The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has estimated that 25,685 babies would be born in Nigeria on New Year.
UNICEF said the figure placed the country’s babies as making up 6.5 percent of the estimated 395,072 babies that would be born on the day globally.
UNICEF noted that within Africa, Nigerian babies would account for almost 40 per cent of all those born in West and Central Africa, and more than 23 per cent of those born in sub-Saharan Africa.
