EFFECT OF YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT AND INSECURITY IN NIGERIA.

ABSTRACT An unemployed person is defined as someone who is not in paid employment but who is actively looking far work The primary cause ofunemployment is that there are not enough Jobs for those wanting to work This project examined the possible ways to thrash out the unemployment problem staring the youths at the face.The study examined the causes and effects of unemployment on youths and national development.The study,which relied on secondary data and authors’ observation,revealed that a high rate of unemployment has led to a growing number of Nigerian youth trying all means to leave the shore ofthe country in search of greener pastures.Furthermore, it has forced many of the youths into “unpalatable activities”such as prostituting,thuggery, hooliganism,drugs addicting and peddling,armed robbery and hired assassin.Thus,politicians to achieve their inordinate ambitions are using the most energetic part ofthe country's population that supposed to contribute to the nation's development.In doing this,the causes ofunemployment were analysed,the effects were looked into,to see its gravity on the youths and the society,so as to explore the likely solutions.If the highlighted remedies are carefully implemented,youths’ unemployment will be reduced and there will be good economic turn over,nationally and globally.