The study investigated the impact of a mother tongue on the learning abilities of pre-school children in one of the states in Nigeria, the nation of over 200 ethnic groups and more than 400 native languages.
This is why in a nation of over 122 million people, there was only one murder with a gun for 2016.
He also expressed amazement that America, "a nation of over-reactors to everything," has been so reluctant to deal with such a real epidemic.
For the chronically poor nation of over 1 billion people, the news is welcome.
In a nation of over 1.3 billion people and 56 ethnicities, what does it mean to be "Chinese"?
In a nation of over 200 million eligible voters, technology is allowing campaigns to finally see through the fog of the crowd and engage voters one by one.
So he gets a relatively modest 1.3 million viewers, in a nation of over 300 million, on TV, but internet viewers magnify his reach exponentially.
Here in Sierra Leone, the health minister, Zainab Bangura, says her country needs 54 gynecologists but has only 4. Likewise, she says, there are only two pediatricians in a nation of over five million people.
Some of the vast pile of cash, perhaps $5 billion to $8 billion, has been spent on so-far unfruitful efforts to upgrade Nigeria's feeble power output, which remains no better than that of a mid-size American city for a nation of over 150 million people, Africa's most populous.
For a sense of just how broad is the pressure for change in this nation of over 1.3 billion people as it experiences fast-paced social change as well as high economic growth, a leading women's rights group, the Beijing Zhongze Women's Legal Counseling and Service Center, issued half a dozen documents highlighting key issues it hopes will be discussed at the meeting.
