Government’s effort at creating new jobs for millions of unemployed youths is being threatened by arrival of robotic technology in key sectors that would have created these jobs.
The big issue is not whether the robots are coming, because they are. Banks in Nigeria are already firing cashiers as more ATMs pop up. In the food and beverage sector, as well as other manufacturing industries, more robots are being deployed for their precision and speed.
The question is, should Nigerian workers worry that available limited jobs will be taken by robots?Already, millions of unemployed youths have moved to Nigeria’s urban centres, […]
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