I have gone through the length and breadth of Nairaland, similar Nigerian sites and newspapers and discovered a common thread: No jobs for graduates after graduation for upwards of 10 years! . This is very disturbing. For a graduate to come out of school means the parents or guardians or even the graduate must have spent over N2million. For these graduates to come out  without finding any jobs means a huge waste of resources of the parents, guardians or individuals. The money spent could set up many lucrative businesses for those concerned because education has been "wasted" on them. I hereby suggest that the Government refund unemployed graduates their full tuition fees from year 1 to Final year or what do you think?

You've just raised a very intelligent issue.

It'll be a very big relief to the parents if it's made possible by those on top. This could actually be a good political promise to win the hearts and minds of voters. Don't underrate the polticians

This is the international joke of the year? The Government can afford to do it but will they do it? My answer is a definitive NO. Was it not the ex-president ([b]Obj[/b]ective) that asked foreign Governments to start deporting Nigerians from abroad telling them there are plenty of jobs in Nigeria? You see, the goverment doesn't look at things the way we lay people look at them. To them, Naija is a land flowing with milk and honey. The unemployment rate exists only in their imagination. How would people with such mindsets implement such laudable programme as you've suggested?

I no wan' laugh today

When our external reserves are upto $45bn why won't the government implement such a populist programme and earn themselves a good name for once?!

or do you really think they care about what happens to you and I? methink they'd rather use the money to play Baba Ijebu (ask your neighbour the meaning) rather than implementing such programme. I swear.

The wolves don't give a damn. Just know this. They've been to all countries and know what obtains there. If they want to do it, they can, yes, they can. See what Fashola is doing in lagos. He's just copying London and U.S. This goes to show that we can achieve what we want to achieve. God dey.

at post,
while your post remained useful and sensible,you have to contrast it in the other way round. If the government will implement this, how is it going to be justified, that one has graduated for the past ten yrs or thereabout? Remember,how clever we Nigerians can be. You will see, there is going to be fake and unjustifiable results all over the country, people claiming that they have graduated for the past 50 yrs without job.
Bear in mind that if the government is going to pay back like 2 million to unemployed graduates, so have it at the back of your mind that it will be the same law makers relatives will go home with the amount stipulated for the project.
The idea is good but i don't see Nigeria working effectively to that.

May be a trial will convince us

Sincerely, the topic of this thread is very funny!

I can't laugh oooooooo

why not propose also that all secondary school students who can't proceed to higher institutions should be given their fees back. Stupid! 

Why should you go to school and wanna depend on another person for your living. we are no more in the iindustrialisedage where you get work even before finishing, you are in a global world where information rules.Your skills,experience and informations is your strenght.

Moderator!
Please move to joke section.
Maybe government would also take all the knowledge that was impacted on the graduates.

meekm u dey vex oooo
hope say govt go hear u.

Poster you are not serious about this.

Govt. should refund sch fees of unemployed graduate.

That is an absurd remark.
For you to be a graduate and think like this, its easy to see why some are jobless for upward of 10 yrs.

why cant the graduate refund the knowledge first, please this can't happen, excuse me mr poster are a graduate or a passout?

what bullshit. do you think we are paying school fees in naija? for the most part education, is FREE. at least it was back in 2001, when i graduated.

This suggestion is want of a better word stupid. You cannot buy your way out of a dire situation such as this. What rather I would advocate is that unemployed folks gather together to form a strong body that will, by peaceful means, on appointed days of the month march on the capital city. That is the only way change will come. The government policies are not encouraging investors to come and set up shop in Nigeria, those in Nigeria, apart from the oil, telcos and motor industry are abandoning us for our neighbours. Our infrastructure is non existent (in comparison to 3rd world nations as ourselves). No direct government program/policies or sponsorship to encourage small business which are the main stay of any economy. Implementing such 'hand out' or 'bail out'  program would only make Nigeria a laughing stock, encourage further corruption, deception and rubber stamp laziness.

If you have been unemployed 10 years after your graduation, then the issue is you and not the government, check yourself out, check your association, drop the title, and get your hands dirty. This is one thing if nothing at all that going to a foreign country has thought most Nigerians. It is not your degree, but your determination.

The reason why I went to school was not just to get a certificate and get employed but to learn. So I am not regretting. And I don,t discourage the younger ones from going to school but I encourage them to read their books and try to discover their God given talents.

This is a wise suggestion but some of you that are now employed believe it isn't; the way things are done here in Nigeria I wonder what will be left for those yet unborn. The condition of life here is so poor that it take the Grace of God to even pass through a day; in the mind of the guy who made the suggestion he know it is not possible but it is important that the government should be made to understand our suffering one way or the other. There is relative peace in the country for now because our language is different; if we are truly united the government will seat up. We all witness what happened in Ukraine and Haiti, when the governments of both country was ordered to leave the state house by the people. They know we are not united; they have completely deceived us to the extent that when I listen to some people speak, I feel like crying, some of us earn to level of salary and we feel that is what our counterpart in order parts of the world with similar profession take home; have you considered that some people still earn N5,000 or even less on a monthly basis.

Visit Matori Industrial Estate and see what our Youth even Graduates are passing through, visit some refuse dump.

We know it is not the duty of the government but will I be wrong to say that the government should build factories and mechinised farms, and serious IT centers in all the state of the federation in order to accomodate those who are willing to work; it could be in line with the PSP initiative and they should ensure that every is insured unlike what is obtainable in the India companies

The suggestion is laughable. We admit the government is not doing their best, but to ask for refund of school fees because somebody cannot get job is ridiculous. How about the self-employed people? Was it government that got them job?

na real wa oh.

@Poster.

I believe what you are proposing is a walfare system. It makes sense, and its successfully applied in the west.

If the right conditions are applied, then it should work.

However, many unemployed are simply unemployed because they look down on certain jobs, considered to be menial and beneath their 'graduate' status.

Nobody went to school for the Government.We went to school to be librated minds.
Government should be held responsible (or at ramsome if you like) on the areas of tax and collective resources management.
Its a pity there is no job for everyone and they are not doing enough to create jobs.As a Graduate,be creative,
do not depend on the government.

I think we need this kinda jokes in a time like this when the whole world is collapsing and people aint laffing no more, so thanks for making us to laff.

1. I cant remember any country in the world that promises a job after graduation.
2. I cant remember any nation in the world that is primarily responsible for the job creation?
3. In developed world, graduates dont have to depend on the government to employ them.

Nigeria is a sorry case however, i think they should pay the students back for lack of electricity to read, lack of good raod to get to class on time, and tress caused by insecurity that the nation has given to them citizens.

I don't tink ds is totally fair 2 d F.G, Agreed dt d F.G is wantin to sum extent,bt a big ques is how many of d graduates r realy employable. We'v had cases of computer graduates who can't use MSword, English lang grads who can't finish a sentence, i'm nt tryin 2 b mr.know all,but in all fairness by fellow NLers, will we say d F.G is totally guilty in all this?

dis na d best topic so far, i totally agree wit d poster , but e 4 funny ooooooo!!!

u get education 4 urself,to develop ur mind and better ur self.u dont get educated 4 d govt. I TOTALLY understand where u ar cmin from though.

How many pple govt. wan reimburse.

All the monies spent on sch fees are always non-refundable.

Now u want to take advantage of the global meltdown and kill 9ga govt. finally? It 'll never happen.

oluite:

u get education 4 urself,to develop ur mind and better ur self.u dont get educated 4 d govt. I TOTALLY understand where u ar cmin from though.

Moreover, its not as if the jobs are not there, its just that 9ja graduates are too big 4 certain jobs.

Just imagine the kind of reply u wld get frm a graduate if u asked him/her to work in a local govt.

We all want jobs that pays 1m monthly!

wat now happens when d graduate gets employed? will he/she refund govt? Govt cant provide job 4 everyone but can provide an enabling environment for every graduates 2get employed.i think govt shd let pple study courses dat relate 2 agriculture and entreprenueship free of charge in our universities ( even without going thru jamb)