International Journal of Academic Multidisciplinary Research (IJAMR)
  Year: 2022 | Volume: 6 | Issue: 2 | Page No.: 142-152
Job Creation Strategies of the Goodluck Jonathan Administration (2011 - 2015) and Unemployment in Nigeria Download PDF
Onyemaobi, Promise C. & Okafor, Jude C. PhD

Abstract:
Unemployment and job creation have been a serious contemporary problem affecting developing countries, Nigeria inclusive, despite their administrative, natural, and human resources potentials to provide job opportunities to the masses. This study therefore deals with impact of job creation strategies on unemployment in Nigeria: a case study of Jonathan administration (2011-2015). The research is a descriptive study. The study found out that job creation strategies of SURE-P, YOU-WIN and YESSO have impacted on unemployment problem in Nigeria. It also discovered problems that reduces the level of its success such as corruption, inadequate patronage by local industries from Nigerians. To improve upon this, the study recommends among others that government should increase in management of graduate internship scheme (SURE-P) and the National Youths Corp program (NYSC) should become a one-year entrepreneurial training program for all graduate who will pass out to create jobs for themselves and avoid searching for jobs that are not there.