While the sectors of the Nigerian economy that require less labour have been growing at a pace faster than their peers, the labour-intensive sectors with the potential to reduce the country’s 33.3 percent unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2020 have either been in recession or growing at a sluggish rate.
Fresh data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) that one out of five Nigerians lost their jobs in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic adds to the picture of the relentless misery in Africa’s largest economy.
Unemployment rate has only been recently tipped by Doyin Salami, who leads Presid
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