According to Nigeria’s #1job site – jobs.delon.ng, Nigeria’s minister of labour in December 2019 was quoted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NANS) as follows in December 2019“…it is projected that the unemployment rate for this country will reach 33.5 per cent by 2020, with consequences that are better imagined, if the trend is not urgently reversed.” This statement was made at a time the federal government could not have imagined a COVID-19 pandemic.As of today – 23 May 2020, that number may actually be close to 50 per cent.In our interview session today, I will be discussing job challenges in Nigeria during and after COVID-19with the author of a leading book on…
Source: Nigerian Tribune
