A
report published by the NBS reveals millions of jobs have been lost
under the watch of the All Progressives Congress chieftain, President
Muhammadu Buhari.
President Muhammadu Buhari
Approximately 5.5 million Nigerians have become unemployed in the
past two years of the current administration, figures from the National
Bureau of Statistics has revealed.
According to the latest unemployment report released by NBS,
351,015 Nigerians became unemployed in the last quarter of 2016,
bringing the total number of unemployed and underemployed persons to
28.58 million.
As at August 2016, 4.58 million Nigerians had become unemployed since the President Muhammadu Buhari administration took power.
That figured increased in the third quarter of 2016 to 5,134,913 as unemployment rate spiked to 13.9 percent.
But according to the latest NBS report, “In Q4 2016, the labour
force population (i.e. those within the working age population willing,
able and actively looking for work) increased to 81.15 million from
80.67 million in Q3 2016,representing an increase of 0.6% in the labour
force during the quarter”.
“This means about 482,689 persons from the economically active population entered the labour force during the quarter.
“During the reference period, the number of unemployed in the
labour force, increased by 351,015persons, resulting in an increase in
the national unemployment rate to 14.2% in Q4 2016, slightly up from
13.9% in Q3,13.3% in Q2, 12.1% in Q1 2016,and 10.4% in Q4 2015.
The Buhari administration promised to create millions of job in
2016, but NBS figures show that the jobs created could not match the
fresh entrants of the labour market.
It is worthy of note that 27.44 million persons within the
economically active or working age population decided not to work for
one reason or the other in Q4 2016.
There were a total of 28.58 million persons in the Nigerian labour
force in Q4 2016, that were either unemployed or underemployed compared
to compared to 27.12million in Q3, 26.06million in Q2 and24.5 million in
Q1 2016.
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