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Showing posts with label unemployment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unemployment. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Nigeria: The paradox of wealth and unemployment


TO say it is much easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a competent graduate to secure employment in Nigeria is undeniably saying the gospel truth. Despite the arrays of opportunities that abound in the country, it is very disheartening that the nation’s unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world’s labour ranking. There have, of course, been startling media reports about mass number of job applicants in the last one year and the paucity of available jobs often placed on advertisements. 


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