Bachelorette at 14-04-2012 09:18 PM (13 years ago)
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In a quarter-century, at the rate Nigeria is growing, 300 million people — a population about as big as that of the present-day United States — will live in a country the size of Arizona and New Mexico. In this commercial hub, where the area’s population has by some estimates nearly doubled over 15 years to 21 million, living standards for many are falling.
In Ketu for instance, a newborn boy is attended to by the light of cellphones, the power having gone out. Lifelong residents like Peju Taofika and her three granddaughters inhabit a room in a typical apartment block known as a “Face Me, Face You” because whole families squeeze into 7-by-11-foot rooms along a narrow corridor. Up to 50 people share a kitchen, toilet and sink — though the pipes in the neighborhood often no longer carry water.
At Alapere Primary School, more than 100 students cram into most classrooms, two to a desk. As graduates pour out of high schools and universities, Nigeria’s unemployment rate is nearly 50 percent for people in urban areas ages 15 to 24 — driving crime and discontent. The growing upper-middle class also feels the squeeze, as commutes from even nearby suburbs can run two to three hours.
Last October, the United Nations announced the global population had breached seven billion and would expand rapidly for decades, taxing natural resources if countries cannot better manage the growth. Nearly all of the increase is in sub-Saharan Africa, where the population rise far outstrips economic expansion. Of the roughly 20 countries where women average more than five children, almost all are in the region.
THIS IS ABSOLUTE RUBBISH COS WE ARE NOT TAKING THE HUGE FIGURE ADVANTAGE LIKE CHINA TO IMPROVE ON OUR PRODUCTIVITY ECONOMICALLY. 300MILLION PEOPLE WITH OVER 80% OF IT LIVING BELOW AVERAGE. 9JA IS STILL WONDERING IN THE DARK
Posted: at 14-04-2012 11:56 PM (13 years ago) | Newbie
evedflower at 15-04-2012 01:08 AM (13 years ago) (f)
This is because in-laws will pressure women to have more children than they should. Men will not stop pressuring unmarried girl/women to engage in premarital sex. Men will not stop molesting women/girls that DON'T want sex.
Posted: at 15-04-2012 01:08 AM (13 years ago) | Upcoming
I have always said that te North is the problem of Nigeria. A 15 year old boy in the north will marry 10 wifes and have 100 children. tell me how we will developed?
Posted: at 15-04-2012 02:46 AM (13 years ago) | Upcoming
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