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Employment in Nigeria.


The International Labor Organization International Labor Organization (ILO), specialized agency of the United Nations, with headquarters in Geneva. It was created in 1919 by the Versailles Treaty and affiliated with the League of Nations until 1945, when it voted to sever ties with the League.  (ILO ILO
abbr.
International Labor Organization

Noun 1. ILO - the United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor
International Labor Organization, International Labour Organization
) is trying to do something about unemployment in Nigeria. The ILO says that 6.4-million Nigerians are looking for Looking for

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 work, which would make the unemployment rate there 4.7 percent. Unemployment statistics for Nigeria are hard to come by. Even the CIA's World Factbook will not provide an estimate.

Other sources of employment statistics for the country use either quite out-of-date information, or, like the CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency.


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, refuse to commit to a number.

The ILO's attempt to quantify the situation, therefore, appears to be suspect in the sense that it may be severely underestimating the problem.

In spite of the lack of information, the ILO is attempting to make some headway head·way  
n.
1. Forward movement or the rate of forward movement, especially of a ship.

2. Progress toward a goal.

3. The clear vertical space beneath a ceiling or archway; clearance.

4.
 with the current government. The ILO has asked the government to supply information about on its own planning, and the activities of the country's private employment agencies. Nigeria has subscribed to the ILO's National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategies, and the ILO wants an accounting from Nigeria on the implementation of the program's objectives.

The ILO has also asked the Nigerian government to remove certain worker categories from its essential services list so trade union conventions may be enforced.
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Publication:Market Africa Mid-East
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Date:Sep 1, 2005
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