Coping with Population Education and National Development in Nigeria: The Role of In-School System

Population education is a programme of creating awareness among students and the public about the various causes and harmful consequence of rapid growth of population. However, population the is the term typically used to refer to the number of people in a single area. Government conducts a census to quantify the size of a resident population within a given jurisdiction. This paper Focuses on Population Education and National Development in Nigeria, what roles in- school system could play. Salient issues such as the concept of population education, why population education, objectives/goals of population education, contemporary population education-related issues/problems to national development, the roles of in- school system and suggestions towards achieving desirable goals of population education in Nigeria.