PE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> And Nigeria Population In 1980 Compared To Now - Politics (2) - Nigeria NewStats: 3,262,096 , 8,176,062 topics. Date: Saturday, 31 May 2025 at 06:57 PM And Nigeria Population In 1980 Compared To Now - Politics (2) - Nairaland And Nigeria Population In 1980 Compared To Now (64646 Views) (4) Go Down) Christistruth03: 7:55am On Jul 12, 2023 uvie66: ... but the land mass of the US and China is far bigger than Nigeria. I thought about this One and decided that at some Stage Africans will re Green the Sahara desert and resettle it The Technology and Science to do so is available China is doing it LeeSantos(m): 7:56am On Jul 12, 2023 200million is even an estimate and not the actual number. The next population count should be over 300million already 3 Likes Johans2023: 7:56am On Jul 12, 2023 Nigeria problem is greediness not population. One Nigerian will use 50 billion naira to build a house,he is not staying in the house nor rent it out. He only put one Baba to be guiding the house for 10k salary. Imagine how many people you will employ if you invest that 50 billion in a particular business. Some idiots have houses in every state of this country and it not rented imagine if you use that money for business. One person is stealing over 200 billions from a government agency. For Christ sake how will that agency survive. I know of a governor that has more than 200 cars and he is not using those cars for business. One person in Lagos is collecting more than 50% of Lagos revenue since 1999 while Lagos is having more than 15 million people. Only one man use 2 two bullion vans to convey money to buy votes. For Christ sake what else if not greediness and corruption. 28 Likes 3 Shares aremubabs: 7:57am On Jul 12, 2023 And the sad thing is that our population is predicted to almost double itself in 2050 to 400 million. For a country which is not productive, an explosive population is a recipe for disaster. 9 Likes 1 Share mrvitalis(m): 8:00am On Jul 12, 2023 uvie66: my own family have on average there children, how many is yours ? We are still a young family Don't even know how to measure it but that's not a every quantifiable method to record U take a well defined quantity we can measure that's finte Like percentage of Nigerians that drive a car Or number of graduates... The guess their percentage and extrapolate RenaissanceGuy: 8:01am On Jul 12, 2023 Tunechi5: honestly ,dont think population is our problem ,what nigeria needs is a good leader, more population more manpower, US is prime example ,other than population what do they have? US doesn't have anything aside population?? US that's the centre of world's technology and manufacturing has nothing?? lexy2014: How is population Nigeria's biggest problem? Is Nigeria the most populous country in d world? What kind of reasoning is this? Do you have to be the poorest person in your town before you say 'enough is enough'?? 19 Likes 1 Share aremubabs: 8:07am On Jul 12, 2023 Johans2023: Nigeria problem is greediness not population. One Nigerian will use 50 billion naira to build a house,he is not staying in the house nor rent it out. He only put one Baba to be guiding the house for 10k salary. Imagine how many people you will employ if you invest that 50 billion in a particular business. Some idiots have houses in every state of this country and it not rented imagine if you use that money for business. One person is stealing over 200 billions from a government agency. For Christ sake how will that agency survive. I know of a governor that has more than 200 cars and he is not using those cars for business. One person in Lagos is collecting more than 50% of Lagos revenue since 1999 while Lagos is having more than 15 million people. Only one man use 2 two bullion vans to convey money to buy votes. For Christ sake what else if not greediness and corruption. Do you have proof that one man earns 50% of Lagos revenue? The only thing I agree with you about is that of excess greed and selfishness. In South Africa, if a community has a billionaire, you will feel his impact on that community even if he doesn't live there all the time. Community service is prioritized there. But in Nigeria, you might see a muddy road leading to a community which has two or more billionaires. For example, the road leading to Peter Obi's village. We have more billionaires than any other African countries, but our billionaires are only concerned about their own family, and the ones who are showing concern for their community or kinsmen are those preparing to go into politics. But all this does not mean that population is not also a major problem. Because we don't produce much, we are unable to sufficiently feed our teeming population. Demand is way higher than food supply, and this creates demand-pull inflation. Also because we import far more than we export, factoring in raw material and import cost into our goods, we create cost-pull inflation for ourselves. We also don't gave good managers of resources like we had in the person of Obafemi Awolowo who saw to it that Nigeria fought the Biafran war for 30 months without borrowing a single penny. 15 Likes Padipadi: 8:07am On Jul 12, 2023 mrvitalis: Counter me with facts na I hate this baseless argument I hand given you reasons behind my point counter them if u wish The fact you needed can be easily obtained by the literacy level of Nigeria to and UK. Also, in Nigeria, the general practice of polygamy aids high birth rate. Some religion even permit men to marry like 4 wives. Polygamy is almost non existing in and UK. It's common sense and simple maths. 15 Likes 3 Shares sukkot: 8:09am On Jul 12, 2023 tolue42: When I tell people that population is one of our biggest problem, people will be looking for excuses In 1960 Nigeria population was 45million, that same year UK population was 52 million 2023 Nigeria population is above 220 million , that same UK is just above 65 million.. How are we going to live a better life when we are not even productive like the UK.. that whole population thing is a lie. It's not humanly possible for 45 million to become 200 million in 60 years 9 Likes 2 Shares Purvan(m): 8:13am On Jul 12, 2023 China way day over populated still yet most middle to poor families are doing okay in China Tinubu should kukuma sell Naija to China mek China restructure Naija better uvie66: 8:17am On Jul 12, 2023 mrvitalis: We are still a young family Don't even know how to measure it but that's not a every quantifiable method to record U take a well defined quantity we can measure that's finte Like percentage of Nigerians that drive a car Or number of graduates... The guess their percentage and extrapolate all I am is please look around you, how many children do your siblings each have, if you are a young family then how many children do Father, Uncles, and aunties have ? 1 Like mrvitalis(m): 8:20am On Jul 12, 2023 uvie66: all I am is please look around you, how many children do your siblings each have, if you are a young family then how many children do Father, Uncles, and aunties have ? Average of 4 So what them hoe does that correlate to determining the final population princemillla(m): 8:22am On Jul 12, 2023 tolue42: When I tell people that population is one of our biggest problem, people will be looking for excuses In 1960 Nigeria population was 45million, that same year UK population was 52 million 2023 Nigeria population is above 220 million , that same UK is just above 65 million.. How are we going to live a better life when we are not even productive like the UK.. Not population but illiteracy. Birth control is very necessary in every nation. But tell ordinary Nigerians who is seeing small small change not to have more than 2kid and see the way they will tag u witch n wizzard 18 Likes 3 Shares mrvitalis(m): 8:25am On Jul 12, 2023 Padipadi: The fact you needed can be easily obtained by the literacy level of Nigeria to and UK. Also, in Nigeria, the general practice of polygamy aids high birth rate. Some religion even permit men to marry like 4 wives. Polygamy is almost non existing in and UK. It's common sense and simple maths. Niger men marry for wife's, same with Chad, same with mali, Senegal, and so many African nations what's their population? 35% of Germans have degree can't find the value for Nigeria Literacy rate in Nigeria is 77% German is 99% So what's your point? None of this can give u estimate of our population slam7000(m): 8:27am On Jul 12, 2023 tolue42: When I tell people that population is one of our biggest problem, people will be looking for excuses In 1960 Nigeria population was 45million, that same year UK population was 52 million 2023 Nigeria population is above 220 million , that same UK is just above 65 million.. How are we going to live a better life when we are not even productive like the UK.. This is the problem... Matawalle and co: 1 bura + 4 toto = 33 children. 4 Likes 2 Shares slam7000(m): 8:31am On Jul 12, 2023 sukkot: that whole population thing is a lie. It's not humanly possible for 45 million to become 200 million in 60 years You are either naive or deliberately lying to yourself. Tell this to Matawalle, Doguwa, Yari etc 3 men alone with more than 100 children 😳. 11 Likes 3 Shares tolue42(m): 8:39am On Jul 12, 2023 sukkot: that whole population thing is a lie. It's not humanly possible for 45 million to become 200 million in 60 years It's obvious you're yet to travel across our country 8 Likes 1 Share juman(m): 8:40am On Jul 12, 2023 Big population is good. Look at china. We just need to make use of the population. Government can raise almost all needed money from taxes. If the government can engage millions in agric jobs, agriculture can generate more money than oil. 2 Likes 24SEVEN: 8:41am On Jul 12, 2023 Christistruth03: I thought about this One and decided that at some Stage Africans will re Green the Sahara desert and resettle it The Technology and Science to do so is available China is doing it You will re-green the Sahara desert and settle there!!! Interesting. Maybe you don't know that the Sahara desert is inside the boundaries of other countries. You will explode your population in Nigeria and then transfer them to Algeria? 7 Likes 1 Share Johans2023: 8:41am On Jul 12, 2023 aremubabs: Do you have proof that one man earns 50% of Lagos revenue? The only thing I agree with you about is that of excess greed and selfishness. In South Africa, if a community has a billionaire, you will feel his impact on that community even if he doesn't live there all the time. Community service is prioritized there. But in Nigeria, you might see a muddy road leading to a community which has two or more billionaires. For example, the road leading to Peter Obi's village. We have more billionaires than any other African countries, but our billionaires are only concerned about their own family, and the ones who are showing concern for their community or kinsmen are those preparing to go into politics. But all this does not mean that population is not also a major problem. Because we don't produce much, we are unable to sufficiently feed our teeming population. Demand is way higher than food supply, and this creates demand-pull inflation. Also because we import far more than we export, factoring in raw material and import cost into our goods, we create cost-pull inflation for ourselves. We also don't gave good managers of resources like we had in the person of Obafemi Awolowo who saw to it that Nigeria fought the Biafran war for 30 months without borrowing a single penny. we may differ in one point I also agree with with everything you said. Thanks 👍 sukkot: 8:42am On Jul 12, 2023 slam7000: You are either naive or deliberately lying to yourself. Tell this to Matawalle, Doguwa, Yari etc 3 men alone with more than 100 children 😳. it is mathematically impossible. Let's say each year one million babies are born but also death in those years is half a million . Still does not exceed 90. Million. These overbloated numbers is used by politicians for resource allocation corruption. Once you go outside of Lagos is when you realise Nigeria is underpopulated . It's just that a quarter of the population of Nigeria ran to Lagos . Go to all the villages you can walk 10 miles without seeing a single person 6 Likes 1 Share Tunechi5(m): 8:42am On Jul 12, 2023 RenaissanceGuy: US doesn't have anything aside population?? US that's the centre of world's technology and manufacturing has nothing?? what natural resources do they have,when it comes to natural resourse nigeria has more ,us has zero resources what they have is man power with brain ,which is what nigeria lacks sukkot: 8:43am On Jul 12, 2023 sukkot: it is mathematically impossible. Let's say each year one million babies are born but also death in those years is half a million . Still does not exceed 90. Million. These overbloated numbers is used by politicians for resource allocation corruption. Once you go outside of Lagos is when you realise Nigeria is underpopulated . It's just that a quarter of the population of Nigeria ran to Lagos . Go to all the villages you can walk 10 miles without seeing a single person tolue42: It's obvious you're yet to travel across our country Childfree: 8:53am On Jul 12, 2023 Tunechi5: honestly ,dont think population is our problem ,what nigeria needs is a good leader, more population more manpower, US is prime example ,other than population what do they have? Population is a problem. Those countries, infrastructural development, job creation and every other thing goes hand in hand with their population. While here, it is evident and obvious that No good leaders, no proper resource management, not enough infrastructural development, not much job creation. Yet you people keep on adding more to your population even at a fast rate than your development. Tell me why there won't be breakdown? Secondly, even at the individual level. They earn considerable amount of money, yet they birth 1 or 2 children. I.e they'll have enough resource to cater for the 2 and live a good life. Here you don't earn good, yet you give birth to plenty children hence more liability that requires more money. Isn't this dumb? I am not taking the blame from any leader, however in the face of what we are in, is rising the population or you as an individual giving birth anyhow is the solution to the challenges? In fact tell me 1 country that is doing well and the birth rate is high? 11 Likes 1 Share Christistruth03: 8:54am On Jul 12, 2023 24SEVEN: You will re-green the Sahara desert and settle there!!! Interesting. Maybe you don't know that the Sahara desert is inside the boundaries of other countries. You will explode your population in Nigeria and then transfer them to Algeria? Niger Next door is part of ECOWAS and 90% of it is Desert And many Nigeriens already live in Nigeria Niger doesn't belong to Nigeria of Course but if Nigeriens are freely migrating to Nigeria then Nigerians can move in the opposite direction providing they can regreen the Sahara desert there But there are other Solutions for example much of Nigeria is physically uninhabited because People have Congregated on the Major Cities,more towns need to be built in the uninhabited areas 1 Like bryning899: 8:58am On Jul 12, 2023 mrvitalis: Anyone who believes Nigeria is anything above 100 million is joking I laugh at them saying Lagos is 20 million Lagos that 40% is still untouched bushes? Before going argue use Google Earth don't come and disgrace yourself here 95% of Lagos population live at the center... East is bush, West is bush Nigeria population is maximum 100 million That's just the truth, this last election further exposed falsification of Nigeria population, this last election was the best in Nigeria through not that credible but best in Nigeria.... 5 Likes Nursepepeye(f): 9:01am On Jul 12, 2023 helinues: How poor men dey get erection na something I still never understand. they live the best life less things to worry about. Rich people worries about everything, even thier existence is a big issues 6 Likes jmoore(m): 9:01am On Jul 12, 2023 juman: Big population is good. Look at china. We just need to make use of the population. Government can raise almost all needed money from taxes. If the government can engage millions in agric jobs, agriculture can generate more money than oil. What is the population of Japan? Japan has a GDP bigger than the continent of Africa. 12 Likes 2 Shares Gajagojo: 9:02am On Jul 12, 2023 tolue42: When I tell people that population is one of our biggest problem, people will be looking for excuses In 1960 Nigeria population was 45million, that same year UK population was 52 million 2023 Nigeria population is above 220 million , that same UK is just above 65 million.. How are we going to live a better life when we are not even productive like the UK.. So you talk without logic . The logic of your statement is population is not the problem rather unproductiveness Whether you have 5 million of 500 million unproductive people they are still unproductive If you kill half of the population will that fix the problem helinues: 9:02am On Jul 12, 2023 Nursepepeye: they leave the best life less things to worry about. Rich people worries about everything, even thier existence is a big issues You must be talking from experience Childfree: 9:06am On Jul 12, 2023 Tunechi5: nigeria dont have good leaders bro...population is the least one shhould worry about , the us and china have nothing other than man power which is what they use, to be were they are today Population is a big factor. A country population should rise at the same rate as their development rate, then you'll have everything balanced. Reverse is the case here, your population is going 3X than your development. What do you expect? Is rising the population the solution? 14 Likes 4 Shares otosa(m): 9:08am On Jul 12, 2023 Something is wrong with our system that fails to checkmate an uncontrollable population we are generating. 4 Likes 1 Share Reply) Alausa Protest Ground Reportedly Surrounded By Security Agents, Light Turned Off (Go Up) Sections: How To . 61Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or s on Nairaland. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'UA-91638-1'); (function (d, w, c) {(w[c] = w[c] || []).push(function() {try {w.yaCounter87021866 = new Ya.Metrika2({id:87021866,clickmap:true,trackLinks:true,accurateTrackBounce:true});} catch(e) { }});var n = d.getElementsByTagName("script")[0],s = d.createElement("script"),f = function () { n.parentNode.insertBefore(s, n); };s.type = "text/javascript";s.async = true;s.src = "https://mc.yandex.ru/metrika/tag.js";if (w.opera == "[object Opera]") {d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", f, false);} else { f(); 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