"About 2.1 million Nigerians lost their jobs in 2016" National Bureau of Statistics

The National Bureau of Statistics has stated through their unemployment report that the  number of Nigerians who became unemployed rose to 11.55 million at the end of 2016 against 9.48 million at the beginning of the year meaning that extra 2.7 million became unemployed at the end of 2016.The NBS report also stated that the unemployment rate was highest for persons in the labour force