Safeguarding Nigeria's Future Workforce

The future of formal work in Nigeria hangs in the balance. Credentials are no longer effective competency indicators; with rising unemployment, Nigeria increasingly needs to shift its education-to-employment systems to focus, instead, on competencies. As employers around the world scramble to hire the most productive labour at the lowest cost, the economies that will come out ahead are those that can provide the most productive workforce with the highest rate of return on investment. In or

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