{"id":1357,"date":"2025-10-04T18:39:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2025-10-04T18:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:50:43","slug":"first-lady-launches-n2-55bn-menstrual-health-initiative-in-imo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=1357","title":{"rendered":"First Lady launches N2.55bn menstrual health initiative in Imo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, on Thursday in Owerri, launched a menstrual health intervention, themed \u201cFlow with Confidence,\u201d under the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the programme is aimed at achieving a one-year supply of sanitary pads to 370,000 schoolgirls in rural communities nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yemi Alade - Tomorrow (Official Music Video)\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G4u2yMsPdG8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The RHI procured the customised disposable sanitary pads, worth N2.5 billion, from a local company, Uniglory Nigeria Ltd., to promote domestic production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the launch in Owerri, the First Lady emphasised that the intervention aimed at ensuring that no girl should miss school because of her inability to afford sanitary products.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs Tinubu, who was represented by the Wife of Imo Governor, Mrs Chioma Uzodinma, said it was unacceptable that girls missed classes due to menstrual issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe programme is critical because girls in rural areas miss school days every month because they cannot afford sanitary pads, leading to them falling behind or dropping out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEach state and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will receive 10,000 packs of the pads for distribution to deserving girls in rural communities, with the goal of supporting their education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe initiative believes that no girl should ever have to choose between her dignity and her education,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs Tinubu, who stressed the link between menstrual health and academic success, said the programme\u2019s success required community ownership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The First Lady specifically appealed to Local Government Area chairmen to take ownership of the intervention to ensure supplies reached the right beneficiaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She stressed that the pads were not to be sold under any circumstances and urged traditional and religious leaders to monitor the distribution exercise in their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The programme launched simultaneously in eight states: Borno, Cross River, Ekiti, Enugu, Gombe, Imo, Kebbi, and Lagos, with other states set to follow upon receiving their supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs Tinubu charged the beneficiaries to stay in school, study hard, support one another, and never allow shame or stigma to take away their confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in a lecture, a Consultant Obstetrician\/Gynaecologist, Dr Emily Akuabia-Nzeribe, said the programme would empower women, enhance environmental sustainability and support vulnerable communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akuabia-Nzeribe, who spoke on menstruation confidence, advised secondary school girls present at the event to maintain healthy hygiene and not be ashamed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She explained that menstruation came with physical, social, economic, and psychological burdens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe physical boarding could come with some health risks and infections, as well as infertility, if not properly managed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor the social burden, it comes with stigmas, discrimination and bullying,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The consultant noted that RHI was more focused on treating the economic burden that came with menstruation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe economic burden of period poverty occurs among many young girls, who cannot go to school because they do not have the appropriate menstrual product to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome of them stay at home because their parents cannot afford the right menstrual products they need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the problem the renewed hope initiative is trying to solve and we must be grateful for that,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NAN reports that the programme was themed: \u201cEmpowering School Girls through Menstrual Health.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2025\/10\/first-lady-launches-n2-55bn-menstrual-health-initiative-in-imo\/\">(Vanguard)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s First Lady, Sen. 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