Chairman, Senate Committee on
Environment and Ecology, Senator
Bukola Saraki, has urged the federal
government to declare a state of
emergency on unemployment among
youths in the country.
Saraki, who represents Kwara Central
senatorial district in at the National
Assembly, stated this in Ilorin
yesterday, at a one-day technical
summit for unemployed youths in Kwara
State entitled: ‘Youths Unemployment in
Kwara State, The Way Forward’.
According to him, “Despite all the
persisting unemployment problem, there
is much we can do and we need to take
our destiny in our hands and proffer
solutions because the boys and girls that
are unemployed are Nigerians.”
He said: “There is every need to extend
the declaration of state of emergency to
youths’ unemployment. We have done it
in the power and water sectors among
others and it has worked out well.”
Saraki, who is also the immediate past
governor of Kwara State, said:
“According to the National Population
Commission (NPC), youths account for 65
per cent of the Nigerian population and
23.9 per cent of the unemployment rate
in Nigeria.
“In comparison to other countries like
Brazil, which has a working population
of over 130 million and unemployment
rate of around 14 per cent and South
Africa with a population of over 52
million has unemployment of almost 40
per cent.
“In Kwara State, the current
unemployment rate is nine per cent, the
second lowest in the country. There
cannot be any stability, peaceful
environment and prosperity of any sort
with this level of youth unemployment.”
The lawmaker, however, emphasised on
entrepreneurship promotion as the new
trend particularly to address the
challenges related to alarming high
youth unemployment rate.
“It also offers pathways for young
people to overcome the problem of
unemployment. I am of the view that
special attention must paid to social
entrepreneurship mode which should be
infused in the real economy closer to the
youth within local environment,” Saraki
said.
Environment and Ecology, Senator
Bukola Saraki, has urged the federal
government to declare a state of
emergency on unemployment among
youths in the country.
Saraki, who represents Kwara Central
senatorial district in at the National
Assembly, stated this in Ilorin
yesterday, at a one-day technical
summit for unemployed youths in Kwara
State entitled: ‘Youths Unemployment in
Kwara State, The Way Forward’.
According to him, “Despite all the
persisting unemployment problem, there
is much we can do and we need to take
our destiny in our hands and proffer
solutions because the boys and girls that
are unemployed are Nigerians.”
He said: “There is every need to extend
the declaration of state of emergency to
youths’ unemployment. We have done it
in the power and water sectors among
others and it has worked out well.”
Saraki, who is also the immediate past
governor of Kwara State, said:
“According to the National Population
Commission (NPC), youths account for 65
per cent of the Nigerian population and
23.9 per cent of the unemployment rate
in Nigeria.
“In comparison to other countries like
Brazil, which has a working population
of over 130 million and unemployment
rate of around 14 per cent and South
Africa with a population of over 52
million has unemployment of almost 40
per cent.
“In Kwara State, the current
unemployment rate is nine per cent, the
second lowest in the country. There
cannot be any stability, peaceful
environment and prosperity of any sort
with this level of youth unemployment.”
The lawmaker, however, emphasised on
entrepreneurship promotion as the new
trend particularly to address the
challenges related to alarming high
youth unemployment rate.
“It also offers pathways for young
people to overcome the problem of
unemployment. I am of the view that
special attention must paid to social
entrepreneurship mode which should be
infused in the real economy closer to the
youth within local environment,” Saraki
said.
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