Accounting for employment generation and expansion: A tool for insecurity in Nigeria

An enduring outcome of observation processes is the enduring visibility of the need for the generation

and expansion of employment. The current situations in Nigeria are underemployment, unemployment

as well as insecurity. Among the broad causes of unemployment are absence of industrialization, poor

agricultural system, high cost of qualitative education, rapid population growth, rural-urban migration

in search for white collar job, mismatch between required and acquired skill and poor data base. The

focus of this paper is to account for and recommend ways of employment generation and expansion on

the one hand and proffer a panacea for insecurity on the other, the assumption is that, employment

generation should be on the priority list of any government on policy formation as well as the

expansion, continuity and sustainability of the generated employment in general and improvement on

low agricultural produce in particular. Therefore, it is however recommended that improvement on low

agricultural output, technology transfer and Empowerment of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises

(SMEs) or entrepreneurship should be critically taken attention to, to generate employment and as well

curb the insecurity situation in Nigeria.