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Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by Saskay44(op): 9:50pm On Jun 25, 2025
A country of 200 million people and the top employer employs 20k person compared to us employers

Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by culf: 10:10pm On Jun 25, 2025
This is a lie! They should review their stuffs abeg
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by Starhearts: 5:01am On Jun 26, 2025
E dey my mind..

Wetin concerned me with the Wetin wey no concern me
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by Mindlog: 5:02am On Jun 26, 2025
culf:
This is a lie! They should review their stuffs abeg
Give the "correct" data, if you actually have any to share.
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by samogo1: 5:03am On Jun 26, 2025
So only banks are the highest employers. We have enough natural resources for industrialization but no good roads and no electricity to attract investors. We keep supporting politicians for their selfish reasons everytime.
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by Antidoteee: 5:03am On Jun 26, 2025
That means FG sef no employ reach 3k

Shame shame shame
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by OluwatobiJoshua: 5:03am On Jun 26, 2025
Where is Sumal/Yale in this analysis, unless you are talking about employers with more than average pay.
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by mainkendo: 5:05am On Jun 26, 2025
Chai. Isn't it pathetic that the banks employs more in this country? What does that show us as a country
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by grandstar(m): 5:05am On Jun 26, 2025
Starhearts:
E dey my mind..

Wetin concerned me with the Wetin wey no concern me
Where's Walmart in the list? They employ about 1m workers.

It is bizarre thar NNPC is not only the list.
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by bukiah: 5:07am On Jun 26, 2025
It's a lie. Teaching is the greatest employer of labour.
Period
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by greenermodels: 5:09am On Jun 26, 2025
Read the attached note, this is their global staff strength, they don't employ UpTo that number of people in Nigeria alone.
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by chinchum(m): 5:09am On Jun 26, 2025
OluwatobiJoshua:
Where is Sumal/Yale in this analysis, unless you are talking about employers with more than average pay.
ISn't Sumal only in Oyo state, Ibadan, they are also not listed on the stock exhange market as the Op's list tend to suggest. I doubt they have up to 2000 employees.
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by 234GT(m): 5:10am On Jun 26, 2025
bukiah:
It's a lie. Teaching is the greatest employer of labour.
Period
Not industry, but single entity employer. No single school can employer the numbers quoted above.
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by ICANLecturer(m): 5:19am On Jun 26, 2025
Unemployment in this country is real
Don't be surprised that almost 50% of each top employer's employees are underemployed.

This is the reason why we urge as many as possible to be self-employed
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by ppogba: 5:20am On Jun 26, 2025
OluwatobiJoshua:
Where is Sumal/Yale in this analysis, unless you are talking about employers with more than average pay.
Majority of Sumal and Yale staff are contract staff. Neither of them can boast of 3000 staff members.
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by Authoreety: 5:22am On Jun 26, 2025
Apart from dangote and flour mills , the rest are banks....

all, privately owned



naija, which way
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by MarketDispatch: 5:23am On Jun 26, 2025
Saskay44:
A country of 200 million people and the top employer employs 20k person compared to us employers
This data is wrong.
In USA you compared direct employees...in Nigeria you just mentioned Dangote. Compare orange for orange. Direct employees, contract , etc
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by OluwatobiJoshua: 5:24am On Jun 26, 2025
chinchum:
ISn't Sumal only in Oyo state, Ibadan, they are also not listed on the stock exhange market as the Op's list tend to suggest. I doubt they have up to 2000 employees.
They have more than. They have up to 10 plant in Oyo and a shift has roughly like 3'000 personnel with 3 shift per day, that's about 9k to 10k. Trust me if Sumal should stop operation today, it will tell on the state govt as most Youth will be jobless in Ibadan metropolis to be precise.

Sometimes last year, there was a protest in SUMAL, the whole city felt it.
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by thesicilian: 5:24am On Jun 26, 2025
Antidoteee:
That means FG sef no employ reach 3k

Shame shame shame
The data captures only "listed" companies. The government is not listed.
Maybe the title should have been "Top 10 largest private employers of labour in Nigeria."
The federal government has over a million staff on its payroll. Even Lagos state government alone self employs over a hundred thousand.
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by Imperare: 5:24am On Jun 26, 2025
Don’t get it twisted. All these banks are up there because they fire their staff both new and old at will. Anytime any day
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by wellmax(m): 5:37am On Jun 26, 2025
culf:
This is a lie! They should review their stuffs abeg
Give us the truth with your own data oga basket mouth.
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by APOPTOSIS:
In a country where BANKS are the biggest employers 😭😭😭😭😭 shows there's a fundamental problem with manufacturing.
Such a terrible scenario.

Here is the major reason most graduates end up as Political Thugs, Bankers, Marketers in Banks, Teachers in primary schools, Ponzi scheme hopefuls & Pentecostal Pastors.
Same pattern every year.
No innovation.
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by NairaLikes: 5:45am On Jun 26, 2025
Here lies exactly the problem of Nigeria, we produce graduates every here with no entreprenuerial skills. Ask your self who gonna create jobs for the yearly thousands of graduates? It is not the work of the government alone.
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by Kimo21(m): 5:46am On Jun 26, 2025
culf:
This is a lie! They should review their stuffs abeg
How is this a lie? Currently banks are employing people because there is shortage of staff…not all bankers stay in the banking sector for long…some leave after a while making banks always in need to get staff for understaffed branches
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by dominique(mod): 5:50am On Jun 26, 2025
Not even one telecoms company with offices and customer care centers everywhere? It seems they're excluding contract staff because I'm dead sure that MTN has more staff than stannic IBTC but majority of them are contract staff
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by theophorus(m): 5:52am On Jun 26, 2025
You mean say na Banking sector full that list, Chai!

No manufacturing except Dangote wen dey play with Politicians.
Walahi we need do more in manufacturing ooo.
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by TheStranger: 5:53am On Jun 26, 2025
Zenith Bank Lagos Branch or in the federation? Zenith Bank employs more than 7k in southern region alone na. Which kind 'oluyole' statistics be this?
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by autoez: 5:53am On Jun 26, 2025
The fact is we need many more of these kinds of companies. Just that
Re: Top 10 Largest Employers Of Labour In Nigeria by Freetech: 5:55am On Jun 26, 2025
This is not true

In Nigeria of today, church is the highest employer of labour
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