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The print, electronic and social media have made the issue of unemployment, especially youth unemployment, a focus of every government across the globe today. It became so serious after the “Arab Spring” which was a reaction against regimes and governments that have perpetuated themselves against the wish of the people, and were insensitive to the astronomical rise in the number of unemployed youths and its negative consequences. Today, nations and governments are being called upon to make drastic decisions to initiate, implement, monitor, evaluate and scale up effective public policies and programmes with the aim of reducing the rate of unemployment especially among young graduates. But what are the causes of unemployment, especially graduate unemployment, in a country like Nigeria? And what can be done to reduce, if not eliminate, graduate unemployment in the country. A research paper titled, “Graduate Unemployment in Nigeria: Causes, Effects and Remedies”, written by Dr. Olu...

The Nigerian oil sector has been the bread winner of the Nigerian national economy following the abysmal decline in the agricultural sector and near extinction of the manufacturing sector. It contributes more than half of the total amount of Nigerians’ national income. Other sectors of the economy are either undeveloped, underdeveloped or ‘confused’ due to total ignorance, abandonment, negligence and declining investments thus contributing little or nothing to the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP). Operating a mono-economy, with little but failing efforts at diversification has created a rift between the oil producing states and the non-oil producing states of the country. Agitations for resource ownership and control by the oil-producing states have heightened tensions and its consequences over some decades now. The increasing activities of multi-national and trans-national oil companies in the oil-rich region have left it with severe social, economic and environmental cha...