The Federal Government (FG) has rolled out plans to tackle unemployment across Nigeria through technical skills. To achieve the FG's ambition, the Minister of Youth Development, Mr Ayodele Olawande, has said he will initiate digital literacy programmes, technical skills empowerment and leadership insight to address unemployment. Olawande made this pledge at the commemoration of the…

A year of war in Gaza has caused unprecedented and wide-ranging devastation of the labour market and wider economy across the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).

The North-East Development Commission (NEDC) has flagged off an initiative to reduce unemployment in the six states of the region.

        The Federal Government has unveiled the National Youth Skills Programme (NYSP), a transformative initiative aimed at addressing youths unemployment and equipping them with essential skills for the future. READ ALSO:FG to submit backlog reports on child rights to UN, AU – Nwaobiala   Dr Jamila Ibrahim, Minister of Youth Development, spoke at the…

The Minister of Youth Development, Dr. Jamila Bio Ibrahim, has expressed worry over Nigeria's current youth unemployment rate which stands at approximately 42.5 percent. The Minister who made this observation while receiving stakeholders from various organisations during a youth skills stakeholder consultative dialogue held in her office in Abuja, noted that the staggering figure underscores…

A Nigerian national, Yomi Jones Olayeye, also known as "Sabbie," was arrested in New York on August 13, 2024, for allegedly conspiring to fraudulently obtain $10 million in COVID-19 unemployment benefits. The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts under the Department of Justice revealed this in a statement posted on its website…

South Africa's jobless rate rose to a near record in the second quarter of 2024, continuing a trend that has seen the number of unemployed people grow by more than 60 percent in ten years, official data showed Tuesday. The unemployment rate hit 33.5 percent between April and June, up by 0.6 percentage point from…

Britain's unemployment rate has unexpectedly dropped to 4.2 percent and wage growth has slowed to the lowest level in nearly two years, official data showed Tuesday. The unemployment rate for the second quarter compared with 4.4 percent in the three months to the end of May, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a…

Nigeria through the Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy is hoping to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) to cut rising unemployment in the country.

Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo, a prominent good governance advocate and populist politician, has criticised President Bola Tinubu's administration for its extravagant spending amidst widespread hunger and suffering among the masses. Ajadi, a Southwest chieftain of the New Nigeria People's Party (NNPP), voiced his concerns in a release on Sunday, 4 August 2024. He described the president's…

In a bid to tackle the persistent issue of unemployment among graduates from tertiary institutions in Nigeria, a Nigerian Researcher-cum-Author, Dr. Benjamin Onoriode Irikefe, has fashioned out implementable blueprints aimed at bridging the gap between academic training and the job market. These strategies are encapsulated in his latest book, “Handbook for the Generation and Impartation…

US job growth blew past estimates in May while unemployment also edged up, according to government data released Friday, underscoring the labor market's resilience as policymakers seek to cool the economy gradually.