List 3 resources which contributed to Nigeria's population growth and economic success?

1. Crude oil and coal.

2. The lack of education. Especially as related to population education, sex education and the lowering of infant mortality and birth rates.

3. They have a m ale-child preference. In many cultures in Nigeria, male offspring are more highly valued than females for a variety of reasons (like carrying on the family name, greater upper-body strength for physical labor), which leads to the common practice of continuous child birth in an attempt to have male children.