The
education sector, particularly the private segment, dominated economic
activity, generating most of the jobs in Nigeria’s formal sector in the first
nine months of the year, but this comes amid widening concerns on the declining
standards of learning across the country and the spill-over of poorly skilled
manpower in the market place.
The
Education and Manufacturing sectors generated the most jobs in both the first
and second quarters of 2014, figures from the National Bureau of Statistics
show.
Education
came first, with 23,643 jobs or 31.10% of the total in Q1, increasing by 5,417
or 22.91% to 29,060 new jobs in the second quarter, 36.90% of the total,
In
the third quarter, 21,154 additional jobs were generated in the sector, also
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