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Title: Stop gas flaring to save 95,000 women’s lives, says Women Minister
Post by: clowntom on February 25, 2016, 07:00:39 PM
Stop gas flaring to save 95,000 women’s lives, says Women Minister

ABUJA - The Minister of women Affairs and Social Development, Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan has called on the Ministry of Petroleum Resources to accelerate plans to stop gas flaring so it could be conserved for domestic use. The women minister lamented that statistics provided by donor parties have shown that about 95,300 women die annually in Nigeria from smoke alone, while others suffer various health complications.


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