Here’s a startling fact: Nobody knows how many people live in Nigeria.

The entire world community takes the statistics issued by the United Nations Population Division essentially at face value. What we aren’t really told is that even the UNPD can hardly pinpoint the current and future population of Nigeria with any accuracy. This is due to the fact that the underlying data on the ground are so suspect and erratic

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