Blue3k:
Its weird he mentions everything except the contraceptives, female education and tax incentives to reduce population growth. The population growth rate along side rising unemployment rate is scary. The government has to tackle both immediately with combo of economic reforms and social engineering similar to Singapore not China.




Logically the agricultural sector isnt going to employ more people as a percentage as productivity rise. The main growth in sector is food processing. I'd suggest going towards manufacturing and mining as simple solution.

alezzy13:
We need to declare a state of emergency on the population problem. It is simply out of control.

Goodness me. Look at those almaijiri boys for instance no education, no training, nothing. Now imagine them 20 years from now. Time bomb doesn't begin to describe what could befall us.

All these talk about poverty reduction without tackling the root cause - TOO MANY POOR PEOPLE BEARING TOO MANY CHILDREN!!!!!- - is to play the ostrich. Our GDP growth simply cannot keep up the

Yes it's a sensitive subject, I know. But the earlier the govt takes firm decisive action on this issue, the better

The outgoing Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Abdul’aziz Yari, has said the increasing rate of unproductive population in the country constitutes a time bomb and must be addressed.

Mr Yari, who is also the outgoing governor of Zamfara, stated this during the valedictory session of the National Economic Council (NEC) held at the State House, Abuja, on Thursday.

The governor who said: “We are sitting on a time bomb,” stressed the need for urgent actions against the increase in the number of unproductive population in the country.

He, therefore, urged the federal government to expand the economy by way of spending more on the nation’s agricultural sector to check the menace of youth redundancy in the country.

“I will say, yes, government has done tremendously well in terms of expanding the economy through agriculture by spending over N200 billion through the anchor borrower programme but we need to do more because we all agree that agriculture is the mainstay of this economy.

“It provides over 80 per cent of the employment. So, if two trillion naira can be spent yearly on oil development we need to increase our spending on agriculture too.

“With what we are seeing as governors especially from the zone where I come from, the rate of population growth, if nothing is done to address it, I am afraid Mr Chairman, we are sitting on a time bomb. And that’s the truth.

“Mr Chairman, we have a very gigantic job and we have to start now. If other associations are doing nothing, we have to lay a foundation otherwise in the next 10 to 15 years if we did not plan properly, we will be faced with a serious problem.

“I think even Niger Republic that is not up to the size of Kano State, they have their plan on the population; they know the number of people they have, the dead, new born and all. Mr Chairman, if Nigeria must move forward we must expand our economy,’’ he said.

On ways to boost the nation’s revenue base, Mr Yari said that “proactive measures must be taken to ensure that some laws are repealed most especially the ones that have to do with NNPC, the issue of Offshore, Royalties Payment and other issues.”

He advised that revenue generating agencies of the government should be given targets, saying “with my experience from 2011 to date I think we are just giving them free hand.

“We need to give them a kind of target, even the NNPC itself. What the NNPC is spending especially when it comes to the issue of cash call, it’s in trillions but what comes into the basket for two hundred million people to share is very meager.”

Mr Yari, who officially introduced the Chairman-elect of the forum, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, thanked his colleagues for giving him the opportunity to serve them in the last four years.

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, who spoke on behalf of governors from the South-west at the event, described members of the council as the set of governors that the subsequent council should emulate, because of their team spirit.

He noted that they were able to talk freely and express themselves, without actually considering whether somebody was PDP or APC, saying their common objectives was the economic issues that pervaded the whole country.

He said: “Considering the fact that we all came in when we had a backlog of salaries, I want to congratulate us because when we came in almost about 27 states could not pay salaries.

“And then, two subsequent meetings led to Mr president giving us the intervention which also led to the clearing of the backlog.

“So, we like to say a big thank you to the president and vice-president for taking us through that resession.’’

Outgoing Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo, who also spoke on behalf of South-east governors , commended President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for their passion and love for the country.

Mr Okorocha, who lamented that he would be missing his colleagues, threw the venue of the meeting into loud laughter when he jokingly advised Mr Osinbajo to always distance himself from Adams Oshiomhole and Nasir El-Rufai.

Mr Oshiomhole is the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) while Mr El-Rufai is the current governor and governor-elect of Kaduna State.

Mr Okorocha, who is believed to have `political misunderstanding’ with Oshiohmole jokingly said: “I feel like a member of the family when I look at my left and right, even the worst of them like the Oshiohmoles and El-Rufais even within this I still feel like member of the family.

“This people I mention, Mr chairman (Osinbajo) I do not know why you share one thing in common with them. May I request you henceforth to distance yourself from them.

“I will miss this chamber really and I don’t know where I will meet people like El-Rufai again to talk to.

“All my colleagues especially the outgoing ones have contributed a lot today to what we have as Nigeria.’’

The governor also advised the council to set targets for state governors so as to encourage performance in states.

(NAN)


Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/331371-population-growth-nigeria-sitting-on-time-bomb-governor-yari.html

bastardmod:
Blame the useless prophet of the religion of piss for encouraging many wives and uncountable children just for the sake of competing with the other enlightened religion.

Useless pigs slamming their heads everywhere without sense. You bastards need your useless born throway children to terrorize the country, that's why you keep proliferating without plan...

Bastards. Thunder fire the useless religion of piss and shit
God punish your generations... Useless terrorists

Redman44:
A high population can be turned to an advantage by leaders with a strong vision for industry and development. We are not even up to 300 Million yet. Indonesia is 270 Million and the country is doing fine. When you have visionary leaders in government, Population will become a tool for development and growth of the GDP. China's factories are serviced with the huge population of the country. With enough hands to work and places to work provided for them, the country will grow steadily on a yearly basis.

Racoon:
Abeg what kind of weed do these so called northern leaders/elites smoke Emir SLS raised a similar observation some years back but they persecuted him till point of disposing him from the throne.

Meanwhile, the core north is the region that sadly contributed to this ugly & fearful menace.How will scourge like BH, Fulani terrorism, banditary etc end when an 18years fella will marry 4wives and give birth to unproductive population as potential terrorists?

Johnnyessence:
Yari is one of the clueless governor Nigeria will ever have. Nigeria population is growing faster and you that ought to cater for the education sector of your state, you are no where to be found. so so pathetic. EFCC should please investigate Yari after handing over to the pdp governor elect. repositioning education sector and adopt good economic policies, then you will see how our population will help our course.

Blue3k:
Its weird he mentions everything except the contraceptives, female education and tax incentives to reduce population growth. The population growth rate along side rising unemployment rate is scary. The government has to tackle both immediately with combo of economic reforms and social engineering similar to Singapore not China.




Logically the agricultural sector isnt going to employ more people as a percentage as productivity rise. The main growth in sector is food processing. I'd suggest going towards manufacturing and mining as simple solution.

Redman44:
A high population can be turned to an advantage by leaders with a strong vision for industry and development. We are not even up to 300 Million yet. Indonesia is 270 Million and the country is doing fine. When you have visionary leaders in government, Population will become a tool for development and growth of the GDP. China's factories are serviced with the huge population of the country. With enough hands to work and places to work provided for them, the country will grow steadily on a yearly basis.

Obi1kenobi:


Southern Nigeria's fertility rate is not significantly different from the North. It's a general problem to be addressed. Nigerians breed like rats.