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Socio-Political Implications of Youth Unemployment on Nigeriaâ€™s Economic Development

Authors: NWOGWUGWU Ngozi

Publication Type: Journal article

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Youth unemployment may be regarded as one of the major problems confronting the Nigerian state presently. Unemployed youths feel alienated from the society and have a total distrust of the political system. A personâ€™s job beyond providing for daily subsistence also determines the individualâ€™s social status, affecting relationship with peers, people in the personâ€™s neighborhood as well as extended family members. The paper a desk research, relied entirely on secondary data, sourced from scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles, relevant published books, materials downloaded from the internet, as well as government and institutional publications. In this paper, we argue that high level of youth unemployment in both urban and rural areas in Nigeria has generated a situation of acute social and political unrest. The frustrated youths have become aggressive in making themselves available to be used by politicians who are not sure of winning the peopleâ€™s mandate during general election. These politicians pay them to engage in anti-democratic process activities, including pre- election, election-day and post election violence. Some youths engage in various criminal activities that frustrate economic development of the state. We recommend that government should put in place social welfare programmes that attend to the needs of unemployed youths, provide the enabling environment for private investors to establish industries that will employ the youths as well as introduce the fiscal policies that will make banks to provide soft loans to the youths who have entrepreneurial skills.

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NWOGWUGWU,N. . (0000). Socio-Political Implications of Youth Unemployment on Nigeriaâ€™s Economic Development , 0 (), 0-0.

NWOGWUGWU,N. . "Socio-Political Implications of Youth Unemployment on Nigeriaâ€™s Economic Development " 0, no (), (0000): 0-0.

NWOGWUGWU,N. and . (0000). Socio-Political Implications of Youth Unemployment on Nigeriaâ€™s Economic Development , 0 (), pp0-0.

NWOGWUGWUN, . Socio-Political Implications of Youth Unemployment on Nigeriaâ€™s Economic Development . 0000, 0 ():0-0.

NWOGWUGWU,Ngozi , . "Socio-Political Implications of Youth Unemployment on Nigeriaâ€™s Economic Development ", 0 . (0000) : 0-0.

N.Ngozi , "Socio-Political Implications of Youth Unemployment on Nigeriaâ€™s Economic Development " vol.0, no., pp. 0-0, 0000.

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