The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says 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 report, which was recently released on its website. “An economic recession is consistent with an increase in unemployment as jobs are lost and […]
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U.S. job growth slowed in August as employers added 156,000 jobs, though still enough to suggest that most businesses remain confident in an economy now in its ninth year of recovery from the Great Recession. The unemployment rate ticked up from 4.3 percent to a still-low 4.4 percent, the Labor Department said Friday. The government […]
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Nigeria’s rate of unemployment in surge up to 14.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016, from 13.9 percent in Q3, with the number of unemployed in the labour force increasing by 351,015 persons. This was revealed in the Unemployment/Under-employment Report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), yesterday. The report noted that the national unemployment […]
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The Lagos State Government has reiterated its commitment to increasing the employability skills of graduates by creating opportunities for them to become empowered and employed. The Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Mr. Babatunde Durosinmi-Etti, said this during an induction programme for the graduates of the internship scheme on Thursday. He said, “About 250 beneficiaries […]
Read More The labour market has added another 1.7 million to its 9.48 million statistics from the beginning of the year. The report from the National Bureau of Statistics showed that the current economic situation has increase the number of unemployed Nigerians from 9.48 million at the beginning of the year to 11.19 million by September ending. The report also […]
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THROUGH the Bank of Industry (BoI), the Federal Government has taken a bold step to tackle unemployment. It launched a N10 billion Youths Entrepreneurship Support (YES) project to empower youths with revolving loans to start businesses. Speaking at the launch the launch at Transcorp Hilton in Abuja, Industry, Trade and Investment Minister Okechukwu Enelamah said […]
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NIGERIA needs to ramp up training and job creation schemes for university graduates, a leading recruitment agency said on Monday, after a survey indicated nearly half of those with a higher education qualification were unemployed. A total of 41,032 (45.72 percent) of the 89,755 people who responded to the survey on jobberman said they were […]
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