Nigeria's official jobless rate looks enviably low. The reality is alarmingly different... When the National Bureau of Statistics announced that Nigeria's unemployment rate had fallen to 4.3% in the second quarter of 2024—down from 5.3% in Q1—the government could be forgiven a moment of self-
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