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Lagos: drugs, firearms and youth unemployment are creating a lethal cocktail in Nigeria’s commercial capital

Lagos: drugs, firearms and youth unemployment are creating a lethal cocktail in Nigeria’s commercial capital

LAGOS is the most populous city in Africa and a regional economic giant, having West Africa’s busiest seaport. It is the centre of commercial and economic activities in Nigeria. The city’s population is estimated to be 20 million people. The existence of informal settlements makes it difficult to come up with a more precise number. ADEWUMI I. BADIORA, Senior Lecturer, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Olabisi Onabanjo University Lagos has grown rapidly since Nigerian independence in 1960 when its estimated population was 763,000 people. In the 1980s, its population reached 2.7 million. The government of Lagos state estimates that…
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Ramaphosa unveils jobs plans for SA youth

Ramaphosa unveils jobs plans for SA youth

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER FACED with the highest youth unemployment in South Africa’s history, at 64%, the country’s president has announced a raft of measures aimed at getting young people into jobs. In an address to mark the 45th anniversary of National Youth Day, the day on which SA’s youth took to the streets in protest against apartheid, Ramaphosa said the high unemployment rate was of great concern to the government. “This is something we cannot afford,” Ramaphosa said. The president launched the Presidential Youth Service, SA Youth Network and mPowa as new measures to add to government initiatives to create…
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Stereotypes about young jobless South Africans are wrong: what they’re really up to

Stereotypes about young jobless South Africans are wrong: what they’re really up to

SOUTH Africa has one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the world. A whopping 63% of its young people between the ages of 15 and 24 years are jobless. A large proportion of these young people have never worked in the formal economy. HANNAH J. DAWSON, Senior Researcher, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand The media frequently portray young people excluded from wage work as inactive, aimless and alienated from mainstream society. This image feeds into fears of crime, violence and social unrest in which people who are jobless are cast as a “ticking time bomb”…
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