The concerns among stakeholders on Nigeria’s rising population makes the need for government to key into family planning by investing in it inevitable. It is obvious that one of the major problems confronting Nigeria as a country today is overpopulation.
A country is overpopulated when the number of existing human population exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecological niche.
The continued lamentation approach will certainly not work but pro-activeness as solution to the challenges of overpopulation and poverty in the country could be found in use of contraceptive methods.
Already, Nigeria is projected to be the world’s third most populous country by the year 2050, according to a report released by the United Nation (UN) Department of Economic and Social Affairs. This, many say is not a good news for the country going by the challenges the country is facing with 198 million people.
According to stakeholders, the Nigerian environment, its natural resources, economy and…
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