There is something I think about sometimes that worries me. I decided to put it down here so the experts in the house can tell us if it is something to worry about or not.

Presently we are told that the population of Nigeria is 170 million. We all know that this figure is not static and increases rapidly. Right now, Nigeria has not arrived at the promised land. In fact, the nation is still far from it. The truth as it stands now is that development and progress is still very slow, and it appears that the population is rising faster than the country is progressing. At 170 million, poverty and unemployment is a major issue. Soon this population will increase to 300 million if left unchecked, and as things are going now I doubt if Nigeria would progress far enough to accommodate the extra human beings on Nigerian soil. If survival is tough at N170 million, how tough will it be at 300 million? If our population gets to 300 million without any progress in living conditions then we are sure to face two major disasters as follows:

1. Corruption will increase ten folds cos everyone would be trying so hard to survive the very stiff competition.
2. Crime and deaths will increase so high cos the sitution will turn out to be a do or die for many of those at the bottom that the country cannot cater for via employment.

Considering all stated above, do we have anything to worry about?

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OP, I have just 1 question 4 u, pls what do U want us to do now?

Should we go about in mass killing 2 reduce d population or wat?

Problems of Nigeria has never been the population but specifically bad leaderships. China as an example can times the population of Nigeria 10x and yet thier economy is improving rapidly. Even if Nigeria's population becomes 300million next year, if good governance and proper utility of man-power is judiciously made use of, then we would have nothing to worry about. But in a situation where politicians believe by thier getting to power automatically means fending for themselvs & thier immediate family members while they siphon d rest to thier personal accounts abroad, then ur observation is as true as the postulation of a french renowned biologist (forget his name) who made assertion about evolution, the causes and its effect.

Everything is under the hands of d oga @ the top. So many youths have enterpreneurial ideas that could giv them lucrative returns & remove them from job seekers, but wen they cant raise the needed start up capital demselvs and govt does not extend a supporting hand,what happens then?

OP go and see a dentist

RedBenson: Problems of Nigeria has never been the population but specifically bad leaderships. China as an example can times the population of Nigeria 10x and yet thier economy is improving rapidly. Even if Nigeria's population becomes 300million next year, if good governance and proper utility of man-power is judiciously made use of, then we would have nothing to worry about. But in a situation where politicians believe by thier getting to power automatically means fending for themselvs & thier immediate family members while they siphon d rest to thier personal accounts abroad, then ur observation is as true as the postulation of a french renowned biologist (forget his name) who made assertion about evolution, the causes and its effect.

Everything is under the hands of d oga @ the top. So many youths have enterpreneurial ideas that could giv them lucrative returns & remove them from job seekers, but wen they cant raise the needed start up capital demselvs and govt does not extend a supporting hand,what happens then?

Nigeria is not China and will never be China. Why should you cite an example with China? China is trying to reduce her population. Should Nigeria allow her population to rise out of control before realizing it is a problem? Why not start now to work on the population and prevent it from increasing out of hand rather than allowing it to increase and then trying to decrease it.

@blackteeth, u are justifying the fact that we are inept at dealing with population increase.
look@ india for a minute and see how they revel and coping with that population of over 1.3 bil.
in any case Nigeria is not even 150 mil. fact.
in my candid opinion nigeria real population is in the region of 100 mil.

ode remo: @blackteeth, u are justifying the fact that we are inept at dealing with population increase.
look@ india for a minute and see how they revel and coping with that population of over 1.3 bil.
in any case Nigeria is not even 150 mil. fact.
in my candid opinion nigeria real population is in the region of 100 mil.

So because India and China have popuations over 1 billion therefore we should relax and allow ours to climb when our government is less effective than those of India and China?

@oga blackteeth, of course Nigeria is not China and China is not Nigeria and the two can never be like each other in some rare cases. But then, China do not complain abt their population because they've effective management of the population especially at job creation. At such population, the rate of unemployment there is not as high as Nigeria who's far below them. If they are embarking on population reduction, it's just what they desire to do as regards to the world influence and not because it's too much for thier management. Till tomorrow, i still believe that the problem of Nigeria is not the population, it's the poor leadership and mismanagement of available resources.

Btw, shld to stop bearing children cos we dont want Nigeria's polulation to keep increasing or what do u want us to do?