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Nigeria Name Institutional Affiliation Nigeria Nigeria is one of the African countries which are fast growing both socially and economically. It has been rated as the second African most developed country. It’s endowed with natural resources such as oil which has been vital in the development of the country. As it grows economically, Nigeria is experiencing by social-cultural issues ranging from conflicts, high population growth, religious conflicts, poverty and high level of illiteracy. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with over 167 million people. Although Nigeria has been endowed with essential natural resources, they are not enough to cater for its large population. For the past decade, it has become completely impossible to for the government to effectively offer social services to its entire population (Olusanya,2015). Millions of people are not able to get a quality education and better health care. Also, the government is forced to depend much from other countries so as to finance its annual budget. Most importantly, there is a shortage of electricity, inadequate clean water, poor infrastructures and inadequate housing. Nigeria is a capitalist country whereby most of the resources are in the hands of the rich people hence increasing the gap between the rich and the poor. Due to the high population, there is an increase in social evils such as prostitution, robbery with violence and abortion. There is also the very high rate of unemployment which increases the social evils. Corruption is a pressing problem in all parts of Nigeria. Predictions show that by 2030, 37% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will be misused if the government does
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