[size=15pt]80 per cent of Nigerian youths are jobless, says minister[/size]



MORE than 80 per cent of Nigerian youths are unemployed, the Minister of Youth Development, Akinlabi Olasunkanmi has said. He based his assertion on data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

Even the 10 per cent of the entire youth population on paid jobs are under-employed, the minister declared.
Olasunkanmi said the situation had contributed to the high incidence of criminality among youths in the country.

Olasunkanmi, who painted the pathetic plight of the country's youths, said: "According to the 2006 provisional census figure, Nigeria has a youth population of 80 million, or 60 per cent of her total population. Of this population, more than 80 per cent are unemployed while about 10 per cent are under-employed. Data made available by the National Manpower Board and the NBS indicate that only about 10 per cent of the graduates released into the labour market yearly by Nigerian universities and other tertiary institutions of learning are able to get paid employment."

source:http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/news/article05//indexn2_html?pdate=160708&ptitle=80%20per%20cent%20of%20Nigerian%20youths%20are%20jobless,%20says%20minister

this is absolutely pathetic

Well, it's nice that Minister Akinlabi Olasunkanmi can cite those numbers for us, but the most important question is, what is he and all his cohorts planning to do about it? These ministers run off all these statistics, figures, percentages etc to us all the time reminding us of the societal ills we experience but they never have a first step to a solution to the problem.

I'm sick and tired of this government failing our youths repeatedly! They have done them such a disservice,