80% Of Nigerian Youths Are Unemployed – CBN Official Posted by Michael Akins Jun 6th, 2014 The Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday brought to the front burner the issue of youth unemployment in the country as it said 80 per cent of Nigerian youths are without jobs. This is despite repeated figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics indicating that the Nigerian economy had been creating millions of jobs in the past years. Only last week, the NBS stated that the economy created about 1.2 million jobs in 2013 fiscal year. But the Special Assistant on Sustainable Banking, CBN, Dr. Aisha Mahmood, disclosed that unemployment remains a severe threat to Nigeria’s economy. Mahmood spoke while delivering a paper on Nigerian Sustainable Banking Principle during the 2014 World Environment Day programme organised by the Federal Ministry of Environment in Abuja. She said, “As the population is growing, the resources that we all depend on, the food, energy,...
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