Tackling unemployment in Nigeria
By CNBC
05 July 2017 |
10:52 am
According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria's unemployment rate rose to 14.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016 from 13.9 percent in the third quarter of 2016.
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