Nigeria, March 17 -- Nigeria's two dominant parties have again engaged in trade blame over the surge of unemployment rate in the country as released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

The NBS, in its latest labour force report released on Monday, pegged Nigeria's unemployment rate at 33.3 per cent, a direct indictment on the country's political leadership.

Breaking down the figure in its report, the Bureau said 23.2 million out of the estimated 69.7 million people in the labour force are unemployed.

Pushing aside the breakdown of the disappointing figure and its accumulated force from different states in the country, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) , on Tuesday, said the figure undermined the "much-orchestrated claims of ma...