The Bayelsa State Government is set to hold the first summit on infant and maternal mortality in Yenagoa on Tuesday.
The Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said in a statement on Monday that the Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of the state, in company of his wife Dr. (Mrs). Rachael Dickson, would exploit the opportunity of the event to launch the Safe Motherhood Policy of the Government.
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Iworiso-Markson said that the former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Vice President of Liberia, Mrs. Jewel Howard Taylor, would be the chairman and special guest of honour at the event respectively.
He said that the state government was expecting other very important personalities from outside the country including the former Speaker of the Gambian National Assembly/Deputy Speaker, ECOWAS Parliament, Hon. Fatoumatta Jahumpa Ceesay, at the summit.
He stated further stated that the President of the National Council of Women Society, Mrs. Gloria Labaran Shoda, the Matron of African Women Leadership Organisation, Chief Mrs. Opral Benson, and the Special Adviser, former Speaker of Liberia, Dr. Jophia Nanker Gupar, would deliver goodwill messages at the event.
