BY TUNDE OPALANA Nigeria’s ambition for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is being undermined by the country’s growing unemployment crisis, policy experts at Nextier have warned. In a new report titled Nigeria’s Waning Influence: Can the Giant of Africa Reclaim Its Diplomatic Might? analysts Olive Aniunoh and Khadijat Shuaibu argue […]
BY Ukpono Ukpong The Federal Government is committed to inclusive skills development, ensuring that every region benefits from the programme, as part of strategy to address unemployment directly. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi, disclosed this while receiving the Ona of Abaji and Chairman of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Council of […]
By Tunde Opalana The Federal Government will intensify efforts at reducing the alarming rat of unemployment in the country through calculated policies such as skill acquisition and development programmes. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammadu Dingyadi made the promise on Monday at the ministry’s budget defence session at the National Assembly. He told the […]
A financial economist, Prof. Uche Uwaleke, has faulted the methodology adopted by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), which puts Nigeria’s unemployment rate at 41 per cent in the first quarter of 2023. Uwaleke, who is the Director, Institute of Capital Market Studies, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on […]
By Joy Obakeye A non-governmental organization, Shun Unemployment Foundation, has trained 50 youths on a variety of skills through its project, U-TEN. The NGO has also empowered the graduating students with kits required to start up their businesses. The founder, Mayowa John Ajibodu, at the graduation ceremony, said, the foundation works with the graduates in […]
Joy Obakeye The organised labour has said that the unemployment situation in Nigeria is becoming a time bomb which, if not urgently addressed, would be a major determinant to achieveing the needed peace across the country. According to the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba, during the 40th anniversary celebration of […]
By Adewale Alani Opinion, Education remains the most important tool for behavioural reform and economic emancipation. It is not only a leveler in the society, it is the only legacy any parent or country can bequeath their children and citizens. The importance of education can never be overstretched. It covers everything. In fact, it is […]
By Odewale Abayomi The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), on Friday, August 14, 2020, released the statistics on unemployment for the second quarter (Q2) of 2020 after a long hiatus since the third quarter (Q3) of 2018. The percentage of unemployed people stands at 27.1 per cent. The last report which was released in 2018 […]
By Jerome-Mario Utomi At a time Nigerian youths were waiting patiently for the Federal Government to offer sustainable road map for restoring the health and vitality of the nation’s democracy, the Federal Government on 30th June, 2020, through the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, announced the commencement of […]
The newly public works programme launched in Ogun for the recruitment of 774,000 Nigerians has received PhD holders applications. READ ALSO: Drivers license fraud: ICPC arrests 25 FRSC, VIO officials The federal government had in July kicked off the special public works programme which is coordinated by the ministry of labour and employment. Daily Times gathered […]
By Ukpono Ukpong Trade Union Congress (TUC), the Civil Society Organisations (CSO) and concerned Nigerians have hit hard on the Federal Government following the recently released report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showing that 27.1 per cent of able-bodied and willing-to-work Nigerians were unemployed as at the second quarter of 2020. TUC President […]
Due to the coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria the rate of unemployment have increased, this was made known be the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which states that over 21.7 million Nigerians are now unemployed. According to its Labour Force Statistics report released on Monday, the number of unemployed Nigerians went from 20.93 in 2018 to […]
The federal government has reiterated its commitment to diversifying the country’s economy by leveraging digital platforms to increase revenue earnings and increasing employment opportunities for jobless Nigerians. Dr Kashifu Abdullahi, Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), made this known during a virtual stakeholders engagement workshop in Abuja on the Draft National Outsourcing […]
The European Union’s gross domestic product shrank 3.5 per cent in the first three months of the year, according to a first estimate from Eurostat, while eurozone unemployment climbed slightly in March to 7.4 per cent. The annual rate of inflation also plummeted to 0.4 per cent in the 19-member currency area in April, the […]
Spain’s unemployment rate rose for the first time in a year on Tuesday, as the reverberations from the Covid-19 pandemic begin to reveal themselves in the data of one of the world’s hardest hit countries. The unemployment rate rose to 14.4 per cent in the first quarter of the year, the National Statistics Institute reported, […]
German unemployment is set to rise by around 520,000 and exceed 3 million this year, the IAB labour market research institute said on Friday. The institute added that the coronavirus pandemic had put strain on the economy and more people out of work. In a research paper published on Friday, the institute said it expected […]
A further 4.4 million Americans sought unemployment benefits last week as the economic toll from the coronavirus pandemic continued to mount. The new applications brought the total number of jobless claims since mid-March to 26.4 million. That amounts to more than 15% of the US workforce. However, the most recent data marked the third week […]
Abuja – Alhaji Sabo Nanono, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development has urged Nigerians to focus more on agriculture being the largest employer of labour to reduce poverty and ensure food security. Nanono, who gave the advice in Abuja, added that “the sector has enormous opportunities’’. According to him, the only way the nation […]
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has urged Nigerians to leverage emerging digital capacities to curb the rising wave of unemployment in the country. Pantami said this when he recently met with the Abuja Chapter of the National Information Technology Reporters Association at a press briefing, noting that Nigeria will promote digitisation activities that will support e-health, […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lambasted the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for overstretching the limits of Nigerians by trivializing and politicizing the frightening unemployment level under its watch. In a statement on Sunday by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party warned the APC to prepare to face the consequences ahead of its fizzling […]