Out of the 88.9 million Nigerians in the country’s labour force, 71.2 million are self-employed, 12.96 are salary and wage earners, and the remaining 4.74 million are unemployed but looking for work. These statistics show that over 80 percent of Nigerians who can work have taken their future in
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