JOB CREATION INNIGERIA
Hanafi Dele & Akintunde Patrick Adediran
Department of Economic
Oduduwa University, Ipetumodu, Ile-Ife, Osun
Email: bamidelehanafi@yahoo.com
Abstracts: This paper exposes the fundamental causes of unemployment in Nigeria since 90’s among the Nigeria graduates and various recommendations were made to solve the problems permanently. Some of identified problems that gave rise to unemployment challenges in Nigeria include the followings: overreliance on crude oil, total neglect of agriculture, solid minerals, constructions, telecommunications, sports, film production, entertainment, entrepreneurship, skill vocations, technological and technical, rural-urban migration, emphasis on white collar job, inconsistence consistence in the government policy and programs, production of half-baked graduate by our various higher institutions, Tourism, Job Creation Through Financial Services, Solid Minerals and Employment Generation, Trade policy and development for employment generation, Employment Generation Through Oil And Gas Sector etc. Recommendations were made as to how this problems or challenge can become a thing of the past in Nigeria. This include promotion of agricultural activities, exploitation of solid mineral, provision of infrastructural facilities in the rural area, production of qualities graduates in our institutions, emphasis on labour intensive policy, retire for those who are due for retirement, encouragement of entrepreneurship and vocational studies, loan to job seekers who are interested in settling up business, encouragement of technical and technological studies in the universities, encouragement of research and development in the universities, perceived injustice in the civil service, e.t.c.
Keywords: Unemployment, Inflation, Gross Domestic Product, Exploitation, Infrastructure
Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Hanafi Dele Ibrahim & Akintunde Patrick Adediran (2017), Job Creation inNigeria. J. of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Vol. 9, Number 4, Pp. 72-110