Ajuri Ngelale, senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Public Affairs, says the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) often gets the data it releases to the public wrong.
Ngelale said this on Wednesday night while featuring on Trust TV’s Daily Politics.
He said the NBS usually gives out the wrong statistics of unemployed adults in the country.
According to him, the figures neglect those in the informal sector.
“I am saying very clearly that the NBS has a serious problem with accurate data till today,” Ngelale said.
“The same statistics suggested that somewhere in 2014, that the unemployment rate on the nation was eight per cent that is less than 10 per cent… 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.
“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.”
