Tag: unemployment
Committee Blames Unemployment, Drug Abuse For Southern Kaduna Violence
The Gen. Martin Agwai-led Southern Kaduna Peace and Reconciliation Committee has urged the state government to evolve deliberate policies that…
Nigerians in S.Africa tell Buhari to tackle unemployment, insecurity
Some Nigerians resident in South Africa on Sunday urged the Federal Government to tackle insecurity, unemployment, epileptic power supply and…
Bad Economy: 50% Of Construction Workers Sacked – Fashola
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola says because of the bad economy in the country, 50 per cent of…
I’ll use agriculture to reduce unemployment, says Buhari
The Presidential Candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, pledged to invest in agriculture to tackle…
President Jonathan Is Evil, Says Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has taken another swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan, describing some of his actions as evil. Obasanjo…
UNIPORT moves to reduce unemployment by 24%
In a bid to reduce unemployment by 24 per cent, the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) is adapting its conventional…
Internet Is Solution To Nigeria’s Unemployment Problem
Dr. Ope Banwo, lawyer and Netpreneur speaks on the Internet as the new marketplace for commerce and industry and how…
Poverty And Unemployment In Nigeria: Recent Realities
Nigeria’s fortune over the years has been majorly roped on the performance of the oil sector. However, in recent times,…
FG needs to create 1.8mn jobs annually
The Minister of Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga, said in Lagos on Thursday that the Federal Government would generate at…
Grasscutter Farming: From Grass To Grace
By Prince Arinze Onebunne There is a saying that “if the going gets tough, only the though gets going” That…
Youth Unemployment In A Re-based Economy
By Chido Onumah A few days after the figures of Nigeria’s rebased GDP were made public last week, The Punch…
Nigerian Rebasing And The Making Of A Phantom Economy
By Peter Claver Oparah And so storm tossed and weather beaten Nigerians woke up on Saturday, 5 April to hear…
1.8m people enter job market annually- Okonjo-Iweala
Minister for Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has confirmed that not less than 1.8 million graduates in the country move into…
Deprivation In The Midst Of Plenty
By Akunna Ejim How shall we label this madness? Young people set forth from their residences with desperate hope -the…
Defuse This Time Bomb, Now!
By Ademola Adegbamigbe Among the Nigerian daily newspapers that published the photographs on their front pages, the caption by The…
Immigration Recruitment Tragedy
Unemployed Nigerian youths are an easy prey for the government to exploit nowadays. They are mostly hopeless and desperate; but…
APC governors vow to tackle unemployment
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Governors elected under the umbrella of All Progressives Congress (APC) today in Ibadan, capital of Oyo State identified…
Food Security: The Lagos Example
By Rasak Musbau It is very sad that with much potential to achieve agricultural success, streets in most parts of…
Unemployment: Animal Farming To The Rescue
Observers of Nigeria’s development trend will agree that the country is certainly sitting on a keg of gun powder which,…
Addressing Youth Unemployment In Nigeria
By Bilikis Bakare Besides insecurity and corruption in high places, unemployment remains one of the most critical problems the country…
My Manifesto For Anambra State
By Lawrence Chinedu Nwobu Frantz Fanon it was who said that “every generation must discover its mission, fulfil it or…
Seeking Refuge In God’s House
At a time of political and economic downturn in Nigeria, many citizens, especially the Christians, have decided to seek refuge…
‘Technical Education, Panacea For Nigeria’s Development’
Government at various levels have been advised to strengthen technical and vocational education in the country. This is to address…
Youth Unemployment, A Time Bomb
After spending five days in captivity, the Chairman of Ejigbo Local Council Development Authority, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan, finally regained his…
Can APC Cure Nigeria’s Headache? (2)
By Chido Onumah I have no illusions about the challenges (some of which are beginning to manifest) and limitations of…
Thousands rally against poverty in Portugal
Thousands of people on Saturday rallied in the streets of Lisbon to protest rising poverty resulting from the government’s belt-tightening…
Nigeria: 6776 applicants scramble for 200 jobs
To underscore the acute unemployment in Nigeria, no fewer than 6,776 job-seekers have been short-listed for 200 job positions at…
7 die as 34,000 scramble to fill 90 jobs
As in Nigeria, where hundreds of thousands apply to fill few vacancies, so it is in South Africa, where unemployment…
School Curriculum Blamed For Unemployment
The Secretary General, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ilorin branch, Mr Sulyman Abaya, says the present education curriculum is responsible for…
Government Not Doing Enough To Tackle Youth Unemployment
Ibrahim Abdullahi was senate president of the Children Parliament, Federal Republic of Nigeria from 2005 to 2007. During his tenure,…