Issues · Economy
NBS reported youth unemployment in double digits across 2023–2025. Japa (mass emigration of professionals) intensified post-subsidy removal. Government countered with the Renewed Hope Job Creation strategy and ITF/SMEDAN programmes.
In Tinubu's words“We will create jobs not by accident, but by deliberate industrial policy.”
Renewed Hope Agenda, jobs chapter; 3MTT programme launch, October 2023.
Policy position
Direct job creation through public-works (highway/rail), digital-economy training (3MTT scheme: 3 million technical talents by 2027), and SME financing through BoI and NIRSAL. NYSC-linked entrepreneurship credit lines.
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