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Latest unemployment figures coming from the office of the National Bureau of Statistics have indicated that Nigeria’s unemployment rate now stands at 23.1 per cent, up from the previous rate of 18.8 per cent released in Q3 of 2017.
Partime employment/underemployment remains at to 20.1% in Q3 2018 from 21.2% in Q3 2017.
Although there was a marginal increase in the number of people employed from to 69.09 million in Q3 2017 to 69.54 million in Q3 2018, the total number of people unemployed upped from 17.6 million in Q4 2017 to 20.9 million in Q3 2018.
