Nigeria currently has an estimated population of 242,431,832 people. Nigeria’s population at independence was 45,053,782. That is about 500 per cent increase since independence. At independence Nigeria was the 14th most populous country in the world. Currently, we are the sixth, surpassed only by India, China, the United States of America, Indonesia and Pakistan. At the rate […] The post Culture, religion and Nigeria’s burgeoning population, by Francis Ewherido appeared first on Vanguard News .