Senate Should Pass A Bill To Stop Employment Age Discrimination. What happens to the youths above 30 years? Are they not Nigerians? Who should provide jobs for them? Considering the struggle and delay that Nigerian Youths go through to have a university education coupled with incessant strikes, there should be NO age barrier to job employment. If FG jobs can peg age limit at 30, why should we still allow politicians to contest at age above 60 years? Check FRSC, Nigeria Prison Service, Police recruitment and the likes, the maximum age limit is between 28-30 years.
Job seekers are confronted with many barriers. Of all the problems, age appears to take the lead. Even when the applicant is qualified for the job, his age can be an obstacle, writes MUYIWA LUCAS.
THE number of the country’s unemployed youths may continue to grow in leaps and bounds. This is because of a seeming clog employers have placed in the way of job seekers. Presently, not only must a job seeker graduate with very high grades, his age at the time of seeking employment has now become as equally important as his good grades.
At business districts, they are noticeable as they comb the streets in a well dressed suit, moving from offices to offices to submit job applications but during the short-listing; most companies dump their applications despite their impressive CV.
Hakeem Akintunde used to be a victim of age barrier in the labour market but the US visa lottery which he won in 2013 helped him out of the quagmire. He finished his degree at the age of 28 but most of the jobs he applied for turned him down because he did not qualify for age benchmark of 25 at a new generation bank among several others.
He is not alone. Uche Chiwendu finished her degree at the age of 26 from University of Port Harcourt with 2.1 grade in Accounting. She applied for a job at a leading auditing firm in Lagos. She was called for interview but at the final stage of the interview which she passed, the head of the interview team praised her for displaying excellence performance. She was however told that part of the company policy is that any candidate at the entry level should not be more than 23yrs. Chiwendu almost collapsed.
Sometimes in 2013, Tue July 2, KPMG International, a global network of professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services advertised job vacancy for graduate trainee copied on www. with job reference number J2013. With 100 slots available in Lagos, the company requested that interested candidates should posses’ first class or second class (Upper) in any discipline, five O’level credits (including English & Math) at one sitting with an age ceaveat: “Not more than 26 years.”
Age discrimination in employment has become a major problem facing graduates and non-graduates in Nigeria. It has continued to enhance the unemployment situation in the country. Take a look at vacancy adverts in Nigeria and you will see how they are equipped with age restrictions and sometime certificate barriers. A typical example reads, “Candidate must not be more than 25 years of age, must possess a good university degree with a second class honours (Upper division). Candidate must have at least 10 to 15 years of experience”. Emphasis hardly placed on competence.
Sadly, a practice which was mainly associated with the banking industry has spread to other sectors. Today, government institutions Champion this course. Even foreign companies indulge in the practice when they do not have similar conditions in their own countries.
President General of Trade Union Congress (TUC) Comrade Bobooi Bala described age barrier in employment requirement as an unwholesome development.
“In other parts of the world, employers look at your competence. They never bother with your age as long as you can do the work efficiently. In the US, you see people still getting new jobs at 50; people are still working at 60 years. There is another thing they do here. They ask for seven, eight years experience. Can anybody acquire experience without first getting a job? It is really sad. People are taking advantage of the unemployment situation.”
Akintunde Ojo, a businessman, said employers are not inserting the age clause to prevent any class of people from getting employed. They are just looking for the best in terms of efficiency and disposition.
“You know the older you are, the tendency for you to be slowed down by age. I also tried in vain to get paid employment. My inability to get a job after six years of leaving the university, made me go into auto spares business.”
He, however, added that not everyone would be able to raise capital from family members like he did. He appealed to employers to consider the state of the nation and try to remove the age clause from vacancy adverts.
Comrade Lateef Oyelekan, President, National Union of Food Beverage and Tobacco Employees (NUFBTE), appealed to employers to remove the age clause, and consider competence instead of insisting on employing people within a certain age bracket only. He said they should also consider experience in their search for workers as experience goes hand in hand with age.
“Many people are frustrated, not because they cannot acquire the necessary qualification needed to secure employment, but because employers make them feel rejected. Many have lost hope.
“Employers should consider older citizens who have the required qualification for jobs,” he said.
The National Assemby has made efforts in the past to ensure that employers at all levels remove age barrier clause in their employment criteria. An Act to prohibit age discrimination in employment in the public and private Sectors in Nigeria sponsored by Hon. Hassan El-Badawywas debated but nothing has come out of the assembly.
With age discrimination in the labour market, a job recruitment expert, Mr. Michael Omole, said most Nigerians studying part time programmes without being engaged in a job already might not have a company to employ them as a result of age barrier which prevented them from going to school on time. He said government should enact the bill on age discrimination in other to make companies stop this act.
Source: https://www.thenationonlineng.net/age-barrier

majamajic:


Bros once it affect drink and smoke, do u think it won't affect olosho ? cos I know if a man don't drink or smoke, he is very good in women affairs.

Sense wee north kee yoo one day my broda

That one na the problem of smokers and drinkers

engrfcuksmtin:
33 is now 220 naira in my areoa. Buhari why?

In my area they sell that particular 33 for #250

If they like let them place 100% tax. Shack and smoke must continue.

Apc and its bandwagon is bent on taking every bit of happiness nigerians enjoy.

Who knows maybe they're trying to curb the amount of drunkards and chronic smokers
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Chai

Chai

Chai!!!!!!

This Government don F.U.CK up...

I dunno what the fuss is about, this is a welcome development. Alcohol and cigarettes especially is expensive in most countries. Did you see the comparative tax with other countries on this goods. We charge way low.
We should be objective for once, this is not about Buhari, this is about strengthening the economy and curbing abuse. Go to Germany, a pack of cigarette is sold 10euros. That is almost 5k in naira. We should be worried about our country not about the president.

And this tax is for foreign brand not local beverage industries. Peace!

Alcohol keeps many angry Nigerians calm. It is a good development maybe the anger that has being bottled up over the years will be finally unleashed

blakid:
Hope my Star Radla is not involved in this development.

star Radler gang

APC should not try this shite.. why let them leave hero for this poo talk..HERO.is #200 Everywhere u go even here in sokoto.

Smoking and drinking should even be banned outrightly throughout the country....

Drunkards and smokers to pay more not Nigerians. You don’t have to be a Nigerian to buy cigarettes and alcohol. I don’t know why our journalists are not professional enough in information dissemination

At Quilox in Victoria Island a bottle of beer is #7,000 and i can still afford to buy it, make Buhari increase the prices of beer in our local beer parlour, i will still be able to buy it, i dont care at all. Nothing concern me with cigarrete cos i dont smoke

Solstar:
I hope it will not affect palmy.

Palmy is a free gift from God

Nigerians should wake up against this government before is too late imagine this ass hole with this mess err

there was once, a people! smh

chyy5:
What n0nsense is this? Beer that makes us forget this useless government they want to hike the price.Anything that Easterners and southerners consume is always a target. The money will still be used to develop North

Ethnic bigotry is now driving a lot of people to almost insane. Even as that, there's a level of midiocrity that we must not advertise just because we must comment. So you think that it is only the south East and South South People that consume alcohol and cigarettes? Please ask people who leave in the North, you don't drink morethan those Hausa people.

Akinpelumusibau:
At Quilox in Victoria Island a bottle of beer is #7,000 and i can still afford to buy it, make Buhari increase the prices of beer in our local beer parlour, i will still be able to buy it, i dont care at all. Nothing concern me with cigarrete cos i dont smoke

Good for you.

Already NB. Nd Co raised there bill since 1st Of June, that I am 100% sure..
As for me, nah Heritage get. Me now...

No, you know say star radla na pito or agbo?

blakid:
Hope my Star Radla is not involved in this development.

As far we dey see money buy am , Who cares, if you like put am 1million per stick and a bottle of beer for 2million naira . Na money be the main factor. MAKE GOD DEY PROVIDE

princeatom:
Drunkards and smokers to pay more not Nigerians. You don’t have to be a Nigerian to buy cigarettes and alcohol. I don’t know why our journalists are not professional enough in information dissemination

You have made the best points so far.

pyyxxaro:
HOPE IT WONT AFFECT THE PRICE OF OLIVE OIL


NAA TO PUT SMALL IGBOO SEED /LEAF MAKE THE OLIVE OIL HOT


AT ALL AT ALL NAIM BAD PASS

Chimo! Olive oil and igbo. What a wiket kombianashion!

contigiency:


Good for you.

Thank U bro

If it doesn't affect Vaseline then nothing concerns me.
I drink, I love my beer. In times like this na to move to the cheapest drinking spot available. A few tens of naira increment is a small price to pay for drinking boredom away.

post=68152923:
SAY NO TO DRUGS

THIS GUY MUST BE AN ISLAMIST

If buhari were a real Muslim he should be ashamed of himself for collecting taxes from alcohol because haram in their religion

Na waoh this one will be bad news to chronic alcoholics/drunkards and chain smokers in naija