National Directorate of Employment (NDE) and Youths’ Unemployment Reduction in Rivers State, Nigeria

The study empirically focused on the nexus between National Directorate of Employment (NDE) and Youths' Unemployment Reduction in Rivers State of Nigeria. Nigeria is currently going through serious unemployment challenges which have threatened national peace, security and economic development sustainability, the establishment of employment generation agency notwithstanding. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey, and Like rt 5-type structured questionnaire. Validity test and 0.886 consistency test value was obtained. Out of 400 copies of questionnaire distributed to statistically selected respondents, 561 copies were found fit for use in the analysis, after data cleaning. Data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation (r) technique at 0.01 level of significance, with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Science software. Findings of the study showed that NDE significantly correlates with Youths' Unemployment reduction in Rivers State. Based on our findings, the study concludes that the present employment generation agency of government has not done much as expected in Rivers State to reduce youths' unemployment. We recommend among others that in addition to the existing employment agency, more output and productive-oriented industries should be established by government and private sector including the political class in Nigeria.