Many multinational corporations have offices in Abuja, the nation’s new capital city, purpose-built in the 1980s. The five star Transcorp Hilton Abuja is known as the best and correspondingly one of the most expensive hotels in Abuja. It has everything the executive with an expense account could wish for, including seven restaurant and bar areas, a pool and a casino. With its corporate facilities and 24 hour entertainment, staying here will cost around €200 a night. The Sheraton Abuja offers similar comforts and standards, with 14 meeting rooms, a pool and conveniently central location. And excellent international and local cooking is served in four restaurants. The four star Mediterranean Hotel in the Asokoro District has more individual character and charm than most blandly decorated business hotels. As well as 25 rooms, a pool and restaurant, it has an impressive recreation centre for guests and locals alike.

Lagos, the former capital, is still the commercial heart of Nigeria. The Sofitel Lagos is in Ikoyi, a residential area close by the business district. Its 94 rooms are spacious and elegant, and it has a good array of facilities including a pool, meeting rooms, restaurants and bars. The Sheraton Lagos Hotel offers all the modern comforts of a large international hotel, with over 300 rooms, four restaurants, a business centre and swimming pool. It is situated in the district of Ikeja and easily accessible from the airport. The rapidly expanding city of Uyo is in an oil-rich area of Nigeria. Hotels include the highly rated Le Meridien Ibom Hotel and Golf resort. Here you can stay in a tropical idyll, sheltered by palm tree forests and landscaped gardens. The challenging 18-hole golf course, luxurious surroundings and conference facilities for up to 1,000 people make it ideal for business events. The price per night averages around €160.

Nigeria has been seeing a steady increase in the number of business travellers as a result of its status as the largest oil industry in Africa. Several exciting hotel developments are in the pipeline and many existing hotels and guesthouses are being upgraded to meet the visitors’ expectations. Rezidor, the Brussels-based hotel company, plans to launch several of its Park Inn brand hotels in Nigeria. The first one, in Lagos, will be called the Ikeja Hotel and is due to open in 2013 with 135 rooms. Another Rezidor brand, Radisson Blu, is building two large luxury hotel in Lagos, one in the Victoria Island district. For seriously chic business accommodation, the five star Wheatbaker Hotel in Lagos promises to combine a boutique hotel style with conferencing and business facilities.

Every year and year, the Nigeria unemployment rate keeps on going higher and higher as fresh graduates passes out from their various institutions of higher learning only to be met with a long queue of their senior ones who have earlier passed out from the various universities and polytechnics and are yet still unemployed, as there are few jobs to go round the vast unemployed population in the country. The situation has become pathetic as year after year, job seekers and applicants are left with nothing to do than to roam about the streets looking for jobs that are not available. Their case is also worsen as most of them are not employable by potential employers of labour, this may be due to their lack of core technical knowledge about their discipline or poor result.

The Nigerian government is also concerned about the ugly trend as she is already setting up machinery, legislatures and agencies to look into the situation and try to reduce the high unemployment rate. This can be seen through the national poverty eradication programme (napep) and the national directorate of employment (nde) that are both into reducing unemployment by introducing unemployed youths into self employment through the small and medium scale enterprises. We hope that in the nearest future, hopefully by the year 2020 (vision 2020), Nigeria’s high unemployment rate would have been greatly reduced. Until then, jobs seekers, keep on the struggle, that dream job you desire you definitely come your way, god willing. Jobs seekers, you can now get the latest Nigeria jobs vacancies, graduates jobs and career opportunities in Nigeria from my website dedicated to totally free daily Nigeria jobs vacancies.