Nigeria News News Nigeria » People: Nigeria Population 2026: 242 Million and Its Ethnic Groups
Nigeria population guide: about 242 million people, a median age of 18, the Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo, faith, languages and the diaspora.
News Nigeria » People: Nigeria’s poverty crisis is deepening because reforms are anti-people — Economist
The World Bank last week said about 61 per cent of Nigeria’s population — 139 million people — now live in poverty, rising from 40 per cent, or 81 million people, in 2019. In this interview with News ...
News Nigeria » People: Nigeria: More than 120 people killed since President Tinubu’s inauguration
Responding to the gun violence that has resulted in at least 123 deaths across Nigeria since President Bola Tinubu’s inauguration on 29 May, Isa Sanusi, Amnesty International’s Acting Nigeria Director ...
News Nigeria » People: Nigerian Bishops Tell the Pope: Our People Are Dying
As Christians in their country suffer increased persecution, the Nigerian bishops bring the hopes of a nation to Rome. About half of Nigeria’s bishops visit the tomb of St. Paul after celebrating Mass ...
News Nigeria » People: Nigeria: Ratification of protocol to protect the rights of older people ‘a vital step forward’
Responding to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu approving Nigeria’s ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Rights of Older Persons yesterday, Isa Sanusi, ...
News Nigeria » People: We recruited wrong people to govern Nigeria — Oba Olaitan
Oba Oladipo Olaitan, a lawyer, member of the National Assembly between 1999 and 2003, served as Special Adviser in the Second Republic to the late Governor Lateef Jakande in Lagos State. In this ...