Nigeria’s youth unemployment rate at 53.4%? Cryptocurrency firm goes wrong
According to Pioneers, one in two Nigerian youths is unemployed. But the company mangled the claim by using outdated sources.
According to Pioneers, one in two Nigerian youths is unemployed. But the company mangled the claim by using outdated sources.
In August, a spate of media reports brought bad news for Nigerians – that they now had the highest unemployment rate in the world.
An online publication claims there are more than 15 million Nigerians in the diaspora who send home about US$25 billion every year. We fact-...
In celebration of 60 years of Independence President Buhari made a number of claims in his address, we looked into these claims.
World Bank uses outdated stats as it announces US$500 million in funding to help educate girls in Nigeria
Prominent economist and former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, said the government’s debt burden had made the country broke.
Former Nigeria vice president Atiku Abubakar recently criticised the current administration’s plan to borrow nearly US$6.9 billion.
Dr Obadiah Mailafia, a former deputy governor of the central bank, claimed that youth unemployment in Nigeria is ‘almost getting to 70%’.
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