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One Acre Fund Nigeria on Thursday hosted a national ... Over 40% of our population lives below the poverty line, and nearly 20% of children under five suffer from chronic malnutrition (World ...

Nigeria’s population pyramid shows a high dependency ratio of 80 per cent, indicating a surge of young persons dependent on only 20 per cent of the population for support.

The U.N. estimates that countries in sub-Saharan Africa will continue to grow and contribute more than half of the global population by 2050. Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation and currently ...

Yet, Nigeria is special ... the Rotarian Action Group for Population and Development (RFPD). “More than half of the population already lives below the poverty line, while women and children ...

To better understand these factors and what Nigeria can do to fully benefit from the strength of its young population, Adejuwon Soyinka asked Uche Isiugo-Abanihe, Professor of Demography and Dr ...

Nigeria appears to be in what economists call a poverty trap, a vicious circle that takes hardwork and massive investment to break. The population is rising faster than the economy can cater for.

Today is World Population Day, an event observed on July 11 every year since 1989 to raise awareness of global population issues. Nigeria is the ... below the poverty line of $2 a day.

The provisional results of Nigeria's first census in 15 years show that Africa's most populous nation has a population of more than 140m. The National Population Commission said this was an increase ...

To better understand these factors and what Nigeria can do to fully benefit from the strength of its young population, Adejuwon Soyinka asked Uche Isiugo-Abanihe, Professor of Demography and Dr. Funke ...