[b]The NBS only started recording job data in 2013, and the figures that circulate publicly are conflicting, casting doubt on their reliability. Available evidence suggests that more than one million jobs have been created. But most have not been generated by the public sector.



In October 2014 Nigeria’s central bank governor, Godwin Emefiele, said 1.2-million jobs were created in 2013. About 91% of these were by the private sector, he said. A further 500,000 jobs were created in the first half of 2014, he added, with 40% as a result of business expansion.

But Nigeria’s finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala claims 1.6-million jobs were created in 2013.

Separately, the NBS said 2.48-million new jobs were created between July 2012 and June 2014. Around 1.41-million of those were in the informal sector. The formal sector created 903,804 jobs and public institutions 160,591. But “these statistics raise some methodological questions”, the World Bank’s Litwack said.

Government schemes have seen limited success. In April 2014, the finance minister said that the Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria scheme had created only 27,000 jobs. The Subsidy Reinvestments and Empowerment Programme, an internship setup, has reportedly created 120,000 jobs.

The Centre for Democracy and Development West Africa last year called these “grandiose white elephant projects”, adding that they “are not only inadequate in tackling the teeming unemployment but also fail to reach the end user.”

Nigerians seem as unconvinced by the statistics as ever. In a recent letter to the finance minister a forum of unemployed graduates demanded evidence for the existence of the purported new jobs. A central bank official said last year that 70% of Nigeria’s 80-million youths are unemployed.[/b]

– See more at: http://africacheck.org

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Maybe in his dreams....driver i'll come down.

Can TANiods post the list of people Jonathan gave those "millions" of new jobs.

If re-elected,i'l create 2million jobs annually-gej

Those jobs were created only at the FEC meeting.

They gave the jobs on paper. Last time I checked,those wo scream "GEJ till 2019 are still jobless.

YES jonathan created jons for ethnic militias viz: OPC, MASSOB, Niger Delta Militants etc

berem:
They gave the jobs on paper. Last time I checked,those wo scream "GEJ till 2019 are still jobless.

LOL...this got me ROTFL

berem:
They gave the jobs on paper. Last time I checked,those wo scream "GEJ till 2019 are still jobless.

Temitemi number one follow by severus snape.

It so funny how we hold this administration to ransom for not creating millions of jobs. What are we even thinking? Should govt create new ministries and parastatals just because she wants to employ everybody? The truth is govt can't do more than what they are doing now. The numbers of people on govt payroll is just insane. I wonder how we quickly we will progress if annually we continue to spend more than 80% of our budget on recurrent expenditure; bulk of which is on salaries and bonuses of civil servants.

The best way to go about it is having a vibrant private sector; that is manufacturally driven, built on enabling environment and solid policies. To the best of my knowledge this govt is trying on these areas.

Development is not a destination, but a process, and we are on the right track.

It's GEJtill2019. Shalom.

Last time I checked, I only confirmed d ones dey created in heaven and their dreams.
Meanwhile, I have decided to march4change.

He sure did;for the Tandroids,laptop army and the campaign ground thugs.

Lies from the pit of Hell !!!

Jona embrace CHANGE !!!

Nigerians and negativity sha. Why would anyone want to dispute the NBS, Okonjo Iweala and the CBN governor on what they know more than everyone else?