A new report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has put Nigeria’s unemployment rate 27.1 per cent, in second quarter of 2020, up from the 23.1 per cent recorded in third quarter, 2018.
In its Labour Force Statistics: Abridged Labour Force Survey Under Covid-19, the statistics bureau stated that underemployment rate increased from 20.1 per cent in Q3, 2018 to 28.6 per cent.
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