The United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) Assistant Representative in Nigeria, Osaretin Adonri, has said the Nigerian population figures are speculative, projected and not accurate. The country is long overdue for a census, which would dismiss the catalogue of speculative population figures. The 2006 population census conducted puts Nigeria’s population at 140,003,542 while the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) 2012 data estimated Nigeria’s population to be 166.2 million. “Nigeria needs a census for population accuracy and effective planning,” Adonri said. According to the UNFPA 2019 State of the World Population report, Nigeria’s population has increased to 201 million, having grown at average rate of 2.6 per cent from 2010 to 2019. Credit: Financial Nigeria
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Unless you are in Japan in April for the Festival of the Steel Phallus - Shinto Kanamra Matsuri festival with giant and small Penises everywhere,
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The Shinto Kanamra Matsuri is held annually every first Sunday in April.
Come April 7, 2019, Japanese and tens of thousands of tourists from around the world will gather at the Kanayama shrine in Kawasaki, a city in the south of Tokyo to the Penis.
The Penis festival features penis shaped decorations, snacks, candies, festival foods and so on.
Also a parade of giant phalis - Mikoshi.
The festival dated back to 1969. History has it that a demon fell in love with a woman and hid inside her, biting off her lover's penis twice. She then sought help from a blacksmith who made her a metal phallus that broke the demon's teeth and sent him off for good.
The metal phallus was later enshrined in Kanayama shrine for Commemorations till date.
Sex workers would visit the shrine to pray against sexually transmitted disease.
The festival has become something of tourist attraction and used to raise money for HIV research.
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