I remember years ago reading that the Nigerian government was giving out contraceptives freely. They see population growth as a threat and not as a strength, typical of governments in the third-world.

This would have been under the previous PDP government of Goodluck Johnathan, sometimes referred to as the 'conservatives'. They dominate the southern part of Nigeria because party politics is essentially a front for ethnic interests. You vote as your ethnic group does. Since then, that government has been replaced by the APC government of Muhammadu Buhari, i.e. the 'progressives'. They dominate the northern (Islamic) part of Nigeria for the same reasons. It is better just to ignore the labels and see them both as ruthlessly corrupt and non-ideological. APC accepted plenty of PDP defectors when they finally came to power and many of those on the losing side wanted to jump ship.

The APC is also a feministic party. As can be plainly seen looking at parts of their manifesto: https://apc.com.ng/manifesto/#1545660160799-a6033305-20dd

Examples "... will put place measures that will ensure active participating of women in politics" "Combat illiteracy among women by providing functional literacy and adult education programmes in local languages" "Make efforts so that women occupy up to 30% in party structures and government."

Nigeria also has practically no economy outside of oil exportation (75% of GDP last I checked). Some sources claim that internet scamming is the second highest source of income, comparable to foreign aid, which is the official second highest. So, the country produces nothing notable, and as oil consumption is being curbed because the predominant left-liberal global ideology increasingly sees it as problematic, the country risks losing its only major income source in the same way that Angola, Saudi Arabia and a whole bunch of other countries do.

It is unfortunate that oil has survived for as long as it has in this regard. By propping up third-world economies, it has contributed heavily to the issue of global overpopulation and thus indirectly drives the migration crises. But continued use of oil is simply unsustainable. The fact that so many Nigerians openly call for a military coup to remove Buhari is but one of many examples of how desperate things are becoming. The recent coup in Mali also met wide public support for the same reasons.