Nigeria: The Country Now Home to 167m People

1 November 2011

BABY Gabriel, born at midnight at Gwarinpa General Hospital Abuja, officially makes Nigeria's population of 167 million as the world celebrates Day of Seven Billion People on Monday.

The father of the boy, Mr Ibu Simon, who hails from Cross River, named the child immediately after his delivery by Rose, his wife.

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