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Unemployment, not corruption is Nigeria’s major problem –NBS
The National Bureau of Statistics has said unemployment is the major problem confronting the nation and not corruption as speculated.
The bureau stated that Nigerians believe that most problems the country was facing were driven by the high rate of joblessness and such problems could only be addressed if the government could tackle unemployment.
The Director, Real Sector and Household Statistics of the bureau, Isiaka Olanrewaju, made the disclosure while presenting key findings from the National Corruption Survey by NBS and other agencies of government on Wednesday in Abuja.
According to him, the survey conducted by the bureau on the percentage of Nigeria’s population who considered selected issues that were the most important problems affecting the country revealed that corruption did not emerge as the country’s major problem.
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Olanrewaju added that it was discovered that unemployment was mostly selected as the first problem in the list by Nigerian respondents.
“Apart from talking about the issue of bribery and corruption, we also had peoples’ opinion on what they think is the major problem arrange in Nigeria. And when we arranged them in order of mention, unemployment emerged as the number one.
“This is followed by high cost of living, and corruption came third,” he said.
According to the latest unemployment data obtained from the NBS, the nation’s unemployment rose from 7.5 percent in the first quarter of 2015 to a record-high of 18.8 percent in the third quarter of 2017.
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