Out of Nigeria’s 78.5 million economically active people, 38.2 million (48.7 percent), less than half, are women, according to the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
At the end of June 2016, 10.5 million people, representing 13.3 percent of Nigeria’s labour force, were unemployed, as against
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Oyinkan Adewale
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