CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
There are unique issues and threats of every community across the globe. It's not an exception to Nigeria. She faces her own national, political, economic and cultural challenges as a developing world that have to a large extent influenced the welfare of people. This include joblessness and the growing surge of violence, which has havocful consequences for national growth.Despite the country's plentiful human and natural resources, the unemployment rate in Nigeria continues to rise. In Nigeria the chronic insecurity of young people is apparent. Thousands of graduates are made annually, but most of them have no work. Nigerian roads are full of littered youth hawkers who ordinarily would have found profitable jobs in a company (Okafor, 2011). The large numbers of unemployed youth can undermine democratic practice because they are a grave threat to illegal and criminal activities by the political class (Adepegba, 2011; Ibrahim, 2011; Lartey, 2011; Olatunji and Abioye, 2011; Okafor, 2011).
The youth, through their artistic and inventive abilities, represent also a significant stakeholder in society and are a major part of workforce. However, the discontent of the unemployed young could be turned into crime in society in the absence of daily wages and subsistence to secure the livelihood. A huge unemployed youth is obvious in Nigeria today's workplace framework. The details given by the national labor and statistics offices that Nigeria has young people of around 80 million people is approximately 60% of the total population of the nation and from this,64 million of them are unemployed while 1.6million are underemployed. Awogbenle and Iwuamadi
A large number of these youth are vigorous and have work potential, but they travel on the streets and seek hardly existing employment everyday (obaro,2012). The current state of youth unemployment in Nigeria reflects the country's long-standing general decline as a result of a number of reasons. Moreover, reliance on oil income for lack of farming sectors, the simplification of sounding and unsustainable policies, high profile corruption between politics and bureaucrats and schooling in secondary and tertiary institutions, which is aiming for salary-employment,and bereft of entrepreneurship development (Awogbenle and Iwuamadi 2010; Murphy 2008; Alanana 2003 and Fapohunda 2003). Successive government in the country have introduced various programmes to fight unemployment in order to curb criminal behaviours. it is reported that all government interventions did not have a huge impact on unemployment (Osmorodion 2010). Thus, in view of economic poverty and working life in which most youth have found themselves in this region, the immunity of the Commission of Crime is connected to youth unemployment. It is remarkable that only few studies have documented the association between the two social trends in Nigeria given the prevalent severity of youth unemployment and an increase in crime.
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
This is why it has been important to consider the causes of unemployment, the reasons why it is continued and the necessary recommendations which will provide jobs for young people and anyone in work. Nigeria has long been confronted with the issue of youth jobless persistent employment. Many students graduate each year from tertiary and higher education institutions without any job opportunity. Hence the streets of Nigeria are full of youth hawkers who normally have found earning jobs in certain businesses or demonstrate their ability and capability when the atmosphere is enabling.