The Nigerian Government on Tuesday said it will soon come out with a policy that will limit the number of children that a mother could have in Nigeria to two.

The country’s Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed disclosed this while responding to questions during an interactive session at the 24th Nigerian Economic Summit holding in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

Ahmed said the Federal Gvernment was working hard on the move, noting that the country’s population had been identified as one of the greatest challenges confronting the successful implementation of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP).

She said traditional rulers and other leaders across the country were currently being engaged as regards the formulation of the policy, adding that the move was aimed at addressing one of the greatest challenges facing the ERPG.

Her words: “We have been engaging traditional rulers and other leaders. Specifically, we have found out that, to be able to address one of the great challenges that we identified in the ERGP which is the growth in our population, we need to engage these institutions.

“And we hope that with their support, we will get to a point where we can come out with the policy that limits the number of children that a mother can have because that is important for sustaining our growth.”