Nigeria: Nigeria Has 7m Orphans -FG

This Day (Lagos)
1 February 2008
Posted to the web 1 February 2008

Lagos

The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajia Saudatu Usman Bungudu has revealed that there are about seven million orphans in Nigeria, with the loss of parents through HIV/AIDS accounting for more than 25 percent of the orphans.

She expressed fears that with the estimated 10-year leg between infection and death, the numbers of orphans would continue to remain high even with declining HIV prevalence rates and said this called for concerted action to address the attendant challenges.

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Actually, according to UNICEF, there are now 8.6 million Orphans in Nigeria. This is up from the 7 million reported in 2003.