The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Adewale Martins on Tuesday in Lagos described the 10.4 per cent unemployment rate in the country as disturbing.
Martins made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos while reacting to the 2006 to 2016 unemployment indices released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBC).
“Obviously that is extremely disturbing; 10.4 in a population like this, you are talking about 17 million; that is a lot in a nation like this especially for young people.
“It just means that our leaders need to take more responsibility in creating jobs, in creating an environment that is conducive for investment, in creating a situation that our people will be able to have confidence.
“We are actually hoping that with a new government in place things would change and we hope that government will take that in view.’’
NAN recalls that the unemployment rate increased to 10.4 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2015 from 9.90 per cent in the previous period.