Nigerian government rejects Reuters report on abortion program

[December 12, 2022]  ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian government rejects a Reuters report published last week about a secret program of abortions run by the military in the country's northeast, Information Minister Lai Mohammed said on Monday. 

Fati, a Nigerian woman who told Reuters she received an abortion under a secret program run by the Nigerian military, poses for a portrait in an undisclosed location in Nigeria, October 14, 2021. REUTERS/Paul Carsten

"The Federal Government hereby categorically states that there is no 'secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme' being run by our military in the Northeast or anywhere across the country," he said in opening remarks at a public event in Abuja.

(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by James Macharia Chege and Hugh Lawson)

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