UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS IMPLICATION ON THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: THE ROLE OF THE MASS MEDIA
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Unemployment, National Development, Mass MediaAbstract
This paper focuses on unemployment as one of the biggest problem confronting Nigeria nation today and its development. It is the root cause of poverty, youth restiveness, gangsters, bank robbery, kidnapping, assassination, and other sort of deviant behavior. The unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labor force. As at March 29, 2015, the unemployment rate of the country was 23.90%. One of the stringent issues in Nigeria is unemployment. These create stunt growth and development in Nigeria economy. Despite the devastating effects of unemployment, the mass media still gives hope for securing a job or creating one for the populace. The mass media tries in its own little way to curb unemployment in Nigeria to develop the economic life of Nigerian citizens. The paper concluded, saying that the nation must see youth unemployment as a monster that is debilitating our collective being. Instead of amassing military arsenal on kidnappers and bank robbers, should fight their root-cause which is youth unemployment.
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