Unemployment

March 04, (THEWILL) — The World Bank has cautioned that Nigeria and many other developing economies may be heading toward a significant employment crisis as demographic pressures intensify over the next decade. Demographic trends show that about 1.2 billion...

April 01, (THEWILL) - The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Topfaith University, Dr. Emmanuel Abraham, has emphasised the importance of integrating entrepreneurial skills into the curriculum of tertiary institutions in Nigeria and the world over to enable students to...

December 24, (THEWILL) - The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that Nigeria unemployment rate rose to 4.2 percent in the second quarter of 2023, under its new labour methodology survey. The bureau said this in its Nigeria Labour...

December 21, (THEWILL) - The unemployment rate in Nigeria increased to 4.2 per cent in Q2 2023 from the 4.1 per cent recorded in Q1 2023, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Thursday, in its report on...

November 26, (THEWILL) - The Services sector has remained the driver of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in recent times, amid worsening unemployment rate. Nigeria’s unemployment rate stood at 34 percent in 2022. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)...

November 05, (THEWILL) - The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote, on Thursday commissioned the corporate Head Office and Training Academy of the hospitality conglomerate, Genesis Group Limited, in Port...

September 24, (THEWILL) - President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been urged to tap into the benefits of the Igbo apprenticeship system in order to tackle the scourge of youth unemployment in Nigeria. Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines Limited, Prof. Obiora...

September 03, (THEWILL) - I read quite a few commentaries that are dismissive of the new methodology which dropped Nigeria’s unemployment rate to 4.1 per cent. But I think we should understand that there are merits and demerits....

July 19, (THEWILL) - The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, urged President Bola Tinubu to lift the embargo on employment in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government. This prayer followed a motion moved at plenary on Wednesday,...