The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, during a panel session of the 25th Nigeria Economic Summit stated that Nigeria’s population is gradually becoming a liability than a blessing it ought to be.
According to him, the increase in crime such as the kidnapping, armed robbery, insurgency, farmers-herders crisis, is as a result our unproductive population.
Nigeria’s population currently stands at 201 million.
“People talk that our population is an asset but we are yet to get there. Nigeria’s population is currently a liability because most of the root cause of problems such as kidnapping, armed robbery, Boko Haram, drug addiction are all tied to the population that we have and the question is how do you turn that into a productive one” he opined
