To enable nursing moms to give their children the best care possible, particularly in terms of exclusively breastfeeding them, the Federal Government may shortly authorize a six-month maternity leave.
The government also urged organizations to make the development of supportive environments for working-class mothers' ability to breastfeed their children a top priority.

It was noticed that exclusively nursing children for six months has many advantages, including preventing illnesses and infections, promoting brain and cognitive development, and promoting child growth.

Hajiya Fatima Umar Bago, the Wife of Governor Niger State, supported the initiative yesterday in Minna. She also argued for a four-week paternity leave for men to help assist their partners after giving birth.

The Federal Ministry of Health's Chief John Uruakpa, Director and Head of Micronutrient Deficiency Control, spoke at the celebration of this year's World Breastfeeding Week in Abuja. John argued that working class and full-time moms should equally be encouraged to nurse their children.

The ceremony's focus is facilitating breastfeeding, making a difference for working parents. "We also want to get the men involved to provide the enabling environment," he stated.

To receive the most benefit from breast milk, he continued, "you must exclusively breastfeed your child for six months. It is, however, not a matter of just breastfeeding."

John pointed out that just 29% of women exclusively breastfeed their children, according to the most recent National Demographic Health Survey (NDHS) from 2018 data.

Up to 90% of Nigerian women are nursing, he continued. Therefore, if you subtract 29%, you would notice that you are adding water at a rate of almost 60%.

"Nigeria will receive up to 90% if we can convince this water-adding sector to cease adding water.

"We urge businesses to create a breastfeeding-friendly environment for our women. Due to this, the government wisely decided to grant a 16-week maternity leave; nevertheless, we are advocating for a six-month leave, which will soon be approved.

Even yet, several jurisdictions have permitted paternity leaves for fathers of up to six months and two weeks. Additionally, the fathers are arguing for an extension of four weeks.

According to Angela Samba, who spoke on behalf of the Breakthrough Action Nigeria Project, which is financed by USAID, "Our project's purpose is to improve the practice of priority health and nutrition behaviors, of which breastfeeding is one, in Nigeria.

 In order to ensure that moms can effectively breastfeed, the workplace has a very important role to play.