A mass rally for the unemployed in Nigeria is ongoing at Nigeria Civil service Union, Alausa-Ikeja , Lagos.
The rally was organized by the Joint Action Front (JAF).
It is no longer news in Nigeria that over one million unemployed youths are readily applying for jobs where less than five thousand people are needed.
The country is in the verge of revolution which undoubtedly will be triggered by this terrible economic menace called unemployment.
Unemployment is a major challenge in Nigeria with the statistics bureau putting the figure at over 20% of the 160 million population.
Over 50% of the Nigerian youth population is unemployed. A recent survey puts the figure at 54%.
Nigeria’s spiralling youth unemployment can be said to have significantly contributed to the dramatic rise in social unrest and crime such as Niger Delta militancy, Boko Haram and the Jos crisis.
One implication of the above is that in another one to-two decades most of the youths of today will be parents in their mid-life years, and with little or no adequate skills in a fast emerging competitive global economy, it is doubtful how they can propel the needed wheel of development.
With pain and sorrow we recall the events happened on March 15 when 18 over 11,000 candidates craiving for recruitment flooded into the Nigeria Immigration Service in Minna, Niger State capital were claimed dead.
The rally was organized by the Joint Action Front (JAF).
It is no longer news in Nigeria that over one million unemployed youths are readily applying for jobs where less than five thousand people are needed.
The country is in the verge of revolution which undoubtedly will be triggered by this terrible economic menace called unemployment.
Unemployment is a major challenge in Nigeria with the statistics bureau putting the figure at over 20% of the 160 million population.
Over 50% of the Nigerian youth population is unemployed. A recent survey puts the figure at 54%.
Nigeria’s spiralling youth unemployment can be said to have significantly contributed to the dramatic rise in social unrest and crime such as Niger Delta militancy, Boko Haram and the Jos crisis.
One implication of the above is that in another one to-two decades most of the youths of today will be parents in their mid-life years, and with little or no adequate skills in a fast emerging competitive global economy, it is doubtful how they can propel the needed wheel of development.
With pain and sorrow we recall the events happened on March 15 when 18 over 11,000 candidates craiving for recruitment flooded into the Nigeria Immigration Service in Minna, Niger State capital were claimed dead.
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