The Nigeria Labour Congress has described unemployment as a time bomb, adding that if not urgently addressed by the Federal Government, it will be difficult for the nation to have peace.
The President, Nigeria Labour Congress, AyubaWabba, said this during the 40th-anniversary celebration of the Labour Writers Association of Nigeria.
He said with what was happening today, the organisedlabour needed more collaboration and sensitisation of every worker to be able to be on the same page and address some of the ills.
On his part, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said the Buhari-led administration had maintained a calm industrial environment.
Ngige, who was represented by the Special Adviser on Media, NwachukwuObidiwe, said the current regime had in six years and five months been very effective in job creation despite the inherited socioeconomic downturn.
He said Nigeria with a growing population always have hundreds of thousands of youths graduating into the labour market yearly.
