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More like sprinkles of milk...

Recessions can last decades but the impact of unrestrained population growth lasts a lifetime!
With the prevailing negative and widely felt economic situation in Nigeria, a harmonized view on the topics of recession and population control seems relevant.
Growing up in Nigeria has offered me a firsthand opportunity of assessing rational and emotional reasons for family size preferences. With cases seemingly equally strong for family sizes siting at both ends of the population spectrum, discussions aimed at addressing this sensitive topic often boil down to battles of emotional preferences. Ranging from infant mortality statistics being an explanation for “insurance oriented” multiple births; a scenario where parents point to the possibility of losing kids as a justification for having more, to the lingering drive for male kids or intra-family gender balance, there is no shortage of excuses. As far flung and arguable as this may appear, I have encountered cases where reliance on well off relatives to help raise one’s kids is the proffered justification. One could go further into the long list of excuses for cases where large family sizes are needed for rural and farming families with labor as the justification for numbers. Well, I think these scenarios would suffice for now.
Which should rationally come first? The chicken or the egg? A rhetorical question for a conundrum might seem an unwise approach, but it helps open the door for opinions on this relevant topic; In the Nigerian case, would moral restraint come before industrialization, would it be the other way around or should we not expect either or both?
Let’s step away from family size arguments for a moment and dip a bit into the pool of knowledge from the 1974 UN population conference in Bucharest, where Karan Singh, a former minister of population in India, illustrated the “the demographic-economic paradox”, an inverse relationship between income and fertility. We can now step further back in time to the late 18th century for the groundbreaking work done by Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus, an English cleric and scholar in his work on “the principle of population” where he laid out his logic for the “Malthusian trap”; a situation where a society’s standard of living is made unsustainable by population growth. He goes on to postulate that the fix for the trap resides in collective moral restraint, but this takes us back to the beginning since we learn from Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs that moral restraint is located at the top two layers of the pyramid; between esteem and self-actualization.
The questions and thoughts put forward here are not intended to suggest that the current Nigeria recession is a direct product of unchecked population as our excesses in spending and inefficiency in management are well known. Add stifling corruption to the weak structural planning, non-existent social welfare structure and the justification is almost sufficient for the current situation. The overriding driver is however the need for a deep, widespread reflection.
With the error margins in our national population estimates possibly out-sizing any of the bottom 55% of nations on the global population ranking, do we really need to keep ignoring the devil in the details? Would less not actually mean more at least at the family level? Should we keep waiting for change in our corrupt rulers and officials or can we at least make efforts to right-size at our family levels for now and the future?

Major dilemma.

seunoni34:
No one is ever too busy for business
Here is my contact : 08169005109
Expecting your call soon

Thanks a lot. Will call by Tuesday.

Cheers man.

seunoni34:
There is no software that can uncover an ATM Card PIN.
What might have happened was that the boss had given him the PIN at a time to help him make withdrawals.

Even if there was a software, what service will it connect to get the pin? Mastercard? Visa? Or where? Even your bank cannot know your pin because it's encrypted right in the card.
And it uses a one-way hash, like md5 (which can only be encrypted on input) and can never be decrypted back.

Moreso if he were to have made an online transaction where only the card CVV2 is required, the online merchant will still send the card owner a confirmation code by SMS of which he doesn't even have the owner's phone at hand.

Again If he's so smart to ever have such software it means he will have a direct connection to a private data storage of Mastercard , Visa and other card providers which in turn means he won't even need to steal cards to get money. !

There are one thousand and one smarter ways to steal electronically without getting caught, he just added that "software" line so everyone will think he's one kind of genius that needs to be explored.

I was driven to your website by the quality of your response above.
Please send me your number to confirm that what you have on the site will get me directly to you.
Expect my call to discuss a web/app development package job if you are not too busy at the moment.


Talk soon.
Keep up the positive mind. Cheers.

Berlyn:
he looks like one of those guys that took my phone from me

Nice pic

bettercreature:
There is nothing special about Lagos,they are stealing lot of cash every day but fortunately the money is just too much,if a goat rule Lagos he will be successful

If I take your logic as valid, it is shocking to see Delta and Rivers state in their current situation.
Read some info from this link for your knowledge. https://www.naij.com/67424.html

GDP inhibitors!!!

"inmate" ke?

I would not use those laptops in EFCC.
Too cheap to buy for such high a risk!

Yes OP, focusing on broadening the sector contributions to real GDP and building capacity for large scale empowerment is the winning focus.
Infrastructure, education, power supply, affordable healthcare, favorable import/export policies and the free market forces will place the exchange where it should truly be. Then, unleash alternative Forex sources from government supported agro export, solid minerals sector development, coal mining and export/usage, iron ore and smelting resurrection etc
What we are currently experiencing isn't the most creative or resolute steps to fixing the economy. Just an indirect way of accepting defeat to the fixed exchange pipe dream.

EgunMogaji:
Common actually.

I know of one such deal in the same local government.

I said strange as in "odd".
Overall, my real concern is about the value positioning and perception of the person asking for "cars" in exchange for one the most entrenched assets. There is so much to be worried about with such an orientation. I doubt you could fully secure ownership of that land against such a mindset.

Strange proposition.

FCMB please do the needful.
Naija banks taking every opportunity to pilfer.

Fedayeen02:
He is condemning after days that it happened. Imagine what Obama will do in the next nano seconds if it happens there.

He would visit the site, cry, talk about his upbringing and plead with the house to place more stringent measures on arms control. Not much else.

My candid opinion is that it seems you really did not know what to expect in marriage especially the hormonal imbalance our wives can face during pregnancy. I do understand that the process is tough for men but it is temporary. If you find it hard to handle 9 months, you would find it even harder handling life in marriage.

You should know your view point is selfish, immature and irresponsible.
If you find your wife passionately hugging a male friend from bottled up loneliness, please don't kill her. Just tell her you were never really ready.

Interesting

Please without taking this as a joke, gather the evidence and sue the school.
If you go to the school to inflict physical harm on the teachers, you spoil the case.
If you sue the school, the teachers will be fired and they would most likely be prohibited from teaching in addition to possible jail time.

Mr Eze......Mr Mpki,

You should really be ashamed.

Smartsyn:
GEJ met same problem as much as Buhari did, the only difference is that he didn't take the nation hostage because of it..

Why would he when he had our funds to take hostage?

Shallow!!!

Why reveal her identity?

"It was gathered that the aunt on April 26 around 9pm sent Esther on an errand and she was returning home when the suspect waylaid her."

Poor judgement!!

Category1:
[size=13pt]i'm so angry that LAGOS wasn't a well planned city.
before the creation of Lagos, all these stuffs should have been jotted down...so pple ain't going to build houses illegally, and now that the Lagos state government is planning to demolish a whole 800 Houses(no be beans now) to make pple poor and homeless?

Haba!. Ambode needs to forget that bridge abeg, 800 houses ke?
How can the poor be getting poorer? This ain't possible. [/size]

I comprehend your frustration and see it from a good point. I would however help to clarify a few points. Lagos state does in fact have a master plan which has existed since the 70s with many recent reviews and improvements in design.
What has been in short supply is the political will to enforce it as well as the selflessness to sustain it.
Check the picture insert and the links below.
Orange island and Gracefield phoenix being dredged today have been mapped out for years waiting for developers.
People should also take responsibility for where they build and how they build. The town planning office is there to go ask a few simple questions and is reachable with less than 4000 Naira from anywhere in Lagos.

http://www.nleworks.com/case/4th-mainland-bridge-masterplan/
http://www.ccrail.ca/index.php/consulting-projects (cntl f for Lagos state, Nigeria)
http://dar.dargroup.com/ProjectsListing/A-Z/B (check in B listing for Badagry masterplan)
http://dar.dargroup.com/Projects/Badagry-Master-Plan (Open image gallery at the bottom and slide through)

That is certainly not a vulture.

Remii:
do more or word usage and correct spelling, slut and slot not same.

Muphry's law
https://www.google.dz/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj--vWqm6TMAhVM2hoKHVfUDiwQFggaMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMuphry%27s_law&usg=AFQjCNHSfhOoFPxu0i6_bYRmu7GfAcfBkQ&bvm=bv.119745492,d.bGs

Safe following distance.

I have personally gone to their sites while taking a tour with two friends who were making decisions regarding buying or building in Lagos. This was back in 2014. We all concluded that the houses were built with cost saving and profit maximization as the primary focus. One of use went ahead to buy while the other two of us decided to steer clear.
If you would have to carry out retrofitting (plumbing corrections, structural amendments, electrical rewiring etc) after buying a house, you should really exercise some caution.
One has to be certain about structural integrity before moving their family into any building higher than 1 floor in Nigeria, unless built with name stamps of seasoned construction experts. Lekki Gardens is not in that league.

To even think they had a promo of buy 3 get 1 free (or so) on Chevron drive beats my imagination!

Refreshing!!!

Her gown and smile are adorable.
Happy married life.

Please is there any Nairalander who can help ENSURE this get's to the appropriate authorities?
We should be able to do our part to halt this madness in our country. Thanks to Seun and the like for such powerful mediums like Nairaland.
Let's not assume that putting it up here means anything is done. If you can, help. One mad cop at a time, one corrupt leader at a time and we could possibly drive the change we desire.
I am so infuriated.....I honestly wish I could do more. This is madness for sure!