Nigeria’s population of 177 million is a red flag for population controllers
By Steven Mosher
Population Research Institute
With its vast natural resources, the African country of Nigeria has the wherewithal to lift itself out of poverty without foreign help. If it would put its oil money to work educating its population, building a first-rate infrastructure, and creating an industrial base, it could be another Japan.
But the West is trying to impose another agenda on the African giant. Instead of encouraging industrialization, the West talks about “sustainable development” (read: slow or no development). Instead of urging it to expand its petroleum industry, the West talks about “reducing carbon emissions.” Instead of suggesting the building of schools, the West talks up the need for more family planning clinics. And instead of helping to reduce infant and child mortality, the West continues to pour money into programs to reduce the birth rate.
Of course, the UNFPA doesn’t say, in so many words, that they want fewer Nigerian children to be born. That would be politically incorrect. Instead they claim that they are interested in reducing maternal mortality.
The women of Nigeria could certainly use help in this area. The average Nigerian woman has a one in thirty chance of dying in childbirth.[1] The most common causes of death for Nigerian women are hemorrhage (bleeding) or infection of the genital areas, which leads to fever, peritonitis, and death.[2]
Western aids agencies argue that the best way to fight maternal mortality is not by improving access to quality healthcare for women, but by fighting maternity itself by chemically and surgically sterilizing women.
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With its vast natural resources, the African country of Nigeria has the wherewithal to lift itself out of poverty without foreign help. If it would put its oil money to work educating its population, building a first-rate infrastructure, and creating an industrial base, it could be another Japan.
But the West is trying to impose another agenda on the African giant. Instead of encouraging industrialization, the West talks about “sustainable development” (read: slow or no development). Instead of urging it to expand its petroleum industry, the West talks about “reducing carbon emissions.” Instead of suggesting the building of schools, the West talks up the need for more family planning clinics. And instead of helping to reduce infant and child mortality, the West continues to pour money into programs to reduce the birth rate.
Of course, the UNFPA doesn’t say, in so many words, that they want fewer Nigerian children to be born. That would be politically incorrect. Instead they claim that they are interested in reducing maternal mortality.
The women of Nigeria could certainly use help in this area. The average Nigerian woman has a one in thirty chance of dying in childbirth.[1] The most common causes of death for Nigerian women are hemorrhage (bleeding) or infection of the genital areas, which leads to fever, peritonitis, and death.[2]
Western aids agencies argue that the best way to fight maternal mortality is not by improving access to quality healthcare for women, but by fighting maternity itself by chemically and surgically sterilizing women.
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