As of Nov. 1, 2020, China’s population on the mainland reached 1,411.78 million, 72.06 million persons, or 5.38 percent, more than the country’s population of 1,339.72 million in 2010, according to results of the country’s seventh national census released on May 11. The average annual growth rate of the population on the Chinese mainland over […]
Abuja – The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) on Wednesday criticised the outcome of the recently concluded International Conference on population and Development (ICPD +25) in Nairobi. The bishops at a press conference in Abuja, with the theme; ”Towards Integral Human Development,” stressed that the church stood for life, the natural family of man and […]
AFRICA is the second most populous continent with over one billion people in the world. From records, the greatest number of births in the continent takes place in Nigeria. Infact, a forecast at a point did project that by 2015; one fifth of the continent’s entire births would take place in Nigeria alone, accounting for […]
Barring unforeseen circumstances, the National Population Commission (NPC) is set to conduct the next population census in the year 2020, the commission said on Tuesday. The commission made the disclosure when the Senate Committee on Population and National Identity went on an oversight visit to its headquarters in Abuja. Chairman of the committee, Senator Sulaiman […]
The World Bank has said that economic advances around the world mean that while fewer people live in extreme poverty, almost half the world’s population – 3.4 billion people still struggles to meet basic needs. The World Bank disclosed this on Monday in its biennial Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report, “Piecing Together the Poverty Puzzle.” […]
Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, has expressed concerns about the rapid growth rate of the country’s population, stating that there is need for national moderation plan to avoid population explosion. In a statement issued in Abuja by his special adviser on Media, Akpandem James on Tuesday, Udoma predicted dire consequences […]
The Chairman, National Population Commission (NPC), Eze Duruiheoma San, has appealed to Nigerians to fulfil their civic responsibility by ensuring the proper registration of all births and deaths cases through the Civil Registration and Vital statistics (CVRS) system of the commission. Duruiheoma was speaking at the maiden African Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) day […]
As Nigeria today joins the global community to mark the 2018 World Population Day, indications have emerged that with family planning, unplanned pregnancies which have continued to fuel the country’s population growth could be checked. Going by the testimonies of some women in Lagos State using different family planning methods, the use of contraceptive remains […]
Members of Staff Union of the National Population Commission (NPC) have demanded for the sack of the Director General of the Commission, Dr. Ghaji Bello for incompetence and financial misconduct. The demand was contained in a petition addressed to the President, Muhammadu Buhari and signed by the management staff of the Commission. In the petition […]
The recent figure released by the National Population Commission (NPC), which put Nigeria’s population at 198 million, has lent credence to the need for the country’s leaders to increase investment in family planning. Nigeria is already identified as the country with the most rapidly-expanding population in the world such that by 2050, she could become […]
The country of Poland has urged its citizens guide against negative impact of dwindling population and strive to raise larger family sizes. The move, according to agency report is the new approach taken by the core catholic country in tackling shrinking population. In the report made popular by agency reports, the Polish government encouraged citizens […]
…To create 5million jobs in five years As part of its efforts towards rapid industrial acceleration of the country, the Bank of Industry (BOI) on Wednesday in Lagos entered into partnership with After school Graduate Development Centre (AGDC) and First Bank to empower fresh graduates not only on skills acquisition, but also with start-off loans. […]
Often, crises emanating from one African country have the spiral effect of affecting neighbouring countries. With the sheer geographical size and population of Nigeria, any crisis which overwhelms the country would have severe negative impact on other countries in the continent. No one is oblivious of the humanitarian problems such as the influx of refugees […]