Challenges confronting National Directorate of Employment in Job Creation in Southwestern, Nigeria

Abstract

Unemployment has become a major problem bedeviling the lives of Nigerian youths causing frustration, dejection, and dependency on family members and friends, who also have their lots of problems to grapple with. The piercing rate of unemployment among the youths in Nigeria has contributed to the high rate of heinous practices such as militancy, Boko Haram insurgence, drug trafficking, kidnapping, armed robbery, prostitution, smuggling, and insecurity of all kinds. Thus, productive and decent job creation is a vital means of income and security. However, curbing unemployment becomes crucial to achieving inclusive growth in Nigeria by creating a largely mutual chance for to everyone be employable in the agricultural, manufacturing, and industrial sectors of the economy. To create self-dependency and gainful employment that can lead to inclusive growth in Nigeria, certain governmental programmes and policies were inaugurated such as the introduction of vocational courses in the educational curriculum in 1997, the creation of the National Directorate of Employment in 1986 solely for skills acquisition; industrialization programmes and policies; the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy designed in 2004 with one of its goals tuned towards fighting unemployment and the Agricultural programmes and policies geared at generating employment for graduates, non-graduates and school leavers in the Agricultural sector coupled with election promises (Abada et al, 2021). Despite these measures, the unemployment rate has not declined rather it continues to rise.