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Declare state of emergency on unemployment, says union
Concerned over the alarming rate of unemployment in the country, the President of Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI), Comrade Oyinkansola Olasanoye, has called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on unemployment.
Speaking with The Nation, Comrade Olasanoye said the rate of unemployment was alarming, pointing out that statistics by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed that over 27 million Nigerian youths were unemployed, while over 70 million people were under-employed.
According to Olasanoye, the number is more than Ghana’s population and that of Benin Republic.
The Nation, August 25, 2017
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Abeni Adebisi
August 25, 2017 at 11:10 am
May God least thia group. If the federal government can be reasonable enough, they will know the amount of unemployed and underemployed people are more than those who are employed. How Is Nigeria going to be a better place when there’s no job to do?
Animashaun Ayodeji
August 25, 2017 at 11:14 am
It hasn’t not gotten to the state of emergency! Nigerian security are talented and very creative, they should set up jobs and employ more people. We can’t all depend on government for everything.
Anita Kingsley
August 25, 2017 at 11:16 am
Can anyone who doesn’t have capital set up any business? Nobody is ready to support, that’s the major problem. Nigerians are ready to start their own business but they don’t get support from financial institutions and they don’t have the capital also. This country is finished.
yanju omotodun
August 25, 2017 at 11:50 am
Then, it’s simple now, tell your Banks to establish more Banks branches and recruit more unemployed youths, the onus is not on the federal government alone, it’s a private -public partnership.
JOHNSON PETER
August 25, 2017 at 4:24 pm
The government has more roles to play than private sectors
JOHNSON PETER
August 25, 2017 at 4:26 pm
Create more employment opportunities for graduates because it’s becoming unbecoming for graduates to stay idle after years in higher institutions and yet more students are going to higher institutions to scramble for the no vacancies, what do we do?
Balarabe musa
August 25, 2017 at 4:39 pm
Don’t worry, the government is not paying deaf ears to the situation of unemployment in Nigeria. This is why baba buhari deem it fit to introduce N power and he has tried and still trying, 10,000 police officers were recruited, civil service recruited as well and immigration is going, military recruited and many more is coming to reduce the spate of unemployment in Nigeria. Let’s be patient.