Planting trees is one of Nigeria's prominent climate action strategies ... Nigeria's environmental issues are exacerbated by a combination of rapid population growth, industrial activities ...

Cutting down trees for logging, opening up farmland or to feed energy demand for a growing population is putting pressure on Nigeria's natural forests. President Muhammadu Buhari told a COP15 ...

About 40 percent of the Nigerian population lives below ... the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria launched a campaign that aims to plant 5.5 million trees over the next five years to mitigate ...

Using genomic tracing, researchers from Nigeria, the United States, Cameroon, Ethiopia, and Belgium estimate that the ...

Water researcher Nelson Odume explains what’s responsible for the flooding and what Nigeria should do to ... The rapid population growth combined with urbanisation and poor spatial planning ...

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. This trend is an ...

Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, The Philippines, and Tanzania were identified to account for more than half of the global population estimated around 8 ...

Nigeria's population is on track to hit 377 million people by 2050, highlighting the need for reproductive health services. But cultural and religious barriers often complicate access to ...

That’s what statistics say Nigeria will look like halfway through the century. (The Earth’s population is booming. It might not last—here’s why.) Statistics are crucial for projecting the ...

Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa and the sixth globally, stands at a demographic crossroads. With a population estimated at over 222 million—70% under 30 and a median age of just 18.1 ...

According to UN estimates, Nigeria's total population will double from 200 million to more than 401 million by 2050. If the trend isn't stopped, it will exceed 728 million by 2100.