Nigeria: When Unemployed Youths Besieged Alausa for Police Job

12 July 2010

It's no longer news that there are millions of unemployed graduates, mainly the youths, in Nigeria who are walking aimlessly in search of whatever means of livelihood. Nigeria probably has the highest number of unemployed graduates in the world, which has contributed to social ills like youth restiveness in the Niger Delta and armed robbery.

The Federal Government had sometime last year informed that about 40 million Nigerian youths out of about 140 million of the country's population were currently unemployed. The figure, according to the then Labour Minister, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, came courtesy of the World Bank.

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