Nigeria: Massive Youth Unemployment, Threat to Nigeria's Future, Moghalu Warns

17 November 2017

A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Kingsley Moghalu has warned that the "monster of millions of young men and women with no jobs is a fundamental threat to Nigeria's future."

Moghalu, who gave the warning in a presentation titled: "The Challenge of Economic Growth in Nigeria," which he delivered at the fifth Goddy Jidenma Foundation public lectures in Lagos yesterday, however, pointed out that the challenge could be defeated with the requisite political will, economic know-how, and strategy.

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