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The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) says high unemployment rate portends grave danger for the country. National President of NACCIMA, Saratu Aliyu stated this Thursday at the…

Nigeria unemployment rate to reach 33.5 per cent by 2020, says the Federal Government. Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, said this while declaring open a two-day workshop on “Breaking the Resilience of High…

Morocco’s unemployment rate dropped to 9.8 per cent in 2018 from 10.2 per cent in 2017 with services topping job creating sectors, the planning agency said on Tuesday. The agency said in Rabat that the economy created 112,000 jobs last…

U.S. unemployment fell to 3.7 per cent in September, which is its lowest figure in nearly half a century. Job gains were registered in the fields of professional and business services, health care, transportation and warehousing, the…

Nigeria's 18.8 percent unemployment rate is the third highest in the world, behind South Africa's 27 percent and Greece's 20.9 percent. The National Bureau of Statistics said in its latest report on “Unemployment and Under Employment…

Data from the National Bureau of Statistics has shown that more than 4 million Nigerians lost their jobs between January and September 2017. Analyses of the data showed that the number of people that lost their jobs rose from 11.92 million…

The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has admitted to having sleepless nights because ofthe spate of unemployment in the country. Okonjo-Iweala said this while inspecting an…