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The Impact Of Over Population In The Socio-economic Development In Nigeria
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CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Over population is a very big threat
to the socio-economic development of any given country most especially
when the available resources is no where to carter for the needs and
yearnings of the people coupled with bad leadership and governance or
political instability as found in our country Nigeria. In the present
day National Development pace, it is obvious to say that one of the
biggest problems faced by any government of the country is the question
of how to be able to extend its developmental projects and activities to
all angles and entire members of the country, and their failure to do
this, bring about negative influences and criticism to such a government
or regime and also poses some constraints to the development of the
country and yet the Nigeria’s population keeps increasing beyond the
control of the government, as a result of these, Nigeria has been
characterized with low standard of living, low quality of education,
lack of social welfare packages, low per-capital income among others
which are very harmful to the socio-economic development of the country
and its reputation in the international communities.
1.1BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Today,
population has become one of the most controversial factors that are
always given a special consideration in the socio-economic developmental
plan of every country in the world. As many countries of the world may
have different levels of population, our country Nigeria has been
re-cognized world wide as one of the most populated countries of the
world. But all the same, it is important to point out here that the
level of the population of any country must have both negative and
positive on the developmental level of such a country.
Population in
Nigeria is always used in the allocation of seats and many other
developmental benefits and consideration which has now made our
population census to becomes a very strong political instrument used by
various ethnic groups in achieving their political objectives.
1.2STATEMENT OF THE STUDY
The
Nigeria’s over population has brought about many problems in the
country which if not checked on time, may turn the country into a hell
fire. The problems include:
1. The rate of the growth of the
Nigeria’s population has made the members of the country to begin to
wonder if it could ever be controlled again.
2. There is a high level of environment pollution in the country.
3. The standard of living and education is speedily decreasing while the cost of living is also increasing.
4.
In the town where this project research is focused, people greatly
suffer the problem of scarcity of residential housing accommodation.
5. There is now a high level of social vices in the country.
6. There is now a high level of outbreak of disease resulting from the congestion in our roads, houses etc.
7.
The rate at which the population increase has strictly refused to
respond positively to all the strategies applied by the government
towards its control and management.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This project research work has been designed to carefully and critically investigate and examine “The impact of over population in the socio-economic development of Nigeria’’ using Osisioma Ngwa Local Government in Abia State (particularly, Aba town) as a case study, it also contains some other sub-topics such as the causes of over population, benefits of over population, solutions to the problems of over population and the need for population study in Nigeria among others fo ... Continue reading---
