SOLUTIONS TO YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
IN NIGERIA
First the Nigeria Government must play its
constitutional role by creating enabling socioeconomic
and political environment including the
provision of infrastructure to make industrial climate
investment friendly. This will encourage investors to
invest and there by create jobs in order to absorb the
unemployed youths. Recently, the minister of Youth
Development, Senator Akinlabi Olasunkanmi
undertook a facility tour of the eight standard Youth
Development Centers being constructed by the
Nigerian Government across the country. A pet
project that will massively equip the youth with
useful trade and entrepreneurial skills in Automobile,
Agricultural production and processing, integrated
science clinic, computer and information technology
among other. Nigeria and Africa with massive natural
and mineral resources is important and strategic
members of the global community that needed
understanding, patience, and support towards the
socio-economic development of the continent.
According to Ayinde (2008), the implementation of