The latest ranking of countries with the highest unemployment rate has shown Nigeria at the top of the chart for the wrong reason. The World of Statistics in its latest release on Sunday via its verified Twitter handle ranked Nigeria high, indicating the country has the highest level of unemployment in the world at 33.3%. […]
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The incumbent Governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose and the state Governor-elect, Kayode Fayemi, are currently locked in war of words over massive recruitment of the former’s croonies. Dr. Fayemi had warned the management of the College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti, to stop working with the incumbent governor, Ayodele Fayose, to embark on “illegal mass employment” at […]
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The federal government has offered employment to 350 ex-agitators from the Niger Delta region, who graduated from various tertiary institutions across the world. Paul Boroh, coordinator, presidential amnesty programme, PAP, made this known when he newsmen in Abuja on Friday. Boroh, who doubles as the special adviser to the president on Niger Delta, said the […]
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Out of the total active labour force of 85.08 million people in Nigeria, about 16 million people were unemployed in the third quarter of 2017, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has said. This was contained in a report on Labour Force Statistics in the third quarter of 2017 published on the bureau’s website on […]
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The Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC) says it is not true that the commission is recruiting people into various Federal Government ministries. Dr Joel Oruche, the Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations made the clarification in a statement in Abuja on Sunday. According to him, the on-line recruitment advertisement purportedly by the FCSC is not […]
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The Peace Corps of Nigeria says it will recruit 2, 000 youths from Lagos State this year, Mr Mutairu Habib, the South-West Zonal Commandant of the corps said on Saturday in Lagos. “The corps is targeting to recruit 2,000 officers in Lagos State this year as part of efforts to reduce unemployment,” he told a […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday took on top officials of the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development led by the Permanent Secretary, Baba Farouk, on illegal mining in the sector. He described Farouk’s presentation to him that Nigeria’s mining sector had been infiltrated by “illegal aliens” who engage in unlawful mining activities as the most […]
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