Nigeria being the most populous nation in Africa and fourth on earth, it will be very difficult for the government to tame the nation’s insecurity challenges so far as we keep giving birth to children anyhow; Nigeria is getting overpopulated.
Overpopulation is when the human population rises beyond the carrying capacity of the ecological setting or a state where the available resources won’t be enough for the populace such as transport, water, shelter, food, education and health facilities among other social amenities.
This contributes to crises and environmental degradation, worsening quality of life, or even the disintegration of the population – the current Nigeria’s situation.
It’s nearly two decades Nigeria’s government has been battling with insecurity yet there is no end to the menace. In a nutshell, the problem of Nigeria is uncontrolled population. Nigeria’s population is bigger than the country’s available resources; the resources are not enough to sustain our population.
Overpopulation can lead to depletion of natural resources, worsens environmental and social factors such as pollution, malnutrition, overcrowded living conditions, and lacking health care which makes poor communities vulnerable to infectious diseases. Diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, HIV, and dysentery spread faster in overpopulated areas.
The worst part is, overpopulation brings about unemployment as the available jobs are fewer than the overall job seeking population. This contributes to high levels of unemployment. Lack of unemployment leads to high crime rates. Violence and conflicts arise when people start competing for the available limited resources.
In this regard, Nigeria’s problem is overpopulation not insecurity.
It’s high time the Nigerian government fought overpopulation before insecurity by implementing policies that enforce birth spacing in Nigeria. Children born and brought up in the streets are the major problem of the nation because they are the ones being recruited by the unscrupulous elements as agents of societal destruction.
So it’s better we give birth to children that we can take care of instead of giving birth to many children without having the means to control and cater for their needs which eventually becomes ill to the society; together we can save Nigeria and put an end to the menace of Insecurity in a simple way by adopting child spacing, let’s make our country better again for the future of younger generation.
Ukasha Rabiu Magama,
Toro LGA,
Bauchi state
