Critics say the widespread African tradition of giving cash and gifts to a bride’s family before marriage, degrades women by putting a required, monetary value on a wife. In Nigeria, the financial pressure in a recent case tragically ended in suicide
With Nigeria’s population growing at more than 3% a year, Nigerian authorities are offering free family planning methods and advice to Nigerian families in an effort to slow population growth. Nigeria, which already has the most people in Africa, is projected to have more than 400 million people by 2050, double the number of today
Nigeria’s unemployment numbers jumped by nearly 30% this year to 16 million, according to a November report by the National Bureau of Statistics. Ano