INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA AGRI 4000-PRACTICING THE PROFESSION OF AGROLOGIST Nathaniel Akinkunmi 7764897 Introduction The agriculture industry in Nigeria has opportunities that are not maximized due to challenges it is facing. Background Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with a population of 177,155,754 and was governed by the British government till October 1st, 1960 when Nigeria gained independence. The Capital of Nigeria is Abuja located in the centre of the country. Nigeria is located
attempts to focus on economic growth as a means to poverty removal and/or environmental sustainability” (Lele 1991: 618). Do you agree with this statement? Explain your position. Introduction The concept of ‘sustainable development’ is one that has faced heated debates for decades now. A seemingly harmless concept, it raises a lot of questions as to what it really entails and how exactly it can be achieved. But with more than 1.3 billion people living in abject poverty (less than $1.25 a day), and
PROBLEMS OF URBANIZATION Urbanization, or urban drift is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change. Urbanization is also defined by the United Nations as movement of people from rural to urban areas with population growth equating to urban migration. The United Nations projected that half of the world's population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008 Urbanization is closely linked to modernization, industrialization, and the sociological process of rationalization
Lagos, Nigeria Africa’s most populated nation has more than 150 million people and within this nation resides Lagos with a population of more than 20 million people. Lagos, Nigeria is the capital, nation’s biggest urban agglomeration, and is the third largest, most populated city in the world. Since early times, Lagos has grown through rural-urban migration. Lagos started off as a small farming and fishing settlement on an island close to the coast. In 1472 the Portuguese arrived on the land and
through the Lens of Nigeria Nigeria is a lower-middle-income country located in western Africa. Nigeria is one of the fastest growing populations in the world today, growing at a rate of 3.2 percent annually (United States Agency for International Development, 2017). The combination of low income and large population introduces many developmental challenges that Nigeria must overcome in order to decrease individual health risk and increase quality of life. The development of Nigeria is not just effected
Nigeria and Angola are both West African countries plagued by the resource curse. The countries are teeming with oil, ranking Nigeria as Africa’s largest oil producer and Angola as the second largest oil producer. In 2014 it was reported that Nigeria was responsible for producing 2.4 million barrels of oil per day and Angola produced 1.8 million barrels of oil per day. While these numbers have fluctuated greatly in the past, both countries still remain at the top as Africa’s oil producers. The production
Country Portfolio of Nigeria When you look at the continent of Africa, there is a country on the west coast called Nigeria. It is officially known as the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it’s capital is Abuja and it has the largest population among African countries. The total population in Nigeria was estimated at 181.5 million people in 2014, according to the latest census figures. The country achieved independence in 1960 from Great Britain and has struggled economically, socially and politically
Poverty in Nigeria vs. The United States The dictionary definition of poverty is the state of being extremely poor, or the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. Many people may say that poverty is poverty and that there are no levels to it, but the poverty in Nigeria, Africa is on a different spectrum than countries in other continents. The poverty in America is over exaggerated while the poverty in Nigeria not. The population of
and far more rooms than needed. Meanwhile, in a neighboring town just miles away is poverty stricken land where someone calls home. It is surrounded by trash, with little food to eat, as the stench of sewage from the local city coats the air. This scenario is foreign to people living in the United States. That is simply because this is a problem prevalent to ones living in Nigeria, West Africa. For decades, Nigeria has been infamously known for the non-progressive gap between the categorization of
been concerned over the course of the past century with the amount of poverty that is existent in various parts of the globe, and how the rate of poverty seems to only be increasing. Consider the abject poverty and poor economic infrastructure that has been endemic to the countries of Africa for all of the modern era. According to Ana (2007) one of the primary reasons limiting economic expansion in countries such as Nigeria is that basic lack of access to financial capital that is necessary to