The Nigeria Labour Congress has challenged the Federal Government to urgently address the rising unemployment rate in the country, which it described as a time bomb.

It said it will be difficult for the nation to have peace if the issue of unemployment is not checked.

NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, said these during the 40th-anniversary celebration of the Labour Writers Association of Nigeria.

He said with what was happening today, the organized labour needed more collaboration and sensitization of every worker, to be able to be on the same page and address some of the ills.

On his part, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said the Buhari-led administration had maintained a calm industrial environment.

He said the current government had in six years and five months been very effective in job creation, despite the inherited socioeconomic downturn.