Imo, Adamawa and Cross River States recorded over 50 per cent unemployment rates, a shocking indictment on their political leaderships.

Imo State had the highest percentage of unemployed people in Nigeria in the fourth quarter of 2020, retaining a position it held in the second quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics said in its latest labour force report.

Imo was followed by Adamawa and Cross River States. The three states recorded 56.6 per cent, 54.9 per cent and 53.7 per cent unemployment rates respectively. Yobe, Akwa Ibom and Rivers completed the top six.

At more than half the total number of the economically active populations, the rates reveal a shocking degree of unemployment in a country that suffered two recessions in the last five years.

They also show that growth and improvements in people-centred policies at the subnational level of government have been mostly insignificant.

Imo led the pack in the second quarter, with Akwa Ibom and Rivers following. Their rates then were much lower at 48.7 per cent, 45.2 and 43.7 per cent respectively.

Trailing the three states at that time were Delta with 40.3 per cent; Kaduna, 39.8 per cent; and Taraba 39.4 per cent. Abia was the seventh-highest.

While Kaduna, Delta and Taraba improved by the fourth quarter, Imo, Akwa Ibom and Rivers remained in the top six, joined this time by Adamawa, Cross River and Yobe.

The states with the lowest rates were Osun, Benue and Zamfara. They recorded 11.66 per cent, 11.98 per cent and 12.99 per cent respectively.

Wealth Crisis

The Nigerian economy has faced a lingering crisis for years with inflation reaching a four-year high in February 2021.

The coronavirus pandemic that hit in 2020, slashing the country’s oil revenue and leading to businesses shutting down and laying off workers, made the situation worse.

The government predicted an unemployment rate of 33.6 per cent by the end of the year if something urgent was not done. The bureau of statistics said on Monday the national unemployment rate stood at 33.3 per cent in the fourth quarter, just a bit lower than the forecast.

Imo, Akwa Ibom and Rivers are amongst the country’s richest states, benefitting from monthly oil derivation revenues that should give the three states relative advantage.

However, unemployment and poverty rates in those states have for years been consistently amongst the nation’s highest, an indictment on a political leadership that pays scant attention to real human capital development.

A May 2020 report by the NBS showed that in 2019 Rivers earned N140 billion, making it the second state with highest earning of internally generated revenue behind Lagos, the commercial capital of the country.

Delta was listed as the fifth-highest and Kaduna the sixth, earning N64 billion and N44 billion respectively. Akwa Ibom was on a distant 8th with N32 billion.

SOURCE: Unemployment: Imo, Akwa Ibom, Rivers Still Nigeria’s Worst Cases - PREMIUM TIMES www.nairaland.com/attachments/13249327_externallinkaltsolid_png8648541bff077cf12ea8b17dbf1b4fc0

come to Niger state, Niger state is the only state in Nigeria that the government has not done recruitment or commission any project since assuming office, I dare any nigerlite to debate with me on this one...a very useless dull governor that cannot even speak good English, nonsense ingredients

IPOB miscreants right now " We will never forgive Tinubu for this underdevelopment"

Akwa Ibom and Rivers states are not supposed to appear on that list first 25 states.

These two states are so rich that in one state, the governor donates money to other states up to N500m in one instance.

In the second state, a company like Julius Berger tars their village roads.

These people are not creative enough about employment generation or don't just care about the youths of this country.

Hmmmmmm

They said you are a scammer. Have you clear your damage name from the op.

AlhajiBitcoin:
Akwa Ibom and Rivers states are not supposed to appear on that list first 25 states.

These two states are so rich that in one state, the governor donates money to other states up to N500m in one instance.

In the second state, a company like Julius Berger tars their village roads.

These people are not creative enough about employment generation or don't just care about the youths of this country.

Most Imo graduates work outside Imo state including in fellow South Eastern states. Many travel outside the country and also contribute their quota in the billions of dollars remitted to Nigeria annually! There are no big markets in Imo per se. Folks prefer education more. The reason we top jamb every year! The only thing a governor in Imo state can do to quickly create jobs in such environment is to take the radical step of setting up a fund with about 50% of the budgeted income.., liase with a serious bank and use that as some sort of counterpart funding for anybody willing to start up any big or small scale industry in the state. In doing so, attempts should be made to get imo industrialists with huge investments outside the state to think home a bit. Likewise investors from neighboring state..

The same approach should be used with successful imolites outside the country. Help with provisions of land and reduction of taxes and disturbances by touts. Industrial growth targeted could be in agro related aress, in the healthcare industry or in households equipment production. In nearby markets outside Imo state, Imo citizens dominate the drugs and household import business. Imo government has to calibrate a method of helping them transition into domestic producers leveraging on their many years experience in these sectors. Pursued vigorously, in about a decade, this plan can help reduce unemployment with both direct and indirect employments, since it will be a bit cheaper for local industrialists to invest back home...

NBS again?

Next.

There is no stat Wale Yemi will release without smuggling Osun on top and when you visit the said Osun you will start to wonder.

uptimum123:
IPOB miscreants right now " We will never forgive Tinubu for this underdevelopment"

Oponu, so the many Agberos and touts in the streets and on the roads of lagos State are also classified as employed?



Your asslicking and zombieism knows no seasons.


You people from the west now consider a roadside tout as being gainfully employed? Little wonder Tinubu will always place touts ahead of educated people as part of his Eko mega city initiative.

What a mentality!

What a tribe...

uptimum123:
IPOB miscreants right now " We will never forgive Tinubu for this underdevelopment"

Imo state was amongst the best governed states in the 80s under Dee Mbakwe! You can go and check! You were not born then, I know, but you can still learn if you can stop being uncouth! Buhari organized a coup that upstaged the Mbakwes, the Jakandes and the Solomon Lars of this world in 1983. He said he was fighting corruption! Who announced the coup? Abacha! Who did he appoint the Chief of Army staff after? Babangida! Two of the most corrupt officers ever produced by the Nigerian army! These were the men of "honor", the shining colossus that Buhari came with to fight corruption!! He hasn't apologized for that up till this day!

Almost 3 decades later, Hushcobar Tinubu in his vaulting ambition to become the president of the country, went to the land of the dead, exhumed a dead body, injected it with fresh blood and christened it "The Messiah"! Together with tribal urchins like you and inebriated partizan hacks, he managed to crown this eyesore a president! This president fired a supreme court Cheif justice and imposed his "hunter bag" carrying brother as the new supreme Court Justice! That was how Tanko juggled the law to impose one out of sort Uzodinmma as the governor of Imo state! Uzodinmma is there as we speak, ruining and running down the state as he was instructed to do by Abuja! When he's done, you will be here as usual, to blame the long suffering people of Imo state! Obviously, You are not called an online hoodlum for nothing..

StoneColdStun:

Oponu, so the many Agberos and touts in the streets and on the roads of lagos State are also classified as employed?



Your asslicking and zombieism knows no seasons.


You people from the west now consider a roadside tout as being gainfully employed? Little wonder Tinubu will always place touts ahead of educated people as part of his Eko mega city initiative.

What a mentality!

What a tribe...

I know your already frustrated with the underdevelopment in your states to the extent your contemplating on taking the next trailer load to Lagos but shame won't let you...this Lagos your talking shit of is the heaven your people are trooping in to every minute to come hawk Gala and Yoghurt.

Try dey get shame small small

uptimum123:



I know your already frustrated with the underdevelopment in your states to the extent your contemplating on taking the next trailer load to Lagos but shame won't let you...this Lagos your talking shit of is the heaven your people are trooping in to every minute to come hawk Gala and Yoghurt.

Try dey get shame small small

The same Lagos that 95% of your youths constitute into nuisance on a daily basis. A state where Touts and Agberos can be seen on virtually every road and street. Even the highbrow areas of Lagos are dominated by Agberos. This is the reason why the Lagos State government passed a bill into law that states that touts and Agberos will be liable to 21 yrs imprisonment. If you continue this way, I bet, you will be among the first batch that will visit Kirikiri maximum security prison.

Rugaria:


Imo state was amongst the best governed states in the 80s under Dee Mbakwe! You can go and check! You were not born then, I know, but you can still learn if you can stop being uncouth! Buhari organized a coup that upstaged the Mbakwes, the Jakandes and the Solomon Lars of this world in 1983. He said he was fighting corruption! Who announced the coup? Abacha! Who did he appoint the Chief of Army staff after? Babangida! Two of the most corrupt officers ever produced by the Nigerian army! These were the men of "honor", the shining colossus that Buhari came with to fight corruption!! He hasn't apologized for that up till this day!

Almost 3 decades later, Hushcobar Tinubu in his vaulting ambition to become the president of the country, went to the land of the dead, exhumed a dead body, injected it with fresh blood and christened it "The Messiah"! Together with tribal urchins like you and inebriated partizan hacks, he managed to crown this eyesore a president! This president fired a supreme court Cheif justice and imposed his "hunter bag" carrying brother as the new supreme Court Justice! That was how Tanko juggled the law to impose one out of sort Uzodinmma as the governor of Imo state! Uzodinmma is there as we speak, ruining and running down the state as he was instructed to do by Abuja! When he's done, you will be here as usual, to blame the long suffering people of Imo state! Obviously, You are not called an online hoodlum for nothing..

Enough of this shenanigans....

Tinubu this Buhari that... What were you guys known for in the past. You wonder why your lord and saviour Ojukwu went to war for a Biafra nation. Pick ten people from your region and ask them who's the cause of their underdevelopment, Nine will say it's Tinubu.

Your leaders continues to brainwash you people and it so appalling to see that in this 21 century you guys are still falling for their crookedness.

It's time for y'all to wake up

StoneColdStun:

The same Lagos that 95% of your youths constitute into nuisance on a daily basis. A state where Touts and Agberos can be seen on virtually every road and street. Even the highbrow areas of Lagos are dominated by Agberos. This is the reason why the Lagos State government passed a bill into law that states that touts and Agberos will be liable to 21 yrs imprisonment. If you continue this way, I bet, you will be among the first batch that will visit Kirikiri maximum security prison.

The bill signed into law was for Cultism and it's no news that your people are well represented there.

Stop misleading Nairalanders

uptimum123:


Enough of this shenanigans....

Tinubu this Buhari that... What were you guys known for in the past. You wonder why your lord and saviour Ojukwu went to war for a Biafra nation. Pick ten people from your region and ask them who's the cause of their underdevelopment, Nine will say it's Tinubu.

Your leaders continues to brainwash you people and it so appalling to see that in this 21 century you guys are still falling for their crookedness.

It's time for y'all to wake up

You are typing from Benin republic IDP camp..
That's the dividends of Tinubus brand of ewedu and Amala politics..
Yet you are a rampaging foot soldier..
Maybe you need to save yourself from the "brainwashing" first before castigating others..

Rugaria:


You are typing from Benin republic IDP camp..
That's the dividends of Tinubus brand of ewedu and Amala politics..
Yet you are a rampaging foot soldier..
Maybe you need to save yourself from the "brainwashing" first before castigating others..

You should pray to have a leader like Tinubu in your region so y'all can start enjoying dividends of democracy

uptimum123:



You should pray to have a leader like Tinubu in your region so y'all can start enjoying dividends of democracy

Hushcobar Tinubu, you mean!?
Oshogbo, Akure, Abeokuta, are they part of those enjoying Tinubus patented brand of chop-i-chop democratic dividends? Or does it begin and end in Lagos?

Hmm

What about the north

Seen and noted

When states like Akwa Ibom and Rivers feature on a list like this, then it speaks volumes of the type of leadership we have.

My far IMO AT THE WORST AGAIN

Hmm
List can never be complete without the north
North is responsible for all unwanted statistics in this country
-Poverty
-Unemployment
-Crime, killings
-Infant mortality
E.t.c

Buhari is doing well o jare

Which is why prostitution and arm robbery is high in this state. But wait ashawo nobi work? Just asking to know