THE IMPACT OF UNEMPLOYMENT ON YOUTH RESTIVENESS IN EHANLEN-EWU COMMUNITY OF EDO STATE.

ABSTRACT

This study examines the impact of unemployment on youth restiveness in Ehanlen-Ewu community of Edo State. In conducting the study, a sample size of one hundred and fifty (150) respondents were randomly selected from the population. The survey design was adopted for this study. To collect the needed data and information, a questionnaire was designed in line with the research questions. The method of data collection included the questionnaire, in-depth interview and secondary records which essentially included documents relating to the impact of unemployment on youth restiveness. Data were analyzed by means of tables, frequency distribution and percentages. From the findings, it was revealed that the impact of unemployment has a significant relationship on youth restiveness. It also revealed that impact of unemployment on youth restiveness in Ehanlen-Ewu community is as a result of the poor financial misconduct by the top administrative officers of the council.  Furthermore, the study revealed that poor coordination among the relevant authorities is a serious hindrance to youth empowerment efforts in Ehanlen-Ewu community of Edo State. Also, it was revealed that the impact of unemployment one of the most sensitive and disturbing problem fighting against the development in Ehanlen-Ewu Community of Edo State. It also revealed that the impact of unemployment on youth restiveness has a devastating effect on the youths Ehanlen-Ewu Community of Edo State. Finally, from the findings, it was revealed that the impact of unemployment on youth restiveness is one of the major impediments to the social-economic growth of Ehanlen-Ewu community of Edo State.  The study therefore made the following recommendations that there should be the establishment of skills acquisition centres in all the wards in the state as to reduce the pace of violence, multinational companies in the area should lay more emphasis on labour intensive rather than capital intensive. This would help for the employment of manual labourers, Government should provide infrastructural facilities in the rural areas to reduce the pace of rural-urban migration. Infrastructural development may make the youths to be self-reliant, Government should provide loans to turners in the rural areas to motivate youths, Religious leaders should redirect their programmes to carry the youths along, citing of more police stations or posts in the rural areas will equally reduce the pace of crime and violence, and also, the issue of tackling unemployment should be collective and not to be left in the hands of only the government.