The Nigeria public space lately has been awash with comments and opinions on the scary statistics of the unemployment figure released by the National Bureau for Statistics (NBS). Quite a number of comments settled on successive failures of the political leadership in developing the right vision and proper planning to expand the system for increased economic activities to absorb the growing population of youth unemployment and the social vices it breeds. Though the figure released by NBS made distinction between underemployment and unemployment but it is worth noting that the strain of their respective effects on the social system are indistinguishable.
As such, their combine effects run through the system, breeding frustration, restlessness and despondency which in turn predispose the affected class to unwholesome activities that are criminal in nature. The sudden attraction and spread of kidnapping, armed robbery, ritual killing and cultism among the youth are not…
