IamJames:
Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Statistician-General of the National Bureau of Statistics, Dr. Yemi Kale, to change the high unemployment statistics and reflect the rising rate of employment in the agriculture sector.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said this on Sunrise Daily, a programme on Channels Television.

Shehu said during a recent meeting with the Federal Executive Council, Kale admitted that the NBS was only focusing on the creation of white collar jobs and not the agriculture sector and the informal sector.

He said the President subsequently told him to go and admit his error to members of the public and make appropriate changes.

When asked why job losses were being recorded, Shehu said, “There was a departure last week. The NBS chief had addressed the federal cabinet and he made the admission himself that they had concentrated analysis over time on white collar jobs and they had not taken cognisance of job creation in areas of agriculture.

“Rice Producers Association of Nigeria made the open claim and nobody has challenged them up until the time that we speak, that they had created 12 million new jobs.

“When he finished addressing the federal cabinet last week, the government asked the DG of the NBS, go out there and tell the Nigerian public, you are just saying to us now that Jigawa, Zamfara, Kebbi and Ebonyi are recording the lowest unemployment rates in the country on account of agriculture.

“So, the point is that the data collected which has formed judgement on the data that have been passed and misleading and I think there is now a convergence. The data has been unfair to the administration, it had ignored job creation in the areas of agriculture but that is now being integrated and Nigerians will be impressed.”

However, a spokesman for the Abubakar Atiku Campaign Organisation, Mr. Phrank Shuaibu, who was on the programme, lambasted Shehu, accusing the Presidency of attempting to alter job statistics on the eve of elections.

Shuaibu said, “The National Bureau of Statics came for EFC meeting and according to the President’s spokesman, the man admitted that he miscalculated. That is an agency funded by government, not an agency sponsored by any international organisation.

“He has forgotten that this is not 1984. 2015 is not 1984. The world has gone digital but because they are operating an analogue system of government, they don’t know that even a 10-year-old can use the internet to find out statistics.

“When the NBS came out with the figures about loss of jobs and how it was affecting the economy, nobody came out to defend the government. But just as the certificate issue was managed, they have pushed the DG to the villa and obviously dictated to him what he should say.

“You cannot say that a government that is in power, the DG of NBS reeled out statistics, you did nothing to him, many months after and because elections are here, on the eve of elections, he is summoned to FEC and is asked to generate new figures. That is a fallacious tale and an affront on the sensibilities of Nigerians and they should apologise to us.”

Incidentally, the NBS has failed to release the statistics on unemployment for over a year, citing lack of funds as the reason.

However, the opposition has always insisted that the Presidency had ordered the agency not to release the figures until after elections.

https://punchng.com/buhari-has-asked-nbs-to-change-statistics-on-unemployment-rate-presidency/amp/

This is a big SHAME on the presidency...wow! I cannot just believe what I just read..can you imagine? Where is the 12m jobs na...Rice employment ke...haaaaaaa! APC! you guys can lie o! Election is around the corner and you are now directing that the unemployment figures should be changed..choi...this is the end of incompetence.....Buharist! You guys are not honest to your conscience at all...This is the president you all are breaking your head for abi? Imagine who does that..like seriously!

No matter what. It won't still change anything..the fact is that in 3.5 years , there was a collosal unemployment... Fact

EkoErrands:
In America...NFPR (Non Farm Payroll) is the critical indicator of how the job market is doing.

There is a reason the non farm sector is used instead of otherwise. In Nigeria na Farm Payroll them wan use for indices....Hausa Fulani mentality and hipocrisy mixed with conspiracy against 2019.

In America agriculture accounts for less than 1% of GDP unlike in Nigeria where it forms a larger proportion of the GDP and people employed especially in the rural areas, you can't compare both economies.

And they will say it's fake news when national dailies begin to read:

NBS UNDER PRESSURE TO COOK FIGURES

don't they know it is actions like this that cause fake news. By the way, how agriculture wey no fit impact GDP during APCheat regime wan take shore up employment statistics?

Bolster:
A whole lot of youths here will comment without reading the whole article after reading only the headline.

Some will comment after browsing through half way.

Another set will comment after reading without comprehensive comprehension.

Very few will make informed comments after reading and understanding.

The pathetic story of today's youths and tomorrow's leaders.

What did you get from the news? What's your own reasoning ...be objective for once and stop insulting the youths.

Yyeske:
In America agriculture accounts for less than 1% of GDP unlike in Nigeria where it forms a larger proportion of the GDP and people employed especially in the rural areas, you can't compare both economies.

So the rural areas will now give us 12m jobs? Haba....we are not kids na!

Doing this shows gross incompetence....lies! All in the bit to create a good record to win an election... No wonder Atiku is lambasting them left right and center

hisexcellency34:
My worry is " Will Buhari come for debate or not?

ahhhh...... You wan finis am, pesin wey no sabi even engrisc,
naim you want mak go do debate ni
chaiii ogbeni e no good oooo
mak you tak am small small with am oooo

Jowanson:


So the rural areas will now give us 12m jobs? Haba....we are not kids na!

Doing this shows gross incompetence....lies! All in the bit to create a good record to win an election... No wonder Atiku is lambasting them left right and center

[quote author=Bolster post=73933607]A whole lot of youths here will comment without reading the whole article after reading only the headline.

Some will comment after browsing through half way.

Another set will comment after reading without comprehensive comprehension.

Very few will make informed comments after reading and understanding.

The pathetic story of today's youths and tomorrow's leaders.

[What Garba shehu said is black and White..Mr integrity told them to change the figures to show that there is an imaginary increase in Jobs

A fool at 76 is a dullard till eternity

IamJames:
A president who had F9 in Mathematics is ordering NBS to go change figures just like that. Wonderful!

Does 12 million new rice producers actually mean Buhari created 12 million jobs?

If I go take up a small piece of land in my hometown and start farming, does it mean Buhari gave me or created a job for me?

Na question I ask ooo because ayam confuse

Your ignorance knows no bound. I am sure you haven't also heard about the policy that stimulated all of these: the Anchor Borrower's Scheme.

How come when you finish schooling and decide to idle away, feeling desclined to engaging in anything productive, people tend to blame the government as though they took your brain and made you jobless?

U mean he ask them to rig the statistics,father of kworobtion

IamJames:
A president who had F9 in Mathematics is ordering NBS to go change figures just like that. Wonderful!

Does 12 million new rice producers actually mean Buhari created 12 million jobs?

If I go take up a small piece of land in my hometown and start farming, does it mean Buhari gave me or created a job for me?

Na question I ask ooo because ayam confuse

don't behave like late terrorist nnamdi kanukanu
If private company go bankrupt as the result of the recklessness of the management and they decided to sack 50% of their workforce,
The children of late terrorist nnamdi kanu like you will blame buhari for their bankruptcy .

Im shocked at all the above comments (apart from a couple).
Is it that the youth cannot read before opening their mouth anymore?
They only read headlines and start talking trash.
The article said the statistics the NBC dished out is incorrect, this means it needs to be updated.
So what has buhari done by asking for the right thing to be done?
Many are indeed mad but few are roaming.

Hmmm... crossing a dangerous red line. It is like turning off your airbag, doing an odometer rollback or tampering with the sensors... thermostat of your prized auto... it may give you temporary mental relief then.... kaboom without warning. Statisticians like doctors are not to be toyed with by learned economists. They are completely apolitical and in some climes the entire department is not government appointed or controlled.

dexterinc2003:
Im shocked at all the above comments (apart from a couple).
Is it that the youth cannot read before opening their mouth anymore?
They only read headlines and start talking trash.
The article said the statistics the NBC dished out is incorrect, this means it needs to be updated.
So what has buhari done by asking for the right thing to be done?
Many are indeed mad but few are roaming.

No sir. The statistic is very correct. Statistics is statistics and has a very deep contextual premise, that is it is hinged on empirical historical data for the purpose of projections so the criteria must remain stable over time.

In a nutshell statistics is only useful in context, in comparison so apples have to be compared to apples. If data has been collected over the decades on 'white collar' jobs as the barometer of employment then it cannot suddenly change. What he can ask for is a new line of inquiry but this will be of limited use because it cannot be compared to anything previously except if agricultural employment data for example has been collected separately before.

This government cannot just wake up and adjust the bar or widen the goal posts simply because its strikers are impotent. And morally it low level corruption. And fundamentally it will not help Nigeria since the middle class remains the perfect barometer for determining economic productivity. We are not an agrarian, peasant, socialist society. Agriculture cannot propel our development. Our population is much too large for that. It can help us cut our bills and balance our books but it cannot prosper us singlehandedly.

It's all about the dullard nothing else.

Just look at how ignorant Buhari is about the way the economy works

When I say dumbohari is a crook, a thief, and a cretinous dullard, I mean it with every fibre in me.

If this daura is can reel up fake statistical figures, then he must be ordering the minister of economy to cook the book as he steal billions to buy bike for Yusuf and treat his intractable disease in the UK.

Dumbohari you are a thief with fake integrity and you are getting kicked back to gay cows in daura.

Reference:


No sir. The statistic is very correct. Statistics is statistics and has a very deep contextual premise, that is it is hinged on empirical historical data for the purpose of projections so the criteria must remain stable over time.

In a nutshell statistics is only useful in context, in comparison so apples have to be compared to apples. If data has been collected over the decades on 'white collar' jobs as the barometer of employment then it cannot suddenly change. What he can ask for is a new line of inquiry but this will be of limited use because it cannot be compared to anything previously except if agricultural employment data for example has been collected separately before.

This government cannot just wake up and adjust the bar or widen the goal posts simply because its strikers are impotent. And morally it low level corruption. And fundamentally it will not help Nigeria since the middle class remains the perfect barometer for determining economic productivity. We are not an agrarian, peasant, socialist society. Agriculture cannot propel our development. Our population is much too large for that. It can help us cut our bills and balance our books but it cannot prosper us singlehandedly.

why you get sense like this ??... Buhari still thinks we are in the 60s or 70s where we must plant food to eat especially in this technological times we live in and with so much resources in the country.. meanwhile the old malam is neck deep In crude oil production in the niger delta.. hypocritical fool of a president

It is just Like Trump telling us office of statistics his to do their job......APC is dictatorial in ramifications...

I don't need someone to tell me that the figure is not accurate before I will know. Is it that agriculture does not form part of economy or people working in the farm were not part of working class? Anybody saying those two factors should not be part of job creation is mad and don't know what he /she is saying. People working on construction site should also be part of job creation. I have said it before that people are getting the issue of job loss wrongly. The construction works were going on in all the 36 states including abj massively, far more than the previous government and some people will come here and be talking of job loss more than jonathan regime in this government. NBS should go and do the correct thing.

Shehu Garba is the next information minister under Atiku. Watch

Reference:


No sir. The statistic is very correct. Statistics is statistics and has a very deep contextual premise, that is it is hinged on empirical historical data for the purpose of projections so the criteria must remain stable over time.

In a nutshell statistics is only useful in context, in comparison so apples have to be compared to apples. If data has been collected over the decades on 'white collar' jobs as the barometer of employment then it cannot suddenly change. What he can ask for is a new line of inquiry but this will be of limited use because it cannot be compared to anything previously except if agricultural employment data for example has been collected separately before.

This government cannot just wake up and adjust the bar or widen the goal posts simply because its strikers are impotent. And morally it low level corruption. And fundamentally it will not help Nigeria since the middle class remains the perfect barometer for determining economic productivity. We are not an agrarian, peasant, socialist society. Agriculture cannot propel our development. Our population is much too large for that. It can help us cut our bills and balance our books but it cannot prosper us singlehandedly.

you said agriculture can't propel our development because our population is far more than it? Son we should rely on importation of foods and other agricultural commodity? People in the farm should leave their farm and come to the city to add to over congestion of the city or those in the farm should die of hunger? How do you think revenue will increase or we should continue depending on oil? I am not understanding this your Cambridge economic solution. You can please enlighten me more.

IamJames:
A president who had F9 in Mathematics is ordering NBS to go change figures just like that. Wonderful!

Does 12 million new rice producers actually mean Buhari created 12 million jobs?

If I go take up a small piece of land in my hometown and start farming, does it mean Buhari gave me or created a job for me?

Na question I ask ooo because ayam confuse

If you are employed by a bank or any private organisation, does it mean that Buhari gives you the job?

NO if you could get the job through your competence and experience in the midst of adverse economy and YES if the government could bring out some micro and macro economic policies that will encourage the banks and other private sector to absorb the job seeking graduates


If you could create a job in a sector of economy on your own, let's say Rice production, it is perhaps because of some conscious governmental efforts directed to change the human behavior and mentality towards agrictural sector. Some of the efforts embarked by this government are

Embargo on foreign rice importation. This has driven many individuals and some states into local production of rice

Massive creation of awareness of the need or benefits of localized production

Availability of funds or loans to youth channeled to motivate them into agricultural sector of the economy. Here, the government has not, may be, done enough awareness about it. But still I have heard some people enjoying this loan privilege.

IamJames:
A president who had F9 in Mathematics is ordering NBS to go change figures just like that. Wonderful!

Does 12 million new rice producers actually mean Buhari created 12 million jobs?

If I go take up a small piece of land in my hometown and start farming, does it mean Buhari gave me or created a job for me?

Na question I ask ooo because ayam confuse

Well done sir, where has your A1 in Mathematics taken you to in life?

Do you know that someone like you can't be a leader because you don't have respect for those ahead of you.

Tareq1105:






Well done sir, where has your A1 in Mathematics taken you to in life?

Do you know that someone like you can't be a leader because you don't have respect for those ahead of you.

Mr leader we've seen you and where it has gotten you to.

Mylove55:
don't behave like late terrorist nnamdi kanukanu
If private company go bankrupt as the result of the recklessness of the management and they decided to sack 50% of their workforce,
The children of late terrorist nnamdi kanu like you will blame buhari for their bankruptcy .

Hahahaha... This guy or babe is so hilarious.

You want him to doctor the statistical record of this nation?that's horrible o!

The NBS boss should kuku say that no one is unemployed in nigeria to save his job. 12 millions were employed in four states out of 36 states in nigeria. We know who to vote for this govt should stop deceiving themselves.

And when you think you have experienced the worst form of absurdities under this unfortunate APC government, another crazy one will still emerge from them!!
Do these re.tards even understand the implications of what they are doing to this country??
How can a so called government spokesman come out openly and so unabashedly tell the whole world how they just ordered the head of a very sensitive agency to go and doctor figures!!!
Even if they are so desperate, where is the wisdom in telling the world how figures are arbitrarily churned out by order and not based on real life statistics and facts!!!
OMG, this is so unbelievable and even the likes of IDI Amin Dada and Abacha regimes weren't this crazy and stvpid.


ANYBODY STILL SUPPORTING THESE VAMPIRES NEED TO HAVE THEIR HEAD REEXAMINED!!

dodoniyi:



If you are employed by a bank or any private organisation, does it mean that Buhari gives you the job?

NO if you could get the job through your competence and experience in the midst of adverse economy and YES if the government could bring out some micro and macro economic policies that will encourage the banks and other private sector to absorb the job seeking graduates


If you could create a job in a sector of economy on your own, let's say Rice production, it is perhaps because of some conscious governmental efforts directed to change the human behavior and mentality towards agrictural sector. Some of the efforts embarked by this government are

Embargo on foreign rice importation. This has driven many individuals and some states into local production of rice

Massive creation of awareness of the need or benefits of localized production

Availability of funds or loans to youth channeled to motivate them into agricultural sector of the economy. Here, the government has not, may be, done enough awareness about it. But still I have heard some people enjoying this loan privilege.

In as much as this govt is trying but the efforts so far can be rated 20percent for lack of effectiveness in changing the standard of living of Nigerians, and so we need a new govt to try their best this time as we can no more in this precarious economic condition of the nation.