Over 15m Nigerians searching for job, FG confesses

The federal government has expressed serious concerns over the rising rate of unemployment in this country, saying that over 15 million Nigerians are looking for white collar jobs.

Minister of labour and employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, who expressed his concern in an interview with some journalists in Enugu said government was worried by the increasing rate of unemployment in the country.

He stressed that unemployment is growing into a very vicious disease condition that has given rise to a lot of anti-social behaviour like stealing,arm robbery,ritual,kidnapping among others which will later lead this Nation to a greater disaster in the nearest future if not adequately taken care of.