Special Feature
YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT - Nigeria's Shame
Unless Africa trades with Africa and unless Africa invests in Africa, we're going to continue to be poor.
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Andrew Nevin, advisory partner & chief economist, PwC Nigeria
frica's most populous nation and largest economy have a youth unemployment problem. In Nigeria, nearly a quarter of the population is out of work and 20 percent
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is underemployed. For young people aged 15 to 35, the figures are grim: 55.4 percent of them are without work. Creating jobs has been one of the key issues discussed throughout the 2019 election campaign.
Being young in Nigeria is "very challenging", explains Andrew Nevin, advisory partner, and chief economist at PwC Nigeria. "Graduates from university have a great deal of difficulty in getting
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