Alarm bells ring as teenage pregnancy rates soar In 2022, the Federal Government paying scant attention to a health and social menace that has life-altering effects, directed the removal of sex education from the Basic Education Curriculum (BEC). The latest edition of the National Health and Demography Survey (NDHS) 2023-24, which shows that approximately 15 per cent of young Nigerian women aged 15-19 have experienced unwanted pregnancy, indicates that the move by the government is laden with more peril than a promise. ENO-ABASI SUNDAY writes that fears are rife that the absence...