Thread by @kj_hova

Many have wondered why Nigeria has failed to build health infrastructure comparable to the West despite our oil wealth. While the answers often point to poor governance & official kleptomania, I hereby present a usually ignored co-culprit, population explosion!
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Below is a historical comparative of the economic/population growth of #Nigeria & our erstwhile conquerors, #UK, from 1860 to 2019 as publicly available on the internet:
Yr/GDPn/(Pop.)

1920
UK: N/A (42.08m)
NG: N/A (18.15m)

1960
UK: $73.23B (50.23m)
NG: $4.2B (48.26m)
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1991
UK: $1.14T (56.36m)
NG: $49.12B (88.99m)

2011
UK: $2.66T (59.11m)
NG: $410.33B (162.47m)

2019
UK: $2.74T (63.18m)
NG: $446.54B (200.96m)

From 1960-2019, econ growth was NG-10,500% & UK-3,600%! We outperformed them. So why isn't this glaring in real life?
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Our wealth is being stolen, plus capital flight by FDIs. Well, that & more. Let's see the pop. trend.

From 1960-2019, pop growth was NG-320% & UK-25%! While their pop grew by a quarter, ours more than tripled! A hospital built in #UK for 1,000 patients in 1960 will...
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...need to serve 1,250 patients in 2020. All they need to do is fund expansion & modernization of that 1 hospital! Conversely, a 1,000 bed hospital in Ibadan in 1960 will need to cater for 3,200 patients in 2020!!! We have to build 2 more of such hospital & modernize...
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...the old one!
GDPpc (total econ. value per citizen) in 1960 was UK-$1,458 & NG-$87! Today UK is $43,432 while NG is $2,222. If we had the same pop. growth rate as #UK, we'd be 60.33m people today & our GDPpc would be $7,402 placing us just under #China!!!
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Fellow #Nigerians, we are OVERBREEDING!!! And this should be our front burner issue after #COVID19 pandemic is over and not RUGA settlements, Amotekun or Igbo presidency or any other meaningless chatter like these! There has to be governmental policy at all levels to slow the...

...population EXPLOSION! Followed by a robust human development program across board. We're sitting on a ticking bomb & the sound rings louder! @MBuhari @ProfOsinbajo @OfficialAPCNg @OfficialPDPNig This' the time for action sirs. Business as usual will no longer cut it! #COVID19