REDUCING UNEMPLOYMENT THROUGH CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES

REDUCING UNEMPLOYMENT THROUGH CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1    BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Globally unemployment is causing government bodies sleepless management.  Several government bodies have set-up institution that can find solution to the unemployment menaced.  A time these bodies come-up with several community that government should control population of educational system and compulsory service for graduating youth etc as means of checking unemployment rate.

In Africa, particularly in Nigeria, unemployment menace have caused the government to come up with several employment scheme like National Directorate of Employment (NDE) to provide jobs for its teaming population. However the government even carried out self reliance programmes so as to impact into it’s citizen the need to develop their initiatives and employ themselves.

Some state government was not left out in finding solution for the teaming populace. Several employment agencies were set up like Voluntary Service Scheme (VSS) at Enugu state and school in land of River –State etc.  Suffice it to say that upon all these efforts no significant result were recorded. No amount of government policies, provision of human and material subvention, training of manpower, employment of expatriates have been able to improve rate.

Like a mustard seed an ideology which marched force with European industrial revolution of 18th century particularly in Britain not only survived but was exported to other parts of the world including Nkanu Local Government Area.  This research activity is conducted as to known the level or impact of cooperative in reducing unemployment menaces.  The act of carrying out these activities is called cooperative.