BY TEMITOPE ADEBAYO As Nigeria grapples with a growing youth population and a shrinking formal job market, experts and youth advocates alike are calling for an urgent shift in focus—from creating elusive white-collar jobs to building a robust ecosystem for entrepreneurship. Each year, thousands of Nigerian students graduate from higher institutions only to join the […]
BY HARUNA SALAMI The Senate is considering stiffer penalties to stem job racketeering, disregard for federal character principle in job employment and other irregularities that violate the Constitution of Nigeria. This was disclosed Tuesday by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Senator Allwell Onyesoh (Rivers East) after a crucial meeting of […]
By Nosa Àkeñzua Syndicates of job racketeers in Delta State have ripped off hundreds of unsuspecting employment seekers to the tune of an estimated eye-popping N765 million, leaving a trail of tears, anguish and sorrow among victims. Reliable sources told The Daily Times that not a few of the victims had committed suicide. Investigations revealed […]
Nigerian editor, Otosirieze Obi-Young, has lost his job after criticizing Mrs. Hadiza Isma El-Rufai, wife of Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai. The shocking exit of Obi-Young as the deputy editor of Brittle Paper, a digital literary journal, has stirred outrage online, after he said in a statement he was forced to leave Brittle Paper […]
The Edo State Government is to establish a job centre in each of the 18 local government areas of the state and equip job seekers with new skills required for the jobs being created in the state. The Commissioner for Wealth Creation, Cooperatives and Employment, Hon. Emmanuel Usoh, said this at Government House in Benin […]
*Allays Fear On Use Of Card Readers For Elections Olufemi Samuel, Abuja The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said It would recruit not less than1million ad-hoc staff for conduct of the 2019 general elections. The INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmud Yakub disclosed this during an interactive session with Senate Committee on INEC on Wednesday. The […]
A report from the National Bureau of Statistics, (NBS) has revealed that that 2.1 million Nigerians lost their jobs in 2016. The NBS said the number of Nigerians who became unemployed rose by 2.1 million to 11.55 million at the end of 2016 from 9.48 million at the beginning of the year. The body, in […]
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