The British deputy high commissioner to Nigeria, Laure Beaufils stated this while on a visit to the kwara branch office of the Federation of women lawyers [FIDA] in Ilorin.

She noted that it is an emergency that requires the collaboration of all and called on state governments as well to complement the federal government effort by investing in healthcare services.

Her country, she noted has been providing four hundred million pounds yearly to Nigeria in fighting poverty, improved education and provision of sound healthcare facilities.

On whether the country is ripe for female presidency, she urged womenfolk to aspire stating that it could only happen in near future but not in the year two thousand and nineteen.