Tag: population

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Oluwatosin AdeshokanJune 29, 2017

Earth to Nigeria: Your population is officially a crisis | 4 takeaways from latest United Nations data

By the year 2050, Africa will be the most populous place in the world and Nigeria will be the third ...

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AzeezJune 22, 2017

Nigeria’s population to overtake US by 2050 – UN

The United Nations (UN) has said Nigeria’s population is set to overtake the US by 2050. The current population of ...

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Mazi EmekaJune 12, 2016

Monthly allocation: Lagos received N178bn while Ekiti got N50bn in one year (Full List)

In the last one year, the thirty-six states and 774 local government councils in Nigeria shared N2.8 trillion from the ...

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Op-Ed EditorMay 29, 2016

Opinion: Are we thinking about 2050?

By Babatunde Oladosu In Spring 2009, I completed a two-week internship at the London office of Goldman Sachs. I was one ...

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Op-Ed EditorMay 24, 2016

Opinion: Why Nigerian youth must become entepreneurs

by Yusuf Ishaku Goje Presumably, as we are all aware, that unemployment and poverty are two phenomenon that are here ...

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Kolapo OlapojuOctober 7, 2014

Nigeria set to dethrone India as leading exporter of students to UK schools

Kolapo Olapoju Based on recent research compiled by the British Council, Nigeria will soon overtake India to become the second biggest ...

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Op-Ed EditorSeptember 30, 2014

Femi Aribisala: The North can never be more populated than the South

by Femi Aribisala In 2011, more votes were cast in Zamfara than the total number of legitimately-registered voters, according to ...

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June 13, 2014

Tunde Leye: What happens when Nigeria’s oil finishes?

by Tunde Leye And as a result, we have organized ourselves as merely a collection of people bound together by ...

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November 17, 2013

Opinion: Ndigbo and their battle for the soul of Yorubaland

by Francis Ojo Ndigbo is aggressive and determined in pressing their agenda with deliberate focus as they buy up indigenous ...

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November 14, 2013

Pius Adesanmi: In memory of Festus Iyayi – Convoys are “Nigeria’s worst postcolonial tragedy”

by Pius Adesanmi President Obama’s convoy comprises his limo, a decoy limo, one or two media buses and a few ...

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October 23, 2013

Opinion: Nigeria and us, its 170 million gullible people

by Bamidele Ademola-Olateju With Nigerians you just never know, they never stop doing stupid things. Nigeria is a nation of ...

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August 15, 2013

Opinion: Of Ango Abdullahi’s Born to Rule Mentality

by Remi Oyeyemi Of all the above three variables, the South is more favoured than the North. It is only ...

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August 14, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: #TheFutureAfrica – The opportunities and dangers ahead (Y! FrontPage)

by Japheth Omojuwa As we look at #TheFutureAfrica we must bask in the euphoria of where we are compared to ...

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June 30, 2012

Financial Times: Fashola is planning for a Lagos of 40 million people

by Tolu Orekoya The sprawling city-state of Lagos State has been a headache for more than a few governments. Long ...

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May 11, 2012

Report: The Japanese face extinction by next millennium- Read why

Seyi Lawal  Today researchers in Japan released shocking revelations via a population clock that showed Japanese people could theoretically become extinct ...

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April 16, 2012

“Preview of an overcrowded planet” – The New York Times takes on Nigeria’s population growth

by Lekan Olanrewaju You know all that talk about Lagos supposedly being the largest African city in the world and Nigeria ...

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April 4, 2012

YNaija Analysis: When government gets into the marriage bed

    by Tolu Orekoya Listen up Nigeria: we have to stop having so many babies. I know, I know; “family planning” ...

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