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Nigeria’s unemployment rate rose to 12.1 per cent, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, said last Friday. According to the bureau, between December 2015 and March 2016, the population of unemployed Nigerians increased by 518,000 to over 1.45 million.
Yet, the economy is in recession. Companies are closing down while those managing to stay afloat are downsizing.
Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps ( NYSC) Brig. Gen. Sule Zakari Kazaure, now has an advise for youths.
On NTA’s TuesdayLive last night, he said white collar jobs were no longer available. He advised youths to pay more attention to skill acquisition programmes