Nigerian government employment scheme criticised

  • 11 years ago
Many Nigerians continue to struggle with unemployment despite government programmes to tackle the problem. A quarter of Nigeria's population is out of work and half of them are under the age of 24. The government's latest employment scheme is called YouWin, a business competition aimed at young entrepreneurs. In the second part of Al Jazeera's series on unemployment in Africa, Ahmed Idris reports from Abuja.