Nigeria’s informal sector

The Edo State Technical Advisor on Employment Promotion, Helen Igboka, has urged the government at every level to create an enabling environment for the informal sector of the economy to…

Forty percent of employees in Nigeria’s informal sector, are owed wages, a situation that is worsening poverty in Africa’s largest economy, according to a new report by SBM Intelligence, a…

About 60 percent of the world’s employed population operate within the informal economy, with Africa alone having 85.8 percent of its employment being informal, according to an International…

Having the right data alongside the integration of different intervention policies are major ingredients needed to unlock the huge potential in Nigeria’s informal sector, experts have said.…

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought negative economic consequences in the form of job losses, threatened the sustainability of firms and depressed growth in GDP. Nigeria has the challenge of a…