Estimation Of Unemployed Nigerian Graduates

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National Directorate of Employment (NDE) yesterday said it has registered over 3.3 million unemployed persons in various parts of the country even as it called for extension of the period of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme by one year.

Director-General of NDE, Engr. Samuel Adelodun while addressing the Nigerian News world Leadership Forum in Abuja, stated that the figure was arrived at after a nationwide survey it conducted in July, this year.

In the figure released at the Forum, Adelodun stated that Kano state topped the list of states with 11. 07 per cent of unemployed persons indicating a total of 369, 139, followed by Lagos (353, 097); Bauchi (221, 166); Katsina (137, 365); Ebonyi (120, 072) and Jigawa (106, 049).

He added that the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has the least number of unemployed persons as it was discovered that registered unemployed persons were only 34, 638 or 1.04 per cent of the cumulative national figure.

On sex distribution of the unemployment index, he stated that males were discovered to be twice more unemployed than the females, but attributed this to cultural, religious and other factors, "which might prevent some people from coming up to register themselves as unemployed".

Grouping the data on geo-political zone basis, Adelodun explained that the North West was highest with 846, 872 (24.4 per cent), followed by the South-West 718, 789 (21.56 per cent), North East 547, 759 (16.49 per cent), South East 430, 845 (12.97 per cent); South South 401, 234 (12.03 per cent) and North Central with 386, 590 (11.60 per cent) of the unemployed.

Adelodun noted that 74 per cent of the registered unemployed persons fall within the age bracket of 15 to 34 years, adding that 65 percent of the total unemployed persons are either primary or secondary school leavers, while 18b per cent of the total had no formal education.

He listed a critical factor which inhibited the credibility of NDE studies to include inability of some people to ascertain their employment status, cultural and religious barriers, while lack of information formed another stumbling block.

The NDE boss explained that in its desire to find solutions to increasing unemployment situation in the country, it designed a lot of programmes, but lamented that neither the states nor local government councils indicated further interests after they had been exposed to such programmes through workshops.

For instance, he explained how he had conceptualized and exposed states and local government officials to methods of reducing unemployment through the designing of various skill acquisition programmes, road building and maintenance programmes, stressing that "they sooner abandoned these laudable programmes and never asker further questions about these programmes after the seminar".


He lamented the deployment of the youth to thuggery and other negative vices by politicians, stressing that "it is unfortunate that politicians use the youths in politics but abandon them when it comes to the issue of securing employment or matters that will help them in life".

On the call for two years NYSC for tertiary institutions leavers, he pointed out that the second year would enable those who had no discernible means of the preferred wage employment to be exposed to various skills that would enable them provide for themselves.

He cited the successes achieved in the Graduate Assistant Programme (GAP) scheme of NDE as one instance success which helped the organization provide skills and employment for 3,000 graduates who graduated more than three years ago.