Obasanjo suggests how unemployment can be eradicated in Nigeria

Nigeria’s ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday identified what Nigeria needs to manage its growing unemployed youths. Obasanjo stated that Nigeria needs political will and action to transform its growing unemployed population. Speaking at the Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe symposium in Lagos, the former president lamented that a lot of youths have resorted to violence and joining kidnap […]

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Buhari withholding funds from NBS to cover up unemployment figures ahead of 2019

The Atiku Campaign Organisation has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of deliberately covering up unemployment figures to protect his re-election bid. In a statement on Thursday, the organisation accused the Buhari-led administration of deliberately not providing funds for the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to release the report which is long overdue. Yemi Kale, the statistician-general […]

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WHICH JOB? Nigeria’s unemployment rate on the rise, hits 18.8% – NBS

Nigeria’s unemployment rate worsened from 16.2 percent in the second quarter of 2017 to 18.8 percent in the third quarter of the year, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday. The NBS said the number of people within the labour force who were unemployed increased from 13.6 million in the second quarter of the […]

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UNEMPLOYED: FG begins recruitment of 500,000 graduates

The federal government of Nigeria has begun the process of fulfilling its campaign promise of recruiting 500,000 teachers across the country, as part of its social investment programme. The information was released from the office of Laolu Akande, spokesman of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday. It was stated that […]

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