Nigeria, July 1 -- The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) will soon commence publishing (un)employment statistics two years after it stopped, the Statistician-General of the Federation, Yemi Kale, has said.

Mr Kale said the bureau was faced with insufficient funding but has received funds from the federal government "to continue the survey."

"But this was slowed down by the (coronavirus) pandemic induced lockdown," he told PREMIUM TIMES.

"NBS did not stop publishing labour force statistics. We had challenges with funding like most other MDAS. We have now received the funds but the lockdown slowed down the work. However, it has now commenced and will be published once the work is done up to q2 2020," he said.

The labour force statisti...