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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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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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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Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun, on Saturday said the state had the lowest index of unemployment in Nigeria because of the youth engagement programmes he had instituted since coming to power in 2010. Aregbesola made the assertion while speaking with newsmen in Osogbo, after a fitness walk organised for the newly absorbed 20, 000 youths […]
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If you think the rate of unemployment in Nigeria is alarmingly high, then you have to brace up for the challenge ahead. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has indicated that the number of unemployed people in Nigeria will increase in the fourth quarter of 2017. The bureau made this prediction in the third quarter unemployment […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingImplementation plans for the effective commencement of a number of the social investment programmes of the Buhari presidency has reached advanced stages as the selection of the first 200,000 unemployed graduates to get jobs is now being completed.Speaking with a small group of radio journalists and producers at the Presidential Villa, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo […]
Continue ReadingThe 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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