Nigeria's High Unemployment Rate Among Youth

Millions of Nigerian youths are currently unemployed and most them don't possess a university degree.
  • Nigeria:   67 Million Local Youths Jobless - FG

    Leadership, 3 May 2012

    The minister of youth development, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, yesterday lamented the unemployment rate in the country, declaring that about 67million young people are jobless and… Read more »

A polling station in the Plateau State town of Shendam, was one of these youth corps members who had been giving his all for more than 14 hours in order to conduct a credible process at this particular station.

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