Afrigather The Nationwide Bureau of Statistics has mentioned it’ll launch new unemployment and employment figures for the nation by Might 2023.
It disclosed this in a report titled ‘Nigeria Labour Power Framework Re-design 2023’.
It famous that the report will cowl information collected from October 19, 2022, to January 22, 2023.
It revealed, “Standing of the NLFS: Information assortment for 2022/2023 is ongoing starting from nineteenth October 2022.
“This fall report will cowl information collected between nineteenth October 2022 and twenty second January 2023. The report for the reference quarter is sort of concluded and shall be revealed earlier than the tip of Might 2023.”
The NBS famous that it was studying from different international locations to enhance Nigeria’s labour market statistics.
It mentioned, “Although gathering high-quality labour market information is among the many most tough duties that statistical places of work all over the world face, the NBS has risen to the problem.
“Whereas this has taken the time and implies that comparisons with earlier labour market information in Nigeria is not going to be attainable, this locations Nigeria’s labour market statistics on extra sustainable footing going ahead.”
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Editor’s Be aware
In our put up on February 19, 2023, in a narrative ‘Lady burns self to demise over failure to offset N70,000 mortgage’, we reported {that a} middle-aged girl, merely generally known as Mama Dada, set herself ablaze over her incapacity to pay again a mortgage of N70,000 she reportedly took from a microfinance financial institution, LAPO.
We’ve since found that the microfinance financial institution referred to within the story was not LAPO Microfinance Financial institution Restricted.
We apologise to the LAPO Group for the error within the identification of the title of the mentioned microfinance financial institution the place the deceased took the mortgage. The combo-up within the title of the MFB shouldn’t be deliberate.
