It blamed the development on lack of skills acquisition and advised the unemployed to go for skills acquisition instead of depending on white collar job.
ITF said what the report indicated is that although government efforts to creating jobs may be having impact, the number of unemployed is still on the rise. The Director-General, ITF, Joseph Arii, who spoke during an interface with stakeholders on strategies for job creation by the government in Abuja, said President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has made tremendous efforts to create jobs as could be seen in the number of people employed as cited by the NBS report.He said: “Today, across the length and breadth of the country are visible evidence of government’s efforts to get Nigerians engaged.