Buhari : Youth unemployment extremely dangerous for Nigeria

President Muahammdu Buhari on Saturday evening admitted that the current figure of unemployed youths in Nigeria is extremely dangerous for the country.

Shehu quoted the President as decrying a situation in which 60 percent of the country’s 64 percent youth population was unemployed...


“This (youth unemployment rate) is extremely dangerous for our country,” Buhari reportedly told his guests.

To stem the tide, the President said the revival of industries will get his administration’s attention the moment he finishes with the preparation of the 2016 budget.

“Very soon, we will sit down to see how we can rehabilitate industries. We are meeting after the budget to see how to revive industry and secure the economy. We will do this in order to clear the problem of unemployment,” he said.

The President explained that the insecurity in the North-East, abduction for ransom in the South and the sabotage of the oil industry in the delta region have one connection or the other with poverty and unemployment.

The delegation was led to the President by the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Ghanashyam, and it included a number of retired Indian army generals who were course-mates of the President.