World Have Your Say live from Lagos
| 12:59 UK time, Monday, 31 October 2011
World Have Your Say is live from Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city today, tomorrow and Wednesday. So tune in at 1700GMT in the United States or 1800GMT for the rest of the world.
The UN says the global population will hit 7 billion today. Today, we are broadcasting from Island Maternity Hospital and meeting mums and their new babies. We are going to talk about big families, contraception, maternal health and the strain on provide food, water and resources. The planet has doubled in population since the 1960s.
Africa has the world’s highest birth rate. With between 12 million and 17 million people, Lagos is already over populated and thousands of people arrive here each month, and predicted to become Africa’s biggest city by 2014 (it’s currently Cairo).
On Tuesday we’ll be working with a new Nigerian radio station, Nigeria Info 99.3, sister station to Cool FM. It has just launched this month and is broadcasting WHYS every day. You can follow them on twitter here and their head of news on twitter.
And we could do with your help for Wednesday's show. We’re still looking for a location in Lagos. Any intruiging places you think we could be?
You can tweet us @bbc_whys post your comments on Facebook or call us during the programme on country code plus 44 20 70 83 72 72 or email us at worldhaveyoursay@bbc.com
Comment number 1.
At 17:42 31st Oct 2011, Elias wrote:The official figures on the world population is an approximate guide, there are far more births unaccounted for, the many unregistered, where no registration is possible or required.
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Comment number 2.
At 06:09 1st Nov 2011, Andreas wrote:This planet's resources are limited, therefore human population must be limited. Biologists have suggested that humans have already overpopulated the planet by a factor of 10. Famines have killed masses of people over hundreds of years. In the end there may be war over the remaining dwindling resources. Unless overpopulation is stopped as of now. Worldwide education by the UN and other NGOs must enlighten populations about the stark realities. To feed existing populations more evenly and justly, governments must stop squandering money in useless wars and space exploitation. Education of populations and their educated self-determination is the key.
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At 15:27 2nd Nov 2011, LilyWhite wrote:It was wonderful that WHYS visited the maternity ward in Lagos; it was a nice experience to share and really brought a unique perspective. WHYS should do more shows like it in the future!
It is good to see postings being made on the blog and some comments being approved too. It is difficult to tweet in 106 characters all you want to say.
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Comment number 4.
At 20:49 5th Nov 2011, Native English not British wrote:I see that in Nigeria the Religion of Peace (Islam) is once again bombing Christian Churches and killing Christians. Evil acts by evil people.
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Comment number 5.
At 11:20 17th Nov 2011, david lulasa AKA daudee mwanzi wrote:I DONT THINK THERE IS AN IGNORANT MAN AND WOMAN WHO IS JUST GOING AROUND HAVING MORE CHILDREN DUE TO LACK OF UNDERSTANDING AND THUS ACTING UNNATURALLY..THOUGH HAVING EVEN A CHILD SHOULD BE SOMETHING TO SAY THANKS TO GOD FOR
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At 12:03 10th Dec 2011, G Em wrote:Its quite interesting to know that poputlation is contiuous to grow at most parts of Africa. It is better to educate African people about the culture of birth control so that they will learn how to avoid over population and infant mortality.
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