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By Nigeria Health Watch | July 16, 2025

Why Investing in Nigerians’ Reproductive Health Fuels Rights, Choice, and Progress

Precious Ajayi and Sheriff Gbadamosi (Lead writers) Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the sixth most populous country globally, with an estimated population of 236.7 million people. With an annual growth rate of 2.52%, the population is projected to double by 2050. According to the 2025 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report, […]

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World Population Day 2019: Is Nigeria in trouble?

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 11, 2019

Thirty years ago, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) established World Population Day, an annual event observed on July 11 every year. The world’s population had hit just over five billion people two years earlier and to commemorate that, World Population Day aimed to raise awareness and to take action on various population issues, such […]

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NGOs advocate for a policy to ban child marriage to enhance girl child education

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 19, 2016

At a World Population Day Commemoration event in Abuja on 14th July, 2016, Professor Oladapo Ladipo, representing Nigerian NGOs (NNGOs), advocated that Nigeria bans early marriage for underage girls. The panel discussion event was organized by the National Population Commission (NPC) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and focused on the 2016 World Population […]

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