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Youth unemployment. Young people protesting about youth unemployment in Hamburg. Youth unemployment is a special case of unemployment; youth, here, meaning those between the ages of 15 and 24. [1] Young people have difficulties finding work, consistently different from those of the general workforce. They also are affected in distinct ways.
Youth in Nigeria[1] includes citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria aged 18–29 years according to the new-youth policy (2019). [2] However, the African youths [3] charter recognises youths as people between the age of 15 and 35. [4] Variance in chronologies are used in defining youth and are addressed by members of the state in ...
N-Power was created on 8 June 2016 to address the issues of youth unemployment and help increase social development. The scheme is created for unemployed graduates and non-graduates between the ages of 18 and 35. [1] [2] [3] It is a paid programme of a two-year duration, aimed at engaging beneficiaries in their states of residence. [4]
The National Social Investment Program of Nigeria is a social welfare initiative launched by the federal government of Nigeria in 2015. The program, overseen by the National Social Investment Office, aims to promote equitable resource distribution to vulnerable populations, such as children, youth, and women. Under President Muhammadu Buhari 's ...
The Nigerian Youth Parliament [1] (NYP), founded in 2008 under the administration of Umaru Musa Yar’adua [2] GCFR, is the body that oversees the activities of youths in Nigeria. By composition, it is a replica of the Red Chamber of the National Assembly , and as such, the Parliament is made up of 109 individuals representing all senatorial ...
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is a mandatory, post-tertiary scheme set up by the Nigerian government during the military regime of Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, to "reconstruct, reconcile and rebuild the country after the Nigerian Civil war". [1] There is no military conscription in Nigeria, but since 1973, graduates of universities ...
Youth unemployment levels vary from 53.6% in Eswatini and 52.3% in South Africa, to 3.3% in Rwanda in 2016. [11] As age within the working population increases, so do levels of employment, as youths are three times more likely to be unemployed than adults (aged 25 or over), which demonstrates an anti-youth bias across African labour markets. [12]
Urban youth unemployment for the roughly 100 million Chinese aged 16-24 spiked to 17.1% in July, a figure analysts say masks millions of rural unemployed. China suspended releasing youth jobless ...