The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data are always wrong, a presidential adviser has said.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed this in an interview with Trust TV’s Daily Politics on Wednesday.
Ngelele said the NBS usually gives out the wrong statistics of unemployed adults in the country.
He said the agency doesn’t have the required manpower to produce accurate data.
He said, “The Statistician-General told us that we have a handful of NBS staff. Go to the NBS yourself and see what their employment rolls look like, how many staff do they have to be able to send out to the nooks and crannies of the entire Nigerian federation. They send out a handful of people state by state.”
He said the NBS figures failed to capture those in the informal sector.
Ngelele said, “I am saying very clearly that the NBS has a serious problem with accurate data till today.
“The same statistics suggested that somewhere in 2014, that the unemployment rate on the nation was eight percent that is less than 10 percent… will you suggest anytime in your lifetime in this country, Nigeria, that we are all living in, that out of the adult population in the country, with well over a 100 million people, that 92 million out of the working adults, even worst that..
