Six Jobs Seeking a Sixth Sense Against Nigeria's Skyrocketing Population
Figure 1: Six Jobs Seeking a Sixth Sense against Nigeria's Skyrocketing Population: Source - Dr. Adetolu Ademujimi, Sartorius Resources, 2026 I may not know when the next population & housing census in Nigeria will be conducted but I surely know that my country needs more than just counting our numbers. I once wrote in a past publication about my conviction: “ that population census without a procreation censure is a popularized carelessness – or senselessness, of the world’s poverty capital called Nigeria” . When I imagine that the Nigeria Revenue Service has a 2026 revenue target of forty trillion naira, which is a trivial 27 billion US Dollars for an estimated population of 230 million people and compare it with Brazil’s revenue of one trillion US dollars in 2025 for a 213 million population, I become terrified. My country’s poor socioeconomic indices scare me to think critically of the astronomical increase in these six occupations among both the educated and uneducated...