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From Bukola Amusan, Abuja

Director General of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Mr Samuel Adelodun has proposed that the mandatory one-year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) for graduates be extended to two years to reduce the menace of unemployment

Adelodun, who spoke in Abuja yesterday at the 9th series of the weekly Newsworld magazine leadership forum, said if this can be done, it would assist in engaging those that might turn out to be jobless graduate after their service year.

He said about 3, 334,139 Nigerians were currently unemployed with Kano State topping the list with about 369,139 unemployed persons. Lagos is second with a figure of 353,097 unemployed persons representing about 11.07 percent of the national total

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) recorded the lowest figure with 34,638 unemployed persons representing about 1.04 percent of the national total

Adelodun said the data collated from the exercise that was carried out in all the 8,812 wards of the 774 local governments of the country in July showed that there are more unemployed males than females in the country

"The sex distribution of registered unemployed persons indicated a significant disparity between males and females, nationally. 62.44 percent of the registered unemployed are males while 37.56 percent are females," he added

He noted that there were more unemployed females than males in Anambra, Bayelsa, Ekiti, Enugu and Osun states

Basing the data on geo-political zones, the DG said the North-West has the highest figure of 846,872 unemployed persons, followed by the South-West with 718,789 unemployed persons. The North Central zone recorded the lowest figure with 386,590 unemployed persons.

Adelodun, while disclosing that about 39 percent of the registered unemployed had been in such condition for the past five years, said about 74 percent of the registered unemployed persons are youths between 15 and 34 years

"About 74 percent of the registered unemployed persons are youths in the age bracket of 15 and 34 years, the adults between ages 35 and 44 represent about 17.24 percent while the elderly of aged 45 to 70 constitute about 9 per cent," he added.

Adelodun, who called on the government to improve the funding for the NDE job creation activities, urged the states to partner with the directorate in creating wealth for unemployed Nigerians.


North-West Highest In Unemployment – NDE Data


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Unemployment data analysis just released by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), has shown that the north-west geo-political zone of the country has the highest number of registered unemployed person.

Director-general of NDE, Dr. Samuel Adelodun who made this public yesterday in Abuja, said that a total of 3,334,089 unemployed persons were registered in all the 8,812 wards in the 774 local government areas across the 36 states of the federation and FCT, Abuja.

The north-west zone comprising of Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Jigawa states, Dr. Adelodun had recorded 846,872 registered unemployed person, which is equivalent to 24.40 per cent.

The south-west geo-political zone ranked unemployed persons representing 21.56 per cent.

The north-east and south-east geo-political zone posted third and fourth respectively, with corresponding percentage of 16.49 and 12.92 per cent respectively.

South-south and north-central geo-political zones brough the rear with 401,234 and 386,590 registered unemployed persons representing 12.03 and 11.60 per cent respectively.

Dr. Adelodun who was the guest of the Newsworld Magazine Leadership Forum said that the collation of the data held between June 25 and 29, this year.

Of the total registered unemployed persons 2,081,652 or 62.44 per cent are males, while 1,252,437 or 37.56 per cent are females.

Kano State according to the data has the highest number of registered unemployed person. The state grossed 369,139 persons or 11.07 per cent, while Lagos State was second with 353,097 persons or 10.59 per cent.

States with low registration of unemployed persons include FCT, Abuja with 34,638 or 1.04 per cent, Kwara with 35,009 or 1.1 per cent Zamfara with 36,729 or 1.1 per cent.

Classifying the age groups of the registered unemployment persons, Dr. Adelodun said that about 74 per cent of the registered unemployed persons are youths in the age bracket of 15-34 years. The adults (35-44 years) were 17.24 per cent, while the elderly (45-70 years) constitute about 9 per cent.

On the category of the unemployment, the data said that of the 3,334,089 registered unemployed, 2,960,734 or 88.8 per cent have never worked, while 373,355 or 11.2 per cent had worked but were retired or retrenched.

Ebonyi State has the highest number of those who never worked with 99.4 per cent, followed by Zamfara State with 96.7 per cent, Bauchi State with 96.6 per cent. The least is Benue State with 65.8 per cent.

3 million Nigerians unemployed!

Right, then I'm the Pope!!! Germany, a country of 82 million has around 5 million people unemployed and Nigeria, a nation of 140+ million has 3 million people unemployed. The country has no thriving middle class, the industries are not functioning, infrastructure is non-existent.

I think we all know that a whole load of nonsense. With the amount of graduates from the various Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Education and the rest of them without jobs, we have only 3 million people unemployed? Then Nigeria is doing really well

The NDE should do a proper survey and review their figures and I'm sure it will be found that the figures are significantly higher.

Can there be a lasting solution to reduce this figure? when, how .

proo212, that is a valid discussion, i was just about to say of course, Kano and Lagos will be in the lead because they have more population, but you actually grip unemployment and underemployment on a bigger scale. Kudos

adelodun's stats are fatally flawed. is he telling nigerians that only 0.02% of the population is unemployed? i think this is sickening. even the western countries can't boast of this unemployment percentage within the active workforce talk less of the entire population and talk even less of nigeria. the NDE has just branded itself a waste of tax payers' money. they better tell us what they have done to reduce the unemployment rate in the last 8yrs rather than beat their empty drums with useless figures.

"The sex distribution of registered unemployed persons indicated a significant disparity between males and females, nationally. 62.44 percent of the registered unemployed are males while 37.56 percent are females," he added

if more women choose the house-wife profession then the number of female looking for jobs will decrease and the number of vacancies for males will increase- Voila!!!

proo212:

3 million Nigerians unemployed!

Right, then I'm the Pope!!! Germany, a country of 82 million has around 5 million people unemployed and Nigeria, a nation of 140+ million has 3 million people unemployed. The country has no thriving middle class, the industries are not functioning, infrastructure is non-existent.

I think we all know that a whole load of nonsense. With the amount of graduates from the various Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Education and the rest of them without jobs, we have only 3 million people unemployed? Then Nigeria is doing really well

The NDE should do a proper survey and review their figures and I'm sure it will be found that the figures are significantly higher.

I agree. It seems more like half of the country fall under the unemployment bracket alone, to me. That stat is not near accurate.

For those figures to be anywhere near accurate, unemployed Nigerians will need to register themselves as unemployed.

Kobojunkie:


I agree. It seems more like half of the country fall under the unemployment bracket alone, to me. That stat is not near accurate.

Nothing is ever accurate in Nigeria. The census is fraudulent, everything has K-Leg. They are trying to slip another stinker past the gates. 3 Million. . . LOL (Not Lots Of Love, but LAUGHING OUT LOUD)