Video: Nigerias Population: A Blessing or Curse?
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he therefore advised that irrespective of religious beliefs population be included in the nations political agenda saying that we need to enact policies that will help us manage our population better1 since the news agency of nigeria broke the news that nigerias population has been officially estimated at 198 million as announced by the national population commission npc the subject has been trending especially in relation to what it portends for the nigerian economy1 nan-tvs iyiola pedro captured one of such debate at the vanguard economic discourse held at the civic centre victoria island lagos1 nan reports that the event was chaired by mr. bukar kyari chairman nigeria economic summit group nesg while the panelists included mr. olabode agusto chief executive officer of agusto and co mrs patience oniha director-general debt management office dmo mr muda yusuf director-general lagos chamber of commerce and industry lcci comrade issa aremu vice president global union african region mr opeyemi agbaje chief executive officer rtc advisory services and mr tony okpanachi managing director devel1 filmed1 according to mr bode agusto founder bode agusto1 however while some people believe the newly released figure is as an asset there are those who feel otherwise1 when we got independence in 1960 the population of nigeria was 46 million the united kingdom great britain and northern ireland 52 million 6 million people more than us1 by 2015 the uk moved from 52 to 62 million nigeria moved from 46 to 185 million1 according to the population pyramid by 2070 the uk will be 80 million nigeria will be 552 million1 it means that demand for primary school is going to be much bigger the number of teachers well need will be more vaccines to inoculate will be more number of secondary schools and classrooms1 we need to send them to secondary school keep them healthy and after they leave school we would have to find work for them otherwise they will become what we call in finance non earning assets1 so at the end of the day we measure the wealth of a nation by the number of yams we have produced divided by the number of people who are going to eat it yam per head he said1