ehixking:

My heart bleeds for you
tell us how you lost your job
Did you steal the money you used to travel to america and china after losing your job
How did you get the money to start importing from china
Why import? Can you be creative enough to use your God given talent to cope with NEPA, bad roads,poor network and start producing in Nigeria instead of turning your own fathers land into a dumping ground?

pls leave that slowpoke
sometime we need to ignor fool like him

Some posters are still getting it wrong. No one is saying unemployed graduates should not come together, the big question is: WHY ARE WE COMING TOGETHER? WHAT ARE THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF NAUG?

I repeat, we can all blame the government,politicians, society or our immediate environment but the onus is on each individual to make a success of their life. Yes, the Nigerian situation is not favorable but I repeat there is still a lot to be done.

My earlier post is just one or two examples, hundreds abound around us.

Service delivery is still very poor in Nigeria, graduates from various disciplines are supposed to come in and run things better.

Some of the things this association can ask for may inlcude:

1) The need for absolute transparency in recruitment processes in Nigeria. Both government and private organizations. That way, the unemployed will know those that got the few available jobs are better qualified not these connection mantra everyone now believes in. A few organizations are still transparent though.

2) Banks should be compelled to give loans at no interest rate to graduates with workable business plan or ideas with a flexible repayment plan.

3) The need for the University curriculum to be tailored towards what the society needs. Yes, we are graduates already but one major problem is company's still retrain in most cases and that's why most people don't even know how to improve upon what is being done. Because we don't even know what we are doing.

4)Also, we can ask for the government to compel professionals in areas where we are interested in developing a career to provided mentoring for those that have shown enough fundamental knowledge in areas where they have secured their degree.

These and many more can be part of the objectives.

But, if you have all gathered to seek sympathy or ask for jobs just because you are graduates, it is a very wrong idea and the association will end up being used for political reasons.

Best of luck to those that understand where I'm coming from

I agree with GAny Amen
This piece was extracted from our facebook page


Gany Ameen
Its a good move, i pray that the initiators' objective would not be redirected. My free professional advice: 1. Dressing code for all meeting should be corporate. 2. Only English Language should be allowed in all forum. 3. No anti-govt song, slogan etc should allowed (at least for now). 4. No insult, name calling etc of any political office holder. 5. Members should be oriented how to talk to the press. 6. The open objective should be " reducing the rate of unemployment in Nigeria" . 7. the Exco should always let the press know that our political leaders are not the problem of unemployment but the policies & their implementations which need change. 8. No support should be welcomed from any political party or its representative (for now). 9. Note that you are all professionals in different fields, act as such - no aluta songs; Do more of writing to the authourity than talking. You can take all this, edit it or leave it but please no one should insult my personality. I pray for the success of your mission.

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rman: Service delivery is still very poor in Nigeria, graduates from various disciplines are supposed to come in and run things better.

Some of the things this association can ask for may inlcude:

1) The need for absolute transparency in recruitment processes in Nigeria. Both government and private organizations. That way, the unemployed will know those that got the few available jobs are better qualified not these connection mantra everyone now believes in. A few organizations are still transparent though.

2) Banks should be compelled to give loans at no interest rate to graduates with workable business plan or ideas with a flexible repayment plan.

3) The need for the University curriculum to be tailored towards what the society needs. Yes, we are graduates already but one major problem is company's still retrain in most cases and that's why most people don't even know how to improve upon what is being done. Because we don't even know what we are doing.

4)Also, we can ask for the government to compel professionals in areas where we are interested in developing a career to provided mentoring for those that have shown enough fundamental knowledge in areas where they have secured their degree.

These and many more can be part of the objectives.

But, if you have all gathered to seek sympathy or ask for jobs just because you are graduates, it is a very wrong idea and the association will end up being used for political reasons.

Best of luck to those that understand where I'm coming from

Great post, its a bright head you've got on your shoulders.

I just hope the group executives realize the need to have a team to develop the strategy that'll guide the actions of the group.

ehixking: channels TV just informed the they would be around on saturday the 7th to grace the occassion..May God bless you guys

Wonderful!!! So gracious! It shall be a success IJN-amen.

cdoffx: it bores down to the fact that the jobs available is totally insufficient hence the reason why the few available has to be taken through whom you know means. Also when we talk about job creation
we're not only talking about civil service jobs alone and thats why
industrialization is the key to solving unemployment. Do you expect new but unnecessary job posts to be created in the civil service simply because we want to eradicate unemployment. My brother industrialization is the key when there're enough industries then mechanical engineers,
biochemist, microbiologist, food technologist, applied physicist and so on will fit into rightful places and not all competing for the few civil service positions

Ehis, pls take note of this sensible post to be discussed as one of the banes creating unemployment.

waldigit :

Folks there is money on the street in this country, if only we can bend down low to pick it.

Love that statement.
Food for thoughts.

How can I describe tomorrow ?
How poetic can I be?
Who am I speaking for?
And who is ready to hear me?

I tried so hard to picture tomorrow
But my vision looks blury
My eyes go teary-minds weary
So with the last drop of blood in our tiny veins
We shall give it up all but not in vain

This is our contribution in building the Nation
This is our voices--- a voice
Our choices------a choice
Our struggle------a struggle

So our lives today we shall save to die another day if we fight for it today!!
Ehis Abuya

Hope the Press were invited?

I am so much interested in dis organisation but I am some too far from Lagos...I guess the SOUTH-SOUTH VERSION shud spring up because all NIGERIANS UNEMPLOYED GRADUATES can't gather in one place because of engagement...Dis a tin my Bros and I were trying to reason out/form here in Warri...I love it badly
Anyway I have called Ehis dat I hv engagement n sti told him I am highly interested in dis organisation. I will sti call after the meeting to know the resolution made..

Amen and Amen

RedBenson:

Wonderful!!! So gracious! It shall be a success IJN-amen.

Am aware of some people in diff geo-political zones glamouring to hold meetings in thier respective states/zones on the same 7th of September. Contrary to that, i will suggest no meeting shld be held anywhere else until the outcome of the Lagos meeting is made known thru here (Nairaland) and other sources. This is to avoid contracting the aims and objectives of the association but shld rather have everything in sequence thru the informatn made available here after the meeting. Once the outcome is made known, states/zones can now gather thier members and deliberate based on what was deliberated in the Lagos meeting and as well as electing thier excos. That will help to carry everyone along in sequential order nationwide without contraction. Thanks.

its good to be in lagos

hope to see you all tomorow

i hope we all are going to be puntual

dont forget we are all graduates

and it should show in our behaviour

The Ibadan crew have landed in Lagos

Where are u guys from other parts of Nigeria

Expecially those nearby (abeokuta,ife,oyo,ijebu,)

Where are u guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ehixking: The Ibadan crew have landed in Lagos

Where are u guys from other parts of Nigeria

Expecially those nearby (abeokuta,ife,oyo,ijebu,)

Where are u guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Ibadan crew constitutes how many people?

Just called you now no pickup..

Will d association be collecting dues abi na politician wan fund am

hope the meeting has kicked off as planned

hope the meeting has kicked off as planned,looking forward updates because it wasnt possible for me to be there physically

If rrape victims,gays and lesbians could come out to voice out their minds,my heart bleeds for those that though jobless finds it difficult to identify with a group with the idea of kicking against unemployment

The desire to form an association that is aimed at kicking against unemployment commenced yesterday in Lagos despite discouragement by some Nigerians who probably might also be jobless yet decides to "package" their problems
They are the CEO's we see on facebook yet they still depend on their parents for recharge cards.

"Kendric Tejiro resides in Delta state yet he came down to Lagos,battled with traffic, slept in a church, had very little for dinner and no breakfast the next morning just to attended the first meeting"

Barrister ikeri okey took a flight from Imo state left his chambers,his family and clients graced the occasion and returned that same day to Imo state,

Oyo-ita effiong came all the way from benin to Lagos despite he's tight schedules
Sandra kayero,John odianose came from Ibadan,
Dammy from Abeokuta Ogun state , Oni Michael from Sango otta ogun state. Just to mention a few.
So many young men and women left their wives,kids and families just to make history
Well,all I can say is nothing but every man would reap according to what he sows!!what else or what more do we want from patriotic Nigerians.

The meeting was held at Unilag sport centre as earlier announced.
It commenced about 10am although we didn't allow the media into the meeting due to the fact that it just the first meeting, offices were assigned to willing and ready member
Posts include(all interim)
National coordinator
Three PRO
Two Secretaries
Four Mobilisation officers
Administrative officers(Facebook,twitter handlers,website and blog managers)

We concluded on 3 names to be forwarded to the cooperate affairs commission as the official name of the Association

Amongst the criteria for registration includes trustees selection(2 each from each geopolitical zones) which we did and hope to contact them
A constitution committee was set aside to work on the constitution and report in 3 weeks
A lot of issues were discussed,resolved,added subtracted and we all saw the meeting as a huge step in achieving a socio-economical height in the nearest future. The National coordinator gave a wonderful opening speech which was like a blueprint on which the hinges of the meeting turned.
We were blessed by the presence of wise and fast thinking individuals
Ayodeji babalola was a great contributor, oyo-ita Effiong indeed is an orator
Kendrick Tejiro took everything to another level breaking down plans like he has done the appraisal before,Men were more than women

Oni michael added a whole lot of wisdom and experience to the meeting giving several ideas on how to go about tackling our problems in Nigeria.
Shomoye Damilola gave the closing remark and the long waited item 7 followed.
And I must mention that am not impressed by the Lagosians turn out....
Nigeria is the only country we have
Youths must stand up because we are the leaders of tomorrow
Its time to come out and claim what's rightfully ours
Let's reason together, we have no money and we don't intend soliciting for money at all,our strength and confidence is in our number
Let come out in mass and let our voices merge into one and speak in onenes. The world must hear our cry and know what we fighting is a for the betterment of all Nigeria unemployed and under employed graduate.
MISSION/VISSION(summary)
NB(still working on the constitution)
Boosting Agriculture and industrialisation,
Ban of any goods that can be produced in Nigeria,
Pushing of memorandum to the house of assembly for the payment of unengaged nigerian graduates,
Influencing government policies to improve the job market for graduates,
kicking against sales of jobs,
Kicking against ambiguous and frivolous criteria for job recruitment eg Age, working experience,Tribalism,state of origin,Language,

Thanks to all those present and those who couldn't make it because the are far away and those who where unavoidably absent..
Thank you guys so much
From the National coordinator
Ehis Abuya

With reference to the minute of the last meeting.

[size=14pt]I carefully read thru with glint of smile and accomplishment glaring through my face and heart.
I know it wasn't an easy move as the first step is usually the hardest but all thanks to God for haven made it a success.
The out come of the meeting is a huge success beyond my expectation considering the listed accomplishments. Kudos to all who aided it directly or indirectly.[/size]

However I still suggest for a slight change in the "name" cos from my observation, its a huge turn-off as most interested persons wouldn't want to identify with such as it is.
The facebook page has less than 1000 persons and most interested individuals wouldn't want to like the page so it dos'nt send notifications to their timeline where the world could see it. The general notion about "unemployment" is joblessnes and most people wouldn't want to be stigmatised with such and the pity that comes with it.
So please mr ehis abuya (national co-ordinator) do look into it.

Thanks.

@oubi, the name has been resolved,though changes are ¥et to be made on fbk page

If only the National Directorate of Employment could tell us how they arrived at the conclusion that just 3.3 million Nigerians are unemployed out of a total of 170 million people.
If only the National Directorate of Employment could tell us how the census was conducted,and the people that were counted
Nigerians need answers to how many youth coppers were retained after service

NDE Director-General, Mallam Abubakar Mohammed said the directorate had in October last year introduced the scheme to create jobs as well as “solve the national malaise of mass failure in public examinations’’.

According to him, the scheme is aimed at helping candidates with deficiencies in public examinations, such as West African Examinations Council (WAEC), National Examination Council (NECO) and Joint Admissions Matriculation Board(JAMB), to improve their grades through proper coaching.

Has he forgotten graduates are jobless
Why not help those qualified graduates to get jobs than coaching WAEC and JAMB failures

We want to know if there are NDE Co-ordinator in all 36 states of the federation and what they have been doing to solve unemployment!!!
Tell us, we need to know
Thanks
Ehis Abuya

@ehix, you did mention of abt three names set aside to be registered with CAC in respect to the name change of the association. May we know those names you people selected at the end of the meeting? Thanks.

Did you know that?
1) Nigeria has plans, agendas and policies that ranks amongst the best in the world
2) The RBDA(which is an imitation of the Tennessee river basin development authority of USA that provided jobs to at least 2million americans), even with this same motive of job creation to employ youths, make nigeria self sufficient in fish production,provide water for irrigation to rural farmer and provide electricity

But the last time I was in Ogun-osun river basin in Abeokuta what I saw was different
1)Workers sleeping,
2)Pure water production and packaging
3) Dilapidated offices and building
4)Everything in a state of despair

Boards after boards and committees after committees would squander money on holding meetings and after the money has been shared into various bank accounts, the amount that gets to the Managing director won't be enough for anything and he also, being a part of the system might just do justice to the money and it goes on and on till....nothing tangible is achieved
Until we the youth come out to fight corruption, mismanagement of public funds and stress the need for industrialisation and Agriculture we would keep employing staffs to sleep,ministries won't work and unemployment will increase at a rate we never thought it would.
Until we graduates demand our right to build our nation ourselves- graduate would keep taking 10,000 Naira jobs and think that's the end of the world.

Ehis Abuya

RedBenson: @ehix, you did mention of abt three names set aside to be registered with CAC in respect to the name change of the association. May we know those names you people selected at the end of the meeting? Thanks.

Nigerian Association of unemployed graduates

Association of unemployed graduate of Nigeria

Association of Nigerian graduate against unemployment
(This had the higest vote)

Did you know that?
1) Nigeria has plans, agendas and policies that ranks amongst the best in the world
2) The RBDA(which is an imitation of the Tennessee river basin development authority of USA that provided jobs to at least 2million americans), even with this same motive of job creation to employ youths, make nigeria self sufficient in fish production,provide water for irrigation to rural farmer and provide electricity

But the last time I was in Ogun-osun river basin in Abeokuta what I saw was different
1)Workers sleeping,
2)Pure water production and packaging
3) Dilapidated offices and building
4)Everything in a state of despair

Boards after boards and committees after committees would squander money on holding meetings and after the money has been shared into various bank accounts, the amount that gets to the Managing director won't be enough for anything and he also, being a part of the system might just do justice to the money and it goes on and on till....nothing tangible is achieved
Until we the youth come out to fight corruption, mismanagement of public funds and stress the need for industrialisation and Agriculture we would keep employing staffs to sleep,ministries won't work and unemployment will increase at a rate we never thought it would.
Until we graduates demand our right to build our nation ourselves- graduate would keep taking 10,000 Naira jobs and think that's the end of the world.

Ehis Abuya

I was surprise to see some post on this trend where some ppl are abusing ppl organizing stuff like this i must say this , this is 1 of the reason why we have problem as a nation where we are always ok with every condition we find our self , challenging ur condition will bring solution in many instance .i don t think there is any family in this country without a member without a job so wht are will now saying. Kudos to the brain behind this initiative ppl should come up with idea that can help this ppl and help our nation as a whole like have seen on this post that dey should have a website where employer can call ppl for short time employment. i also want to suggest if dey can have a way in which HSE can be past into law in this country many graduate are now certified in HSE, many country of the world HSE is a must for any contractor to get any work from government or from private sector . This sector if put into law that every company should have Health safety and environment department it will employ many unemployed graduates.

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