•NLC President, Joe Ajaero The Nigerian Labour Congress has described the drop in Nigeria’s unemployment rate released in a report by the National Bureau of Statistics yesterday as fiction, stressing that it contradicts reality. The NLC’s position was corroborated by the Organised Private Sector, with the OPS stating that the report was not re...
South Africa’s unemployment rate decreased for the first time this year, dropping to 32.1 per cent in the third quarter, down from 33.5 per cent in the previous quarter, the country’s official statistics agency reported today. Africa’s largest and most industrialised economy has for years struggled with high unemployment, with women and youth ...
Nigeria’s unemployment rate grew by 1.2 percentage points to 5.3 percent year-on-year, YoY, to 5.3 percent in the first quarter of 2024 (Q1’24) from 4.1 percent in Q1’23. The National Bureau of Statistics,NBS, disclosed this today in its Nigeria Labour Force Survey Report. The bureau said: “The unemployment rate for Q1 2024 was 5.3%, showing [...
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