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As of 27 May 2022, Lagos had the largest number of Covid-19 cases with 99,466 lab-confirmed cases. ...

As of 2021, some 20% of girls and women aged 15 to 49 years have undergone female genital mutilation, according to Unicef data. ...

In 2020, some 12,075 Nigerian women were diagnosed with cervical cancer, and 7,968 died from the disease. ...

Nigeria has fewer than 300 psychiatrists for a population of more than 200 million. ...

The World Bank’s Human Capital Index measures “the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18”. It expresses this as a value between zero and one. An economy in which the average worker achieves both full health and full education potential will score a...

No, a group of researchers held a press conference to announce that they had developed a potential vaccine candidate. It will take months to determine if it’s effective. More: No, Nigeria hasn’t found Covid-19 vaccine yet – but hunt is on ...

Epidemic-prone diseases that are endemic in Nigeria are: cholera, measles, meningococcal meningitis, viral haemorrhagic fever (Lassa fever, dengue) and yellow fever. Related: FACTSHEET: What’s behind frequent yellow fever outbreaks in Nigeria? FACTSHEET: The ins & outs of deadl...

Adults with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 kg/m2 or higher are considered to be obese. An estimated 8.9% of adults (18+) in Nigeria were obese in 2016. Based on this internationally comparable rate, Nigeria was ranked 109 out of 143 rankings. (Because countries with the same rate are ranked jointl...

An estimated 14.4% of Nigerians aged 15 to 64 (14.3 million people) had used at least one drug at least once in 2017. This excludes alcohol and tobacco use.More: How many Nigerians use drugs?...