%0 Journal Article %1 noauthororeditor %A Bello, Mu'azu Abdullahi Ishaq Sulaiman Isyaku Muhammad Aminu Abdullahi Jamilu Abdulahmid %D 2017 %J International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development %K Nigeria Poverty Social Sociology Unemployment Youth panacea protection %N 1 %P 301-309 %T Youth Unemployment and Poverty in Nigeria: Effective Social Protection as a Panacea %U http://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/sociology/5961/youth-unemployment-and-poverty-in-nigeria--effective-social-protection-as-a-panacea/mu'azu-abdullahi-ishaq %V 2 %X This paper examines the problem of youth unemployment and poverty in Nigeria, with a view of highlighting the need for effective and sustainable social protection strategy in the country. Majority of Nigerians are engulfed in the ocean of poverty. The Nigerian government seem to have shown lighter effort in its contractual obligation to provide socioeconomic security to its citizens. There is drastic collapse of social security, increase in unemployment rate and consequently high rate of poverty. Youth are very important stakeholders in any society they are regarded not only as useful resources in nation-building but also the backbone of any societal development. The primary objective of this paper is to identify the dual problem of poverty and unemployment especially among the youths as the major disease that crippled the attempt by Nigeria to achieve sustainable development and at the same time ascertain the need for the formulation and implementation of effective and sustainable social protection strategy as a means of tackling the ever increasing rate of unemployment and poverty in Nigeria. The paper recommended that, for Nigeria to tackle unemployment and poverty problem, the priority of the people shall be identified, corruption must be eliminated and informal sectors, such as agriculture, shall be incorporated into the national economic priority, not public sector or oil alone. Mu'azu Abdullahi Ishaq | Sulaiman Isyaku Muhammad | Aminu Abdullahi | Jamilu Abdulahmid Bello"Youth Unemployment and Poverty in Nigeria: Effective Social Protection as a Panacea" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-1 , December 2017, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd5961.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/sociology/5961/youth-unemployment-and-poverty-in-nigeria--effective-social-protection-as-a-panacea/mu'azu-abdullahi-ishaq

@article{noauthororeditor, abstract = {This paper examines the problem of youth unemployment and poverty in Nigeria, with a view of highlighting the need for effective and sustainable social protection strategy in the country. Majority of Nigerians are engulfed in the ocean of poverty. The Nigerian government seem to have shown lighter effort in its contractual obligation to provide socioeconomic security to its citizens. There is drastic collapse of social security, increase in unemployment rate and consequently high rate of poverty. Youth are very important stakeholders in any society they are regarded not only as useful resources in nation-building but also the backbone of any societal development. The primary objective of this paper is to identify the dual problem of poverty and unemployment especially among the youths as the major disease that crippled the attempt by Nigeria to achieve sustainable development and at the same time ascertain the need for the formulation and implementation of effective and sustainable social protection strategy as a means of tackling the ever increasing rate of unemployment and poverty in Nigeria. The paper recommended that, for Nigeria to tackle unemployment and poverty problem, the priority of the people shall be identified, corruption must be eliminated and informal sectors, such as agriculture, shall be incorporated into the national economic priority, not public sector or oil alone. Mu'azu Abdullahi Ishaq | Sulaiman Isyaku Muhammad | Aminu Abdullahi | Jamilu Abdulahmid Bello"Youth Unemployment and Poverty in Nigeria: Effective Social Protection as a Panacea" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-1 , December 2017, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd5961.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/sociology/5961/youth-unemployment-and-poverty-in-nigeria--effective-social-protection-as-a-panacea/mu'azu-abdullahi-ishaq }, added-at = {2018-09-01T06:41:39.000+0200}, author = {Bello, Mu'azu Abdullahi Ishaq Sulaiman Isyaku Muhammad Aminu Abdullahi Jamilu Abdulahmid}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2567b65d46de770663852de83c22989fe/ijtsrd}, interhash = {82fce3f97cea2a17e7d3b67e88c1c2a9}, intrahash = {567b65d46de770663852de83c22989fe}, issn = {2456-6470}, journal = {International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development}, keywords = {Nigeria Poverty Social Sociology Unemployment Youth panacea protection}, language = {English}, month = dec, number = 1, pages = {301-309}, timestamp = {2018-10-02T11:01:27.000+0200}, title = {Youth Unemployment and Poverty in Nigeria: Effective Social Protection as a Panacea }, url = {http://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/sociology/5961/youth-unemployment-and-poverty-in-nigeria--effective-social-protection-as-a-panacea/mu'azu-abdullahi-ishaq}, volume = 2, year = 2017 }