a lot of people can know what we're doing. So what I would say is that breast cancer is not the end of the world. These survivors are happy to be beneficiaries of the prosthetic breast and bras as they express their excitement. So excited because shortly after the surgery, when the wound healed, I found out that it wasn't easy. We normally use a lot of funny things like tissue, even cloth, just to make sure that something is there. But looking around today and we have something like this, I'm so, so happy. I'm more than happy because actually to save my life, I can move anywhere as I like. If I'm going out, when they die anywhere, nobody will know that I have any cancer. The two breasts will be okay. The facility data urges women to always examine their breasts at least once every month because early dictation of breast cancer can be managed. In Gozika or HSE, for Plus TV Africa. Now research has it that for a woman, normalcy is getting her breasts back. And most survivors who did not have access to the bras, yes, are prone to stigmatization, which could lead to psychological problems. Still on breast cancer and on humanitarian angle, all over the world, breast cancer has been identified as the leading cause of mortality from cancers among women. A youth court member currently serving at the Suruliri local government area of Lagos State in a bid to give back to her community, organized a free breast and cervical cancer screening for 300 women in the community. The event was well attended by members of the National Youth Service Court. Details in this report. Getting screening tests regularly may find breasts, cervical and other cancers early when treatment is likely to work best. Breast and cervical cancer screening services are made available to women in the Suruliri local government area with some 300 women as beneficiaries. This initiative is the brainchild of Oni Consola Onwuche Kwa, apparently not without some family support. Her mother explains how essential the program is to women, especially at the grassroots. I'm doing this particular project under NYC, but I actually have an NGO. They are the ones in the purple t-shirts. KFC and the Community Initiative, which was founded in 2017. So this is what we do regularly. Every year we provide free medical services to people and communities. We have done free eye tests, we have done cervical and breast cancer screening and we also give out free welfare items to people. I feel very blessed and honoured to be doing this for NYC because NYC is a very great initiative and program and I'm just blessed to be able to give back to my community and to give back to my country at large. I'm a living testimony of early detection of cervical cancer. Over 10 years ago, I attended this free screening as this and I was discovered to have the first stage of cervical cancer screening. It was discovered and immediately it was taken out through what they call cryotherapy. So for NYC projects, the community development project, he said, mummy, let me extend this to other children. Let them have the opportunity of having their mothers around them as mothers I have mine with me too. A cross-section of the beneficiary has expressed their appreciation. In fact, I must say I'm quite impressed with the NYC, you know, it is copper that has actually gone into this. It is wonderful for a copper to have the time to go all over the place, you know, asking people to come for this, the time that she has spent, you know, are you now, these days, you know, they go after something else. For us who have done this, I give a 20. Cervical and breast cancer are most frequently diagnosed in women between the ages of 35 and 44. With the average age, a diagnosis being 50. Many older women do not realize that the risk of developing cervical cancer is still present as they age. However, these cancers rarely occur in women who have been getting regular tests to screen for cervical cancer before they were 65. Guestures like this, therefore, would go a long way in mitigating this deadly disease. Uchechi Uwehi Daniel reporting for Plostivia Africa. Well, quite a commendable gesture there. The goal of the program is to increase the awareness of women on breast cancer and ultimately reduce mobility and mortality associated with the disease. It's a wrap now, but before we go, let's remind you to follow us at Plostivia Africa on Facebook and Instagram. And to subscribe to our YouTube channel at Plostivia Africa, I'm Jacinta Obuco. Thanks for watching.