Checkmating unemployment among Nigeria youth: fish farming option is a project met to look into the unemployment situation in the country, identify the course and effect and possible effort being made by the government to remedy the situation. The fish farming option can be seen as an option to checkmate unemployment. So, this project focuses on exploring the fish farming business as the way youth can be self employed.

This project is divided into five chapters with chapter one starting with the background of the study, objective of the study limitation of the study statement of research problem, scope of the study and justification of the study.

Several literature are review to see what other authority says about the topic. So, several books, journals and other sources of information were use to assess the level and nature of unemployment situation globally and also in Nigeria. The option fish farming was expressively discussed for easy understanding of those who intend to go for the business.

The research methodology aspect is the focuses of chapter three while the four deals with data analysis and interpretation. The questionnaires were design and distributed to the respondent, personal interview and observation were also used to get the information. The data was interpreted using simple percentage, regression analysis and spearman rank order correlation method were use to test the two hypothesis of the fish farming reduce youth unemployment and fish farming is a lucrative business.

Finally, the whole finding were summarize, recommendations were made and the chapter was concluded on the note that fish farming could be a better option to checkmate youth unemployment in Nigeria and also lucrative.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE                                                                                                I

CERTIFICATION                                                                             II

DEDICATION                                                                                   III

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS                                                             IV

ABSTRACT                                                                                                 VI

TABLE OF CONTENTS                                                                VIII

CHAPTER ONE

1.1                   Background of the study                                                     1

1.2                   Statement of Research Problem                                        8

1.3                   Research Question                                                              9

1.4                   Objective of the Study                                                         10

1.5                   Justification of the Study                                                     11

1.6                   Scope of the Study                                                               12

1.7                   Limitation of the Study                                                         12

CHAPTER TWO

2.1.1       Introduction                                                                                    13

2.1.2      Definition of unemployment                                                         15

2.1.3   Taxonomy of unemployment                                                         15

 2.1.4 Structure of unemployment in Nigeria                                          21

2.1.5     Remedies of unemployment situation in Nigeria                                    23

2.2       Fish farming, an option to checkmate Unemployment               28

2.2.1   Introduction                                                                                       28

2.2.2   History of fish farming                                                                      29

2.2.3   Construction of fish pond                                                                30

2.2.4   Method of fish farming                                                                     31

2.2.5   Species of fish that can be farm in Nigeria                                   33

2.2.6   Care and feeding of fish                                                                  34

2.2.7   How to start fish farming business                                 35

CHAPTER THREE

3.1       Research Methodology                                                                   38

3.2       Method of data collection                                                                38

3.3       Sample design                                                                                 39

3.4       Justification of sample size                                                             39

3.5       Method of data analysis                                                                  40

3.6       Research Hypotheses                                                                     41

3.7.      Organization Structure of

Kwara State Ministry of Agriculture                                               41

CHAPTER FOUR

4.0       Data presentation and analysis                                                     42

4.1       Data presentation                                                                             42

4.2       Data analysis                                                                                    42

4.3       Testing of research hypotheses                                                     55

CHAPTER FIVE

5.0       Summary, conclusion and recommendations                             60

5.1       Summary of findings                                                                        60

5.2       Conclusion                                                                                        61

5.3       Recommendation                                                                             62

References                                                                                        63

Appendix                                                                                           65