A recent article in the Financial Times on 13 October 2016 drew attention to the looming crisis of falling oil prices and rapid population growth in Nigeria. Under the dramatic headline Dividend or disaster, the article suggests that the failure of Nigeria to rein in population growth in response to economic contraction is a problem of Islamic values. An opening vignette of a man in his 40s with four wives and eighteen children illustrates an argument that fertility rates as high as 8.4 children per woman in some of the poorest northern Nigerian states are breeding poverty and disaffection in the largely Muslim north of the country. According to the columnist, “cultural norms hold sway in the conservative north, a predominantly Muslim region where poverty and high unemployment are cited as factors behind the rise of Boko Haram, the jihadist group.” While Nigeria’s demographic tsunami amid joblessness and falling growth is an issue that demands urgent attention, blaming it on Islamic values is a dangerous misreading of both the demographic and the economic issues at play.

More: http://www.naijiant.com/guestcolumn/gambling-demography-investor-confidence-islamic-values-nigeria/

Seriously, some men are just hiding under Islam, while Islam tells them to take care of their responsibility, not just to marry as many wives.
Religion needs to be followed with our brains functioning well.

One of our problems in Nigeria is population, we are 14th largest country in Africa by landmass

GodIsFoolish:
One of our problems in Nigeria is population, we are 14th largest country in Africa by landmass

Poverty is causing the population explosion. Deal with poverty and you minimise the population problem. That is the argument in the article.