Tag: Unemployment
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“World’s Highest Unemployment Rate: Time to help this government, help Nigeria – Atiku
I have never felt so bad at being proven right, as I am by the report from Bloomberg Business on Saturday, March 27, 2021 that Nigeria is to emerge as the nation with the highest unemployment rate on Earth, at just over 33%. We warned about this, but repeated warnings by myself and other patriots…
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Alarming! Nigeria’s unemployment rate jumps to 33.5%, world’s second highest
Nigeria’s unemployment rate has jumped from 27.1% in the second quarter of 2020 to 33.5% in fourth quarter of the same year, Nigeria Bureau of Statics said. NBS, in the report published on its website, put the underemployment rate at 22.8% in Q4 2020 (28.6% in Q2 2020) while the total of unemployment and underemployment…
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COVID-19: 50 percent of world’s pilots now unemployed
More than half of the world’s airline pilots, including those in Nigeria, are no longer flying airplanes, according to the first worldwide survey of the profession since the outbreak of the COVID – 19 pandemic. The pandemic, according to the survey, has pushed pilots to consider other ways and means of earning a living. The…
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Unemployment: Akwa Ibom Governor cries foul of NBS rating
Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has challenged the protocols and parameters used by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to arrive at the conclusion that the State was the second largest in terms of unemployment. Emmanuel, in an interactive session with Akwa ibom people in Uyo on Sunday, asked that he should be…
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Nigeria’s unemployment rate increases to 27.1% -NBS
The National Bureau of Statistics has released statistics on the country’s unemployment rate. The bureau of statistics noted that after a 20-month interval, the unemployment rate rose to 27.1 per cent in the second quarter of 2020 from the 23.1 per cent recorded in Q3 2018. The NBS made this known via its ‘Labor…
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Pay stipends to unemployed Nigerians, Senate tells FG
The Nigerian Senate has urged Federal and state governments to declare state of emergency on the rising cases of unemployment in the country. The Senate also asked the federal government to initiate a sustainable unemployment fund to pay stipends to Nigerians who could not secure employment. his was part of the senate resolutions after consideration…
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How slash in lawmakers’ jumbo pay can reduce unemployment – Kukah
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Dr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, says no fewer than 76, 000 Nigerian youths stand the chance of getting gainfully employed if only members of the National Assembly can agree to a reduction of their salaries and allowances by half. Kukah made the projection on Friday while speaking at the 3rd annual…
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Akwa Ibom, Rivers top states with highest unemployment rate in Q3 2018 – NBS
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Akwa Ibom reported the highest unemployment rate of 37.7 per cent in third quarter 2018. NBS said this in its Labour Force Statistics – Volume 2: Unemployment and Underemployment by State for Third Quarter, 2018 posted on its website. The bureau said that Rivers was the second highest…
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Nigeria in dire need of skillful youths to address unemployment challenges – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said that Nigeria at this point requires the youths to be highly skillful in order to solve the problem of unemployment, security and youth restiveness. The President, who was a Visitor at the 31st Convocation ceremony of the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), stated that the era of handing…