Journal of Educational System Volume 4, Issue 2, 2020, PP 19-28 ISSN 2637-5877 Journal of Educational System V4 ● I2 ● 2020 19 Review of Health Promotion on Combating Early Marriage in Nigeria Emmanuel A Agege, Ezekiel U. Nwose*, Samuel D Nwajei, John E Moyegbone, Joseph O Odoko, Omatseye A Akuirene, Eunice O Igumbor Novena University, Ogume Nigeria *Corresponding Author: Ezekiel U. Nwose, Medical laboratory scientist, nutritionist and public health epidemiologist in Charles Sturt University Australia; and visiting professor at Novena University Nigeria. INTRODUCTION- HEALTH PROMOTION CONCEPTS THE harmful health effects of early marriage plaguing most of the developing world, especially the Sub-Sahara African countries where Nigeria is prominent in terms of demographic chronology and it is important, health promotion and its inherent challenges must be seriously tackled. Health Promotion is the process of enabling people and communities to increase control over factors that influence their health and improve their involvement in activities intended to enhance individual and community health and well-being [1]. The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health promotion as a process of empowering people to increase control over their health and its determinants through health literacy activities for the community-at-large or for populations at risk of negative health outcomes [2]. This should covers social and environmental interventions that are designed to benefit and protect individual‟s health and quality of life by addressing and preventing the root causes of ill- health, not just focusing on treatment and cure [3]. So, the purpose of health promotion is to positively influence the health behavior of individuals and communities as well as the living and working conditions that influence their health [4] through policy statements to revamp the poor state of health system as well as health care delivery [5] The 2004 health policy by Nigeria was specifically meant to strengthen the national health system such that it will be able to provide effective, efficient, quality, accessible and affordable health services that will improve the health status of Nigerians through the achievement of the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Professor Eyitayo, Nigeria‟s former minister of health said „‟The National Health Policy represent the collective will of the government and people of this ABSTRACT The Alma Ata declaration was aimed at practical, scientific, social, technological and acceptable health care universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their active participation and at a cost they can afford. The paper aims at examining the health promotion system, its three tiers and the landmarks with a decade in Nigeria, with particular reference to the importance of Alma Ata at combating the menace of early marriage. This was a narrative reviews on health promotion in Nigeria, emphasized on how the performance of Alma Ata declaration towards achieving Primary Health Care (PHC) goals in the area of health promotion to prevent maternal and child health issues; literatures were searched to identify and articulate the 10years milestone achievements. Though Health problems in Nigeria were challenging, it was observed that Nigeria is one of the few countries in the developing world that has systematically decentralized the delivery of basic services in health, this helped to avert more than 1.8 million unintended pregnancies proactive family planning efforts, through intensive immunization, the Government totally achieve polio eradication in 2020 from a journey which started 1978. It was observed that for the PHC to be effective and active, the government and all stakeholders in the health sector should adopt a system of equitable distribution of health, resources and services to those in dire need of the services through the provision of cost-effective interventions healthcare plans that strengthens basic health care delivery. Keywords: Early Marriage, Health Literacy, Health Promotion Parental ignorance, Unexpected Pregnancy.