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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, expressed concern over Nigeria’s rising population, fearing that the nation might be the third most populated by 2050.

The Owu chief, who was addressing a mentoring session with students of some selected schools across the federation, tagged ‘Raising the next wave of innovative leaders through entrepreneurship’, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, called for better management in the face of the geometric population explosion without a corresponding socio-economic development, a situation which he said, had slowed down national development.

He said: “We have moved from 120 million to over 200 million. We have added the population of France to our population and if we continue the way we are going, by the year 2050, we will be third largest country in he world.“What are we going to do to handle that, how are we going to handle that population? If we do not start getting it right now, we will not get it right by the year 2050.”

He continued: “What we need to do is education about population management. Some people don’t like saying family planning but, whatever you do, you must manage your population to the benefit of all that are living within your nation.” His words: “One possible approach to reverse this trend would be to increase attention and funding for hands-on entrepreneurship and community service education.

 

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This should be the least of his worries

I’m rather disturbed by his worry!

Not sustainable in any way, too crowded and no jobs or enough food for the population

Go and join your ancestors joor

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