The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
The death of National Population Commission Chairman, Dr Aminu Yusuf Talban Wushishi, on Friday has come at a particularly sensitive point for Nigeria’s population data system, barely eight months after he assumed office and weeks after the commission expanded nationwide digital registration of births and deaths. Yusuf, who was born on April 15, 1960, in…
More than 3.5 million children across six South-West states and Edo State remain unregistered at birth, leaving them without official legal identity. The United Nations Children’s Fund issued the warning during an advocacy dialogue on civil registration alongside the National Population Commission. Celine Lafoucriere, chief of the UNICEF Lagos Field Office, revealed that millions of…
Millions of Nigerians who have spent years chasing paper trails for a document as basic as a birth certificate now have a digital route, following the full rollout of the National Population Commission’s electronic civil registration platform. The commission’s chairman, Dr Aminu Yusuf, announced at a press briefing in Abuja that the VitalReg platform,…
Nigeria has once again emerged as Africa’s most populous nation, with its population estimated at 242.4 million in 2026, a figure that cements its demographic dominance on the continent even as the country marks nearly two decades without an official headcount. The estimate, published by Worldometer and drawn from the United Nations Population Division’s…