Youth Perspectives On Wayout Of Unemployment Issue In Nigeria

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1     BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Nigeria, like most developing countries in the world is faced with myriad of problems such as poverty, terrorism, political instability and most importantly unemployment. In recent years, increased unemployment rate has affected many young school leavers who fall within the working age but have been denied job opportunities. Graduate unemployment in the words of Dabalen et al (2000), accounted for about 32% of the unemployed labor force between 1992 and 1997. This has compelled the Nigerian government as far back as the 1960s to start im…