Nigeria Economy Society – Unemployment, job creation top agenda

Unemployment, poverty reduction and job creation, especially among the youth in the country, is expected to be the main focus of the Nigeria Economy Society (NES) conference which kicks off today in Abuja, the president of the group, Professor Akin Iwayemi has said.

Addressing newsmen yesterday in Abuja ahead of the 53th Annual NES conference, the president said that the most troubling aspect of Nigeria’s unemployment is the massive educated jobless youth who wasted a lot of resources in the course of their trainings without decent jobs.

He said that the massive joblessness among the youth in the country has become a source of concern which prompted the association to shift its focus on this year’s conference to youth unemployment and poverty reduction.

“We want to look at the issue fundamentally and proffer solutions to them. Unemployment can trigger youth restiveness and threaten political stability of the country. Look at the number of youth that participated in the fuel subsidy protest all because of joblessness,” he said…

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