NOLLYWOOD actor, Odunlade Adekola, has been named as an ambassador of the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI), an organisation saddled with the promotion family planning services in the country. Speaking during the unveiling of the Nollywood actor last week, the Oyo State chairperson of NURHI, Mrs Stella Akinso, said Adekola is one of the most respected actors in the country today.

“He is just so popular, and people follow his movies with passion, so we are really lucky that he accepted to be our ambassador. “Through his works, he will disseminate the family planning message to his numerous fans. “With Mr Adekola as our ambassador, the family planning message will spread far and wide, and that is what we want at NURHI,” Mrs Akinso said. In his remarks on the occasion, Mr Adekola charged his numerous fans to give family planning a thought, as it is all about planning for their future.

“You know when we want to hold a wedding ceremony in a year’s time, we will start planning it from now; if we can give that time and energy to planning a party, why shouldn’t we then plan our lives? “This is what NURHI is telling us; they are not preventing us from having the number of children we want to have, but that we should just space them for our social, economic and health benefits,” the actor said.

While also speaking on the occasion, the Chairman of Ibadan North Local Government, Honourable Oluyinka Akinbade, thanked the actor for accepting to be NURHI’s ambassador, saying through him, more people will hear about the family planning message, which will then charge their lives for the better.