Public opinion on the flooding in Mokwa, Nigeria, is marked by empathy for the victims and frustration with the government's preparedness and infrastructure. Many are saddened by the impact on the community, while there is significant criticism of the government's inability to prevent such disasters. There is also blame directed at the release of water from a dam, adding to the devastation, with some expressing hope for international intervention.

Nigerian Government

Local Mokwa Authorities

Dam Management

&gt; The current German government coalition has broken apart, and new parliamentary elections will take place early next year.

If Trump's victory is any indication, AfD might end up winning big next year.

*inhales Hopium labeled 'No way German voters are as dumb as American voters right? RIGHT?!'*

Nazirul_Takashi

How can anyone think lowering consent age to 9 to be ok? Maybe from 18 to 17, ok, but 9???? This is child sexual abuse 😢

Careless_Equipment_3

Better prepare yourselves because the bad days are coming

Ok_Mechanic_6561

Thanks for the compilation, appreciated as always. 

Congratulations on the 150th newsletter! I so much wish for you, myself and all the readers that your work wouldn't be needed, but nevertheless I deeply appreciate your efforts.

Old_galadriell

I think we're at the part where we're nearing terminal velocity. After which we go *splat* on a rock.

Crepuscular_Apricity

What a great summary, as usual!

A local add: I'm in New Jersey, USA, and we've had outbreaks of wildfires for the last couple of weeks. It hasn't rained in more than 30 days, which is a new record. In a 60-day stretch, less than 1 inch of rain fell. Also a record. And it's been very warm through all of October and up until just a few days ago. Wild stuff

8Deer-JaguarClaw

As always, thank you for this. The dedication to keeping us all informed is very appreciated. 

WanderInTheTrees

150 newsletters. You, my friend, need some serious recognition for the fantastic work you've been doing here for an extended amount of time. Knowledge is power, thanks for equipping so many of us

Inner-View3074

Thank you for your work, it sounds morbid but I "look forward" to reading this every Sunday.

Here in Canada, it is believed we have our first human case of bird flu, currently investigations being done as to source, contacts of the teenager that is hospitalized, etc.

[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/first-presumptive-avian-flu-case-in-humans-1.7379630](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/first-presumptive-avian-flu-case-in-humans-1.7379630)

am a well seasoned nurse who worked during COVID, albeit not on ICU but at the time in a medical surgical setting that had scenarios like almost our whole 18 bed ward of patients under isolation precautions and the strain on resources and time that caused, seeing people thrash about distressed from extreme air hunger and literally throw themselves over the bed railing (and die on the floor) etc and ya know what, bird flu would finish me in this career, would be heading on out thank you very much.

We struggled during COVID, human to human transmission would collapse the system, not just health care but so much else, we are too complicated and interconnected as a society in so many ways for our own good. Great Simplification here we come, I guess?

bizzybaker2

Holy fuck, those photos of the Yamuna river. This poor planet... Humans cannot go extinct fast enough. It makes my heart hurt to see nature polluted so badly by our disgusting industries.

teamsaxon

Holy fuck. This one was even worse than last week's. 

Wtf is wrong with people? So little empathy.

MtNak

&gt;"In Amsterdam, [mobs of anti-semites chased down Israeli football fans](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2y33ee1klo), hospitalizing several and injuring more"

Biased reporting. No mention that the Israeli supporters started tearing Palestinian flags from peoples homes and balconies and chanting "death to arabs" and "why is there no school in gaza, because there are no kids left" etc.

[https://jacobin.com/2024/11/maccabi-hooligans-amsterdam-media-gaza](https://jacobin.com/2024/11/maccabi-hooligans-amsterdam-media-gaza)

&gt;**Many spent the last day picking fights with people they saw as Muslim, calling for the collective murder of Arabs, ripping down at least one Palestinian flag from a personal residence on the street, and even protesting a minute of silence for victims of last week’s flooding in Valencia, Spain. This latter incident, in the stadium, was broadcast on live TV; the whole story was amply documented on social media well before many of the most screaming headlines and po-faced political statements.**

&gt;Many journalists thus ignored basic information about what the Israeli fans did in Amsterdam. Perhaps this was because the chanting hooligans actually told a lot of truth about the war on Gaza, which Western governments support and fund.  
One of the more vile slogans chanted by **Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was “There are no schools in Gaza, as there are no children left.”** Proud in its genocidal intent, this line is only half true.

But it isn't surprising if you get your news only from western corporate outlets.

Thestartofending

The description of the violence in Amsterdam left out the tearing down of the palestinisn flag and the israeli tourists chanting death to arabs and mocking the helplesness of them to fight back against overwhelming military superiority.  


Probably more as well, that is what did not get filtered out by our craven news organizations.

hectorxander

&gt;In Amsterdam, [mobs of anti-semites chased down Israeli football fans](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2y33ee1klo), hospitalizing several and injuring more.

Point of order - it was Zionists that started that encounter in the first place, framing it as anti-semitism is Zionist propaganda.

RoyalZeal

I think we should wait for Trump‘s little secret to be exposed. Basic common sense really.   

Just look into all the slip-ups: „We don’t need the votes, I have so many votes.“ Even talking about „instructions“.    

It’s really funny actually, he must have driven Elon mad. 

CleanYourAir

oldsch0olsurvivor

I saw the headline, but not the numbers: Pakistan turned it up to 11 (apologies if this joke was already made elsewhere).

psychotronic_mess

&gt;A study found that “biobased plastic” microfibers are actually more harmful to earthworms than the classic plastics these microfibers replace.

Actually this is not news. Microfibers of all sorts can be ecologically problematic. These biodegradable ones should be dealt with using proper water treatment, of course. And I can see how this paper can be used as "see? plastic is good!"; I assume that OP got it from some source in that framing. 

Fun fact: rubber is also natural, organic. Rubber tire dust is also [terrible for ecology](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389424001596). 

I'm not sure why they only reported LC20 and not LC50 too. 

&gt;The UNDP report said restrictions put in place by the military were “clearly aimed at isolating Rakhine from the rest of the country and exacting ‘collective punishment’ on an already vulnerable population”.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/05/un-security-councils-astonishing-silence-myanmar-atrocities more context

&gt;In Amsterdam, mobs of anti-semites chased down Israeli football fans, hospitalizing several and injuring more.

FALSE. https://www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfConscience/comments/1gmr49w/more_misinformation_re_amsterdam_spread_by/ 

Going to stop reading here. Do more due diligence next time, OP. If you can't, don't put it in the text.

dumnezero

I would say the rural poor in northern Nigeria are objectively poor. The least access to services.

CandidZombie3649

That can't be accurate. Most poverty in Nigeria is concentrated in the far northern states.

NegativeThroat7320

The North is so poor that in some places, you would wonder if you are still in Nigeria

Extreme-Highlight524

This is the real news broadcast right here.

pajamakitten

Summer winds wax dire,

Swollen by the heated sea.

Venus by Tuesday.

Ghostwoods

I'm more afraid of the collapse of capitalism than of the climate and the planet itself. The fight for the last resources will cause so much suffering that even "apocalyptic" isn't the right word to imagine it. 

More death and violence than in any war we have ever read about in history books. If that is over, the world will finally heal I suppose.

Munhugin

This is the first time I’m reading one of these, and damn is this depressing, but thank you for putting it together, I’d rather know the truth than bury my head.

[deleted]

"  A depressing study in PNAS looked at Indonesia, where industrialists have cut down 25% of the nation’s old growth forests in the last 35 years. Yet 44% of the cleared land was left idle for 5+ years. 28% was converted into palm oil plantations, and much of the currently cleared land is expected to be converted into palm oil farms."


I saw videos of Urang Utans trying to attack those giant forest harvester machine literally ripping down their home.. . . If I ever needed an explanation for Asimov's interplanetary highway (I didn't) that would have been it.


We deserve to be extinct and earth will get a new evolution after this

canibal_cabin

On [Nashville gov site](https://www.nashville.gov/departments/water/waste-and-recycling):
&gt; Due to extreme heat, curbside trash and recycling pickup hours are changing from starting at 7 a.m. to now starting at 6 a.m. Starting Monday, July 1, all residents with curbside trash and recycling service should have their carts at the curb the night before collection day.

Jack_Flanders

&gt;Flooding in Assam, India, has [displaced 2M+ people](https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/assam-flood-brahmaputra-level-kaziranga-death-b2574648.html) and killed at least six.

I know I shouldn't be laughing at this but the 'at least six' after TWO MILLION fucking killed me, who is making these estimates lol

AgencyWarm2840

Damn! It must have taken a lot of time and effort to compile this info. 

I appreciate how organized and thorough it is, complete with sources.  

You do an outstanding job of capturing our predicament. 

Thank you for putting this together!

Copacetic_Chaos

shouset

What to do now ?  I think I’ll have some of these shrooms

artbarsa

Thanks for the compilation, appreciated as always.

On July 7, at around 4 p.m., Las Vegas hit 120 degrees setting the all-time high daily temperature, according to NWS. This breaks the previous record of 117 degrees which was hit five times in 2021, 2017, 2013, 2005 and 1942.

DJBombba

Thank you for the compilation. Always my favorite sunday morning read

toomanybrandons

Thank you. I appreciate the confirmation that it's not just in my head.

Green_Octopus3

Can’t forget project 2025 being realized due to the SCOTUS 6-3 decision

&gt;The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is experiencing its worst wildfire season in 21 years, with over 13,400 wildfires having been detected since January. In the Pantanal wetlands and the Cerrado savannah, wildfire records have surpassed old records.

This reminds me of "a family died on a crosswalk today" type news. The family didn't die out of the blue, they were killed by a driver in a truck.  And those rainforests were set on fire by assholes.

&gt;&gt;But he said most of the wildfires were likely not spontaneous, such as being sparked by lightning, but instead caused by human activity—especially the use of agricultural burning.

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&gt;Egypt’s routine load-shedding has turned one year old, and the people are still struggling to adapt. Some parts of the country lose access to electricity and water for 4 hours a day. “Food is spoiling in the fridge, people are getting heatstroke, and no one seems to care,” one Aswan resident said. 

That's *everday collapse*.

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&gt; One of the study’s authors writes, “these observations suggest that even clinically mild infection could have long-term consequences on tissue-based immune homeostasis and potentially result in an active viral reservoir in deeper tissues.” 

People don't usually get how utterly fascinating the immune system is as a system that maintains the integrity of an organism by classifying "own" cells from the rest of cells in existence. It's been called a ["liquid brain"](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0040).

From the early papers on SARS-CoV-2 I remember stuff on how it hides from the immune system and leads to horrid over-reactions (second week of infection). It's almost worth studying for learning strategy and tactics. Basically, it seems like it causes self-destruction, slowly. 

There's this theory that humans, at some point, evolved so much immune defenses that it became a dilemma: immunity comes with allergy; allergy (auto-immune disease) can be deadly. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982215000032  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-021-01058-1  so I wouldn't be surprised to see helminths used for long COVID. 

We're slowly creeping toward an evolutionary dead end road where we either have to lose immunity capability (and survive sick) or we die by our own immune systems. 

As I was just speculating about helminths, I had to look it up, and, sure enough, researchers are looking into this:

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.00905-24 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pim.12982 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10799708/

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&gt;Across the world, economic anxiety is growing, and governments don’t know how to soothe the people’s concerns—or aren’t willing to. What will happen when the masses &amp; corporations accept that you can’t grow indefinitely on a finite planet? 

Socialism (with degrowth) or barbarism.

TechnoYogi

will soon read into these, with my morning tea and tears. cheers, let's beryl through the rest of this year without fear, peak hurricane season's nearly here

DarkWillpower

I like the bold text for the important parts.

Murranji

Thanks for all you do.  I just want to point out something that's misleading.

&gt;  About 500,000 Gazans are in Phase 5 Famine, with another 750,000 in Phase 4.

Incorrect, because these are PROJECTIONS.  There have been multiple articles in the news this week about how the famine in Gaza actually has been vastly overstated.  It's because the report calls is a "risk of famine", assuming that aid is not entering, but news media were reporting it as an actual famine.  The investigations this week into the actual numbers tell a different story.

mk_gecko

Thanks for the report, excellent work as always. I really appreciate the time and energy you put into compiling these reports, they've helped me learn a lot about different things happening that I wasn't even aware of. 

&gt;Concerning bird flu, “the risk to human health remains low,” or so [says the USDA](https://archive.ph/EasY5)

&gt;anyway. That was two days before [another human case](https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/p-0703-4th-human-case-h5.html)in the U.S. was reported to the CDC, a Colorado dairy farm worker. Some dairy workers refuse to test their animals, and the [number of veterinarians](https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/03/bird-flu-outbreak-turns-dairy-veterinarians-into-avian-flu-deputies/) who handle livestock (who are also on the frontline of this pandemic) is far smaller than those who deal with pets. [Moderna is now developing a bird flu vaccine](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51ywpxp43lo) in case the virus mutates to become more transmissible. Australia is experiencing [an egg shortage](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9e9yyx40z9o) because of the bird flu pandemic. And [Uganda is growing concerned](https://www.timesnownews.com/health/uganda-on-high-alert-over-monkeypox-outbreak-in-dr-congo-know-symptoms-and-preventive-measures-article-111537014) about the effects of a contagious strain of **m**~~onkey~~**pox** spilling over from the DRC.

&gt;

&gt;Medscape [reports](https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/cold-flu-virus-can-trigger-long-covid-relapses-2024a1000cau?form=fpf) that old viral infections may resurface in patients suffering from Long COVID. The scientists call it “**viral persistence**” and “**viral reactivation**.” In the United States, [COVID cases are rising](https://archive.ph/eMQ4x) in 44 states, led by the FLiRT and LB.1 variants. Some researchers [believe](https://archive.ph/sspOD) that many Long COVID symptoms are related to inflammation. An [upcoming study](https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/8/24-0145_article) in a medical journal found still-active COVID-19 virus remains in the bones of a human during autopsy.

&gt;

&gt;A [new study](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adk3295) on [T cells](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_cell)(which fight infection) and COVID was published in *Science Translational Medicine* last week. A [summary](https://www.sciencealert.com/covids-hidden-toll-full-body-scans-reveal-long-term-immune-effects) claims that “**abnormal T cell activity** {was bound in full-body scans to be} in the brain stem, spinal cord, bone marrow, nose, throat, some lymph nodes, heart and lung tissue, and the wall of the gut, compared to whole-body scans from before the pandemic.” One of the study’s authors writes, “these observations suggest that even clinically **mild infection could have long-term consequences on tissue-based immune homeostasis** and potentially result in an active viral reservoir in deeper tissues."

A lot of people vastly underestimate how dangerous viruses can be and after society has proven itself almost completely ineffective and incompetent at handling covid, I really, really hope bird flu doesn't start to spread human to human. Millions of people are dead because of covid and millions more have long term health problems that may be permanent because of covid and most governments around the world are barely willing to lift so much as a finger to help anyone personally affected by any of this. In addition, covid is still around and it still causes long covid and other health issues for people, and even though a lot of people are acting like covid is over, there are no proven treatments or cures for long covid so if you live as if covid doesn't exist, you do so at your own peril. I speak from personal experience when I say that many times, if you develop a chronic health condition or you have a chronic health condition that worsens, there's absolutely no guarantee that modern medicine will be able to help you or that other people will have any empathy for you or be willing to help you in any way. So even if it's tempting to pretend covid doesn't exist and just go out and cosplay 2019, doing so has the very real potential to destroy any quality of life you have, possibly forever. Luckily, by staying up to date on covid vaccines, wearing a high quality mask (N95 or equivalent,) in indoor public spaces and in large outdoor crowds, and investing in a good quality HEPA air purifier or an equivalent device to clean the air in your living space (there are several covid related subs that have more information on this sort of stuff,) you can reduce the number of times you get covid and also reduce the likelihood of you spreading covid to anyone else.

See_You_Space_Coyote

PushyTom

Mercuryshottoo

Thank you again for your great compilation- 
I’m still optimistic!

Dry-Specialist-2150

its the most fertile soil wise, from a satellite view it looks clear of heavy forest but reliably green and it sits at the confluence of two major rivers.

its always confused me as to why the area is so much less populated than the other areas of the country which look far less easy to settle.

Ok_Gear_7448

In developing countries, the population tends to migrate to the most populous cities searching for opportunities and a life with basic infrastructure.

In developed or developing countries, agricultural or mineral extraction areas have low population density. Small cities in mountainous regions present geographic limitations for their expansion.

Even so, the city of Lokoja, at the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers, has 700 thousand inhabitants, it is an old city and already existed in the colonial period, with a census in 1917. It is the capital of Kogi state, and the third fastest-growing city in Africa. Due to the surrounding mountainous terrain, the city grows along the Niger River in a southerly direction, which is not visible on the heat map, despite being narrow it occupies a relatively large longitudinal area.

In the central region of Nigeria, lands that no longer have native forests are occupied by large areas of agricultural activity, not to mention that some national parks have areas larger than some states in the country.

I believe that the contrast on the map is exaggerated due to the high population concentrations in some areas of the country:

1. Lagos, a coastal city in the southwest, near Porto-Novo, capital of Benin) with more than 16 million inhabitants;

2. Pentagonal city-complex to the south, stretching from the Niger River to the sea, bordered by Enugu, Abakaliki, Calabar, Port Hartcourt, and Onitsha containing perhaps about 25% or more of Nigeria's total population.

3. Kano to the north with almost 5 million inhabitants with a flatter area, spreads in all directions.

On the contrary, the country's problem lies in the extremely high concentration of people in urban and suburban areas and the green belts around cities.

The country with more than 230 million inhabitants (6th in the world), suffers from poor population distribution and distribution of adequate infrastructure and has one of the highest population densities in Africa - 250/km2 (647/sq mi - 42nd in the world).

To reduce regional differences, and geographic distances and better distribute political power, the city of Abuja in central region was chosen as the capital with almost 2 million inhabitants - at 360 meters above sea level and just 275 km from the sea, it demonstrates the country's rugged terrain.

AxelMoor

It doesn't appear that either the Benue or Niger River are navigable that far north for much of the year, so the geographic value of being at the confluence is diminished.

Pinuzzo

Kano the city where all density is around in the north has been a prominent city since the 11th century and the coastal population concentration is more recent because of the ports and oil making places like Lagos the main city in Nigeria and causing more people to move there for opportunities.

2fortress2

The large population cluster around Kano alway intrigued me. Is the land fertile ? Is there some particular landforms in the region ? Or a historic reasons that pushed humans to live there.

CoffeeBoom

Giorgio_marksman

Nigeria does not irrigate all that much. Irrigation is the reason why riverine areas in many tropical countries are densely populated. Nigeria does not irrigate, so population density in riverine areas resembles the rest of the country.

BOQOR

Epidemics, heat, humidity rainforest isn't the best environment to build stuff. Why do you think that most “great” civilizations in the great lakes area (Africa, if I need to say it), and South America were on mountains and not in the rainforest ?

Embarrassed_Ad1722

I'm happy to see someone else bring this up. Nigeria has not had one reliable census for close to 80 years. they have all been marred with controversy and fraud. Basically, every state governor (&amp; the cabinet) is incentivized to lie in order to get a bigger chunk of the budget.

Another case in point: Lagos. This might not be obvious to you, but if you have ever visited Seoul, South Korea (10 million) or Tokyo (14 million) you will realize what I mean. Both cities are extremely dense, with a forest of high-rise buildings to accommodate the flood of people. In comparison, Lagos is sparsely populated and it's supposed to have 21+ million. LMAO.

Another metric: Nigeria's National identity Number (NIN) has [61 million people](https://nibss-plc.com.ng/bank-verification-numberbvn/) enrolled as of April 2024. Mind you: without NIN you can't have an phone number, so even the extremely poor in Northern Nigeria (or everywhere) must get it.

So, let's work backwards. Let's assume exactly half, i.e., 30 million are women. Let's also say half of these women are married with kids. The remaining half are in universities, not married, etc. And, World Bank says Nigerian mothers birth 5 kids each. The poor have more; rich have few - it balances out.

So, assuming 5 kids each for the 15 million married women, that's 75 million kids. Add their mothers (75 + 15) and that's 90 million. Then add the unmarried women (15 million) and the men (30 million). All that gives us a max population of 135 million total.

And, no, don't tell me about how Islam permits 4 wives. Even in Saudi Arabia, the cradle or Islam, the home of the two Sacred Mosques, out of a population of 36 million, only 500k Saudi men have multiple (i.e., more than 2) wives.

Satellite imagery shows the North is largely empty, with a few urban centers like Maiduguri, Kano, Kaduna, Jos, etc. And healthcare there is very poor so a crazy amount of kids die at birth or in infancy.

In fact if you compare countries with a similar climate in West Africa (Togo, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Liberia, and Chad) they're still not up to Nigeria's population, despite being 5x Nigeria's size put together. So, what's the difference given that humans are usually equally dispersed in places with identical climate? Or are the penises of Nigerian men just unusually effective?

Even officials from the census agencies have threatened to expose the truth before being silenced or bought off.

In all, Nigeria's population is closer to 100M or max. 140 million. 240M is almost double and it's not feasible, even if all you do is fuck.

Ithnasheri

But wow this was a pain in the ass to research most of the information I got was from backtracking through links in the references section of articles. And most of the links lead to full PDF files and 1000+ page documents lol. Google really is becoming a shit search engine

thesonofhermes

teenageIbibioboy

Thank you for this God bless such as educated read. You should be pursuing graduate studies

iamweirdadal411

Someone once pointed out that, countries like Niger and Chad have a lot in common with Northern states in terms of ethnicity, religion and climate, yet, they have only a fraction of the population of the northern states.

cov3rtOps

From 1960 our census was never accurate . We did the first one and the South had a slightly higher number . The North insisted we redo and we redid and they got a higher number. It’s also been geographically proven wetter,more tropical or costal lands have higher population and population density than arid regions so tell me why the South with its coasts and jungles would have less than the North. Except they’re adding the Middle Belt which is very fertile to Northern census, I won’t believe.

Jasonfretson

I don’t know. I think your research is really good. I do think that population of nigeria has grown so well that you can find Nigerians anywhere in the world. Lagos is massively congested. There’s to land to build anymore. They are currently building on water.

Main-Competition869

I thought everyone knew that the population would   top off at around 300 million, which is the population of the US. Getting to a billion people in the next hundred years is laughable. The population numbers are real. The numbers are estimates. Here is comparison I asked Chat GPT to make with similar underdeveloped countries.

“1980 Population (in millions):

	•	Nigeria: 73.7
	•	Brazil: 121.2
	•	Pakistan: 84.2
	•	Bangladesh: 81.8

2024 Population Estimate (in millions):

	•	Nigeria: 223.8
	•	Brazil: 214.3
	•	Pakistan: 240.5
	•	Bangladesh: 172.9

1980 Fertility Rates (births per woman)

	•	Nigeria: ~6.7
	•	Brazil: ~4.4
	•	Pakistan: ~6.6
	•	Bangladesh: ~6.3

2024 Estimated Fertility Rates (births per woman)

	•	Nigeria: ~5.1
	•	Brazil: ~1.6
	•	Pakistan: ~3.4
	•	Bangladesh: ~2.0 “

Idk where in the south where people are having less than 3 kids except the educated. The less you educate the girl child in the north the more kids they have. It’s not a surprise that Niger has the most highest birth rate in the world even if it’s a desert and more sparsely populated. You can argue that the rate at which we are going to grow is overestimated.

femithebutcher

Here's more data . The ECs Global Human settlement has Nigeria as more urban than UN so lower TFR.
Nigeria total built up area is 3439 square miles. Kenya is 1405 . Kenya is 50 million and Nigeria would be 120 million if pop density is similar 
There was also a satellite microcensus that found 160 million by world pop. Same org found on 30 million not 100 million in DRC.
It's not just Africa ..China Russia and even last US census had issues. Also fertility rates have crashed in East and SE Asia as well as Latin America and are lower than US and Europe.

Craftmeat-1000

OP, the last time someone did an official census on the population of Lagos city, the report found that upwards of 25 million people were present in 2015. The most recent census collected gathered the population of it right now to have been closer to 35 million to the point where I even made a post discussing it. No, those stats aren’t off, and the other population stats being pushed by neighbouring countries are well in line with the growth. Even if they suffer from issues with validity, there’s no indication that the population isn’t growing rapidly and will continue to grow undisturbed.

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