Bidam: You might actually wanna heed the sensible advice of getting busy. It pays.

tpia@:


come back home is a foreign phrase, nigerians dont like that kind of foreign talk.

MsSantaClaus:

You better beleive it my dear, when I advertised for "Sales Girl" in a clothes shop, I got applications from all of the above. Some were begging me for the job, that they are tired of staying at home, just somewhere to go to everyday, a lady who is an accountant even knelt down crying! I have seen them all.

Marco-P :


Publish the names of the PhD and MSc holders that applied for the job.
Its all ACN propaganda.

We know there are no jobs in Nigeria, but not for a PhD to apply for your clerical job when there are many private schools that will gladly employ them for much more just to shore up the profile of such schools.

Anyway, how can there be jobs for people when all the jobs created through the questionable public-private partnership ventures in Lagos are meant only for members of Tinubu family and their close associates.

Go to Lekki Concession Company, Alpha Beta Consulting, LAGBUS, Office of Public-Private bla bla bla, Oriental Hotel, Southern Sun Hotel, and many others.

Soon they will say its GEJ that's responsible for Tinubu's drug problem. May God deliver our leaders.

slap1: All these people screaming self-employment seem to forget that you have to start with something. Everyone is not equally blessed. You need money to start anything, no matter how little. Our youths are hardworking, but the government is not supportive.

emmysenior: Self employment! Self employment!! Self employment!!! Plus skill acquisition na em be the koko now ooo...

Do not wait on the government to provide you with jobs ooo...

Almost all the of our politicians don't care about us ooo...

All their energies are channelled towards the jaga jaga of 2015 ooo...

Dem dey look for money to steal and stock pile in readiness for 2015 ooo...

They are all thieves and rogues ooo...

Start today, input innovative ideas, refuse to give up even if that your babe wey love run go, when you hammer, dem go dey worship you.

Once again self employment ooo...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to all the Batch B corp members on their POP today.

Gbawe: I think we read similar to this not too long ago when PHD holders were amongst those applying for driving vacancies in one of Aliko Dangote's companies.

Employment cannot be boosted appreciable if the centre remains unwilling to make efforts against current practices sabotaging the growth of the SME sector (the main employer of labour worldwide) and stifling economic prosperity of the nation.

How, as one example, can the SME sector grow when 70% of annual budgeted spending is used to recurrently fund governance and politics? Generally, far more help, as a matter of utmost urgency, should be available for the SME sector for a nation like Nigeria with a chronic and serious unemployment problem. This is not the case because spending the wealth of Nigeria profligately on politics, politicians and patronising offices/activities affiliated with governance is the self-destructive obsession of a myopic class of leaders Nigeria has had at the centre since 1999.

ndudichukwumah: Dis is a disgrace to a country where phd and msc haunting for a job of 25k.if dis msc and phd holders can take dis offer then thier result should be question because no matter d rate of unemployment dey can do something better to earn more than dat amount dat will be paid by govt.

Nigayoyo:

lie!!!...not PhD holders in STEM fields

PEREP:

Not in all cases. There are people who simply advertise shoes on BB only to go pick it from an aunt or a shop owner when a friend is interested. I also know of people who simply wake up, look around for addresses of houses that are vacant around lagos and propagate it via the social media and get percentage accordingly. This is not to talk of people who copy phone numbers on cars parked for sale and get a buyer while the seller simply pay a percentage. Some pple even start with counseling school pupils after a detailed research on choosing a career via the Internet and get the parents of those kids to pay as low as N500 to attend.

So many things around to do but most pple are waiting for one capital which is no where. Add value to existing structures and see if you will not make it VERY big.

All the best.

1.) Special banks to fund SME's must be established and even more importantly FORCED to do their responsibility of giving soft loans to Youths to start Self Employed Business. The Banks we have now only loan money meant for SME's to "Big men" who have no intention of repaying back.

2.) There must be independent Appeal Process to challenge a "refusal for SME loans" to ensure that "paddy-paddy" is not introduced. Sanctions should be stiff and uncompromising

3.) Electricity is the beginning and End of any development. We will never develop or bring down unemployment as long as we still depend on Power Fuel-generators. At least, we must achieve 75% stability in electricity and load shedding can be used to cater for the 25% while we build capacity. Stable electricity will by itself, spring-up many self employed business, as it is a major cost of doing business.

4.) Other infrastructures like roads, water and steel sectors (major Government responsibilities) must also get a boost alongside

5.) Govt must put in place a "Hardship Allowance" for start-Up business to assist them in reducing the impact of the stress that start-up business face. You dont start making money on a business right away (except "buy and sell" which is not deep business anyway). You go through a period of:
(a) investment(pumping all your resources in),
(b) stability (reducing financial input but no profit),
(c) Break-even (zero financial input but still no profit! )
(d) and then profit starts building up slowly.

ChiefS: IT IS NOT TRUE.This is probably an exaggeration.The truth is that there is a dearth of PhD holders.Anybody with a PhD and knows what he is doing will definitely get a job in the academia or research institutes.
There are so many new federal and state universities in need of PhD holders.What about Private universities?Except the person is not ready to leave Lagos to other parts of the country.

saxywale:
I have met a Nigerian PhD holder in chemistry from the university of manchester working at "I'm loving it".
His case would have been different if he was a national of the EU.

c++_crazy:
chai!!! Like seriously am really scared with all this unemployment and bad news flying around. I really want to get married to my girlfriend but If I have no money or still hustling, I can't go on wid d plans cos i wouldn't want to make a mockery of myself by subjecting her to pains of not having wat ever she wants and I may die if I loose this girl cos as time goes on, she'll like to get married and if I don't show seriousness, i wouldn't blame her for leaving me but it'l really kill me.

omotayos01:
huh! Lier

nwanna89: Car washers in abuja make six thousand naira per day. But of course we nigerian graduates love fancy jobs where we get paid only 25 thousand naira per month

touch_me_hard: While u agree that there is unemployment in the land, i still have my reservations about these PhD and MSc holders in question.
Those could probably be those type of Msc and PhD holders who cannot defend their certificates. When you interact with some of them, or engage them in intellectual discussions or read what they've written, you begin to wonder what type of school they went to. Which goal-driven organization would want to employ them?
Sometime when you attend interviews, you see some graduates not putting in enough effort during the interview to convince the recruiters that they are the right candidates for the job.
Their countenance just appears helpless and at the mercy of the recruiters, looking as if they are begging for the job. At the end of the interview you hear them saying "pls Oga/Madam help me". All they know is "help help help!" Yet they haven't convinced the interviewers on why they should be recruited. They haven't placed on the interview table what they are bringing into the organization.
And yet you see the few that appear self-confident and knowledgeable during the interview, getting the job, why?
Because they put their foot on the ground and convince the interviewer that they have something upstairs, and therefore should be hired.
Let everybody look inwards and ask him/herself this crucial question "Am I employable?" "Can I contribute to the growth of a company".

Meanwhile, everybody may not be able to get a white-collar job. What happens to creativity and innovation? People with good business plans are getting financed through the Sure-P and YouWin programmes of this administration. People are out there benefiting, while others are just sitting down whining, just because they can't think!

trolling: a man has to provide for his wife o,if you are not capable then its best you wait till you are financially stable,however a woman should assist her husband too,thats why she's called help-meet

pretyprexy:
dear its advisable you are know you are capable b4 u enter into marriage..

trolling: which kain grammar be this,aha,aha

c++_crazy:
don't tackle her, i got her message loud and clear. U made ur own grammatical blunder but no one came after you, it may not have been as a result of her grammatical prowess but might have been a typo something. U meant help-mate but wrote help meet, but I understood U and I appreciate but still might rob a bank or even kidnap if the necessity arises when the time arises, just can't contemplate not marrying dat girl and providing 4 her.