Goshen360: See pride in the hearts of some so called "graduates". Which kind book una don read wey another person never read before?I don't mean insult anyway. If you can apply for the job and be employed, why don't you take it for now UNTIL YOU GET A BETTER OFFER TO A BETTER POSITION/FUTURE. A clear picture of pride and despising the days of little beginning. You can even get the job just to save/build capital to start your own business. It doesn't diminish anything from you neither does it subtract anything from your future. As some graduates dey do yanga, some graduates don apply same job chap-chap.

micath09: Going through all the comments so far, it is appaulling and sad to imagine how nigerian youths thinks. There should be pride in whatever brings you dignity. I was a Second class upper degree holder in accounting before moving to United States, guess what; I took up odd jobs i would never do in Nigeria all because of our pride and our ways of thinking. I joined the Army a year later, but today, i'm proud to choose a career in truck driving. I earned a week, what shell worker will earn in a month and i'm progressively pursuing a law degree. One thing leads into other when you have a vision. Do you guys know that having an experience in truck driving and owning one in Nigeria could earn you fifteen million in a month. My advice to you all is to learn to be productive in anything you do. Education in itself is not a means, but a means to an end. So, it's all about innovation and being industrious, 2/3 of of U.S work force comes from private businesses and not dependence on the government for job. Besides you must be very inteligent to get certified as a CDL driver in America. It entails knowing all the parts, the brake chambers, the air system, correct backing and packing techniques, how the transmission works,proper knowledge of geography and understanding international road signs.

Onegai:

Let's talk, I can help out with this. Especially the biodegradable packaging, was already doing small work on that.

Taiw: After seeing the Dangote graduate driver recruitment advert, I said to myself that this man must be silly for disrespecting unemployed graduates in Nigeria. I cant imagine a Bsc or Hnd holder as a truck driver. Well I can only blame our leader for making him run a monopoly market and not providing jobs for our youths. After 4-5yrs in school, you den become a truck driver. Dangote is crazy. Nigeria is decaying gradually.

Goshen360: See pride in the hearts of some so called "graduates". Which kind book una don read wey another person never read before?I don't mean insult anyway. If you can apply for the job and be employed, why don't you take it for now UNTIL YOU GET A BETTER OFFER TO A BETTER POSITION/FUTURE. A clear picture of pride and despising the days of little beginning. You can even get the job just to save/build capital to start your own business. It doesn't diminish anything from you neither does it subtract anything from your future. As some graduates dey do yanga, some graduates don apply same job chap-chap.

dadaic:

You are a bastard young man...If nestle built a plant with 4.5billion naira and was able to employ close to about 1,000 graduates, why can't a so called billionaire do the same, how many trucks does he have? How many graduates can he employ? What happens to those who were driving the truck before? what experience can you learn from this? abegi, make una go kill una fucking billionaire wey dey only think of himself. would he let his kid work in a firm as a driver with a B,sc? Would you let your son do that? Go and die abeg

Goshen360: To my graduate friends who had insulted me as if I don't know what am talking about.

Let me help your "ego/pride" in this matter. I attended Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State and graduated in 1999. I did my Industrial Training (I.T) at Administrative Staff College of Nigeria - ASCON in Badagry, Lagos State. While I was serving, I met a colleague and we became friends. After completing our I.T, my friend went back for his H.N.D while I went for B.Sc in Lagos State University.

I engaged in a family business while I was in school, started a Grasscutter farming that now turned out to be one of the biggest Grasscutter farm in Nigeria today. How? Just in a little way. Today, this Grasscutter business has now grown so big that it became a source of income for my family while am away in abroad. From that little Grasscutter business, I was able to create another business - a Cybercafe business which I started in 2002/03. I started my Cybercafe business after my friend finished his HND and he was looking for job. My thought was that, we could work together creating job instead of looking for job, we should rather create job for ourselves. My friend had this mentality of looking for white collar job as he always wanted to work in an office environment but I had a different mentality of creating job because I understand you will only be helping someone to make money when you work for them.

I make bold to tell you that, I left Nigerian since 2008 and my friend is still searching for his white collar job. Alas! he hasn't got one even as we speak. Ladies and Gentlemen, the fact that we're all graduates doesn't mean we'll start with a white collar job. My advice is very simple and clear, if you are a graduate and you feel you can do this job offer from Dangote, kindly put your pride/ego aside and start from somewhere. Like I said, you can take this job and build capital from whatever income you earn to start your own business. In my years of business administration and management studies/Economics, I have come to know that YOU WILL ONLY BE MAKING PROFIT FOR YOUR EMPLOYER when you work for people while you are only paid "token" as wages, you being the one doing the main job. How then do you become your own boss? You either start from somewhere to build up capital or start your own business if you have your own capital.

poj: It would ve been a bit better if were to be anoda kind of driver, even molue. TRUCK driver! Haba those applauding this, can u sincerely encourage your sibling to take up such? May be u thnk it is ordinary pple dt drives truck, u ve to be MAD to drive a truck. U wil sleep on d road, bush, travel at odd hours just to mention few. Prospective applicants gudluck in advance.

ayox2003: But really, where is the world going? I can bet that some Masters holder would apply for this job (in the meantime) "hiding" their Masters certificate.

In a country like Nigeria where roads are bad and we know how insecure our highways are, this offer is really demeaning. Ha!! If I'm jobless, I can do this job in Yankee or JD. But in Naija, never!

I really praise those who have burned night candles at various universities who have taken the bull by the horn to roll steering wheels in Nigeria. Ah! Where u'd have to create social amenities by urself.

And after this job, what next? No work experience. Nothing. Only if they wanna work for a while to raise funds for business. Its really pathetic!

houstonia: @blackbaron, you are definitely a blackmoron to me, @stagger, obviously you are a quarter to death, thus u are desperate. @goshen360, I'm still in search of someone more stupid than you are. I know what I'm currently studying in school, you don't expect me after all my candles, and midnight vigillance, to wake up one morning and pick up outta all kinda jobs , a "driving job" in which obviously I'm expected to risk my life by trvelling long distances that involves intra and interstate ventures. Omo I think three of you have to be blocked from nairaland entirely. Abi would he advise his own sisters son to even take up this kinda job. Dangote must be a fool. I no sabi the money wey him get seff. Common Mark Zuk don beat am without political attachment or govt interferance.

Goshen360: To my graduate friends who had insulted me as if I don't know what am talking about.

Let me help your "ego/pride" in this matter. I attended Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State and graduated in 1999. I did my Industrial Training (I.T) at Administrative Staff College of Nigeria - ASCON in Badagry, Lagos State. While I was serving, I met a colleague and we became friends. After completing our I.T, my friend went back for his H.N.D while I went for B.Sc in Lagos State University.

I engaged in a family business while I was in school, started a Grasscutter farming that now turned out to be one of the biggest Grasscutter farm in Nigeria today. How? Just in a little way. Today, this Grasscutter business has now grown so big that it became a source of income for my family while am away in abroad. From that little Grasscutter business, I was able to create another business - a Cybercafe business which I started in 2002/03. I started my Cybercafe business after my friend finished his HND and he was looking for job. My thought was that, we could work together creating job instead of looking for job, we should rather create job for ourselves. My friend had this mentality of looking for white collar job as he always wanted to work in an office environment but I had a different mentality of creating job because I understand you will only be helping someone to make money when you work for them.

I make bold to tell you that, I left Nigerian since 2008 for the U.S and my friend is still searching for his white collar job. Alas! he hasn't got one even as we speak. I do not intend to mock my friend anyway, just citing an example. Ladies and Gentlemen, the fact that we're all graduates doesn't mean we'll start with a white collar job. My advice is very simple and clear, if you are a graduate and you feel you can do this job offer from Dangote, kindly put your pride/ego aside and start from somewhere. Like I said, you can take this job and build capital from whatever income you earn to start your own business. In my years of business administration and management studies/Economics, I have come to know that YOU WILL ONLY BE MAKING PROFIT FOR YOUR EMPLOYER when you work for people while you are only paid "token" as wages, you being the one doing the main job. How then do you become your own boss? You either start from somewhere to build up capital or start your own business if you have your own capital.

stagger:

I think you and others voicing the same opinion as you are, should have their heads examined.

A man has opted to drop the number of unemployed youths by giving them gainful employment. Yet some of you who have never paid a kobo to anyone as salary in your lives are talking babash.

What defines the kind of job a graduate should have in today's economy where a country like Spain whose banks can afford to loan Real Madrid money to buy Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka have seen unemployment rise to 25%?

There is dignity in labour, not in staying idle and I can tell you that there are many people who will take up that offer.

How much do banks pay HND holders? N15,000 the last I checked. I am very sure that a truck driver with Dangote will earn MUCH MORE than this. And there will be opportunities to get exposed to the intricacies of the haulage part of the cement business, which will come in very handy if that same individual will be able to buy a truck to start haulage biz later in life.

People should wake up and be realistic. I have met graduates who are bus conductors. I know a bus driver in PH who has only one leg, and rather than go begging like many people in his position, he has taken it upon himself to make himself useful to himself and his family.

You are all witnesses to the unbelievable Kleptomania going on in GEJ's regime. I know many government agencies where people siphon off millions of Naira in out of pocket expenses. Go to a typical government agency in Abuja and see how much is spent on purchase of rice during Christmas season.

Many of you commenting need to come and live and work in Abuja so you are exposed and see for yourself how money is stolen in this country on a daily basis. Some of you do not even know the story behind employment of coaches in NFF. Many of you do not even know how much contractors for some of these programs run by the Presidency collect. You probably do not even know how much money is spent on provision of snacks for meetings in government agencies.

This is money that can be used to provide employment for Nigerian youths. Now someone has taken it upon himself to provide employment for graduates. Some of these graduates you even defend cannot even write a sentence in correct English. I interview many of them in my business weekly.

You guys need to wake up. I for one do not like Dangote's monopolistic way of doing business, but I will salute him on this one.

Shaw007: pls tell me how many rich men of d world 2day got their wealth from d government. . ."work experience". . .this Dangote we are talking about had no 'work experience" o and neither did bill gates or steve jobs. . .but if ur one of those contented with relying on d government and then collecting pension for d rest of ur life. . .GOodluck with That

VUVUZELA10: Please do not blame the lucky Dangote. Blame the idiotic graduates who applied for the job.

dadaic:

You are a bastard young man...If nestle built a plant with 4.5billion naira and was able to employ close to about 1,000 graduates, why can't a so called billionaire do the same, how many trucks does he have? How many graduates can he employ? What happens to those who were driving the truck before? what experience can you learn from this? abegi, make una go kill una fucking billionaire wey dey only think of himself. would he let his kid work in a firm as a driver with a B,sc? Would you let your son do that? Go and die abeg

Martini101:
THE IDEAL CANDIDATES
•Candidates should have a B.sc., HND, OND or NCE certificate (in any discipline)
•Not less than 25 years of age
•Physically fit
•Responsible and mature
•No prior driving experience required