maclatunji:


The West is not doing well economically. I am more interested in emerging markets. Nigeria is one of them. Imagine us taking outsourced jobs from West African countries, South Africa, East Africa, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia etc because we are good at it and can do it cheaper.

If you doubt our ability as a people to achieve this, just walk into a major cyber cafe in any city and see how young people are using similar skills for crime. If they can use basic technology for crime, imagine what we can use it for legally.

barcanista:
There are lots of b®illiant policies and plans by government since 1960. The challenge we have is sincerity and the political will to implement them to the letter. This your idea like others is not bad but "Do we have the infrastructure"? We can't run when we are yet to walk. OÑe major Challenge those countries you meantined are facing is the problem of "cheap" labour. How do we tackle that considering how expensive commodities are in Nigeria? It is not just about "creating jobs", it is about creating job that will impact on the lives of the citizenry. The citizens ought to get value for the work they do and not the opposite.

We must and should fix relevant sectors like power, manufacturing, financial, tourism, mining, Agricultural, petroleum etc if we ever want to create a sustainable country that will be employment haven not just for our citizens alone, but will attract foreigners. Most importantly, we must fix our Educational and reposition our socio-political sectors. Without doing these things, we will continue to chase shadows.

I hope I make sense

Obiagelli:

We can have waivers on solar equipments for instance, there several ways to generate electricity expecially with small IPPs, we don't necessarily have to start building gas pipelines

lyntiffany:
you made sense bro, most especially your point in agriculture.Do yo know that in US their economic strength is mostly based on Agriculture? If Nigeria wants to cut down the rate of unemployment she should invest heavily in agriculture.
The federal government should create an agricultural farm own by the federal government just as we have in health ( Teaching Hospitals ) which will be managed and run by them.
This farm will cover every sector in agriculture such as crop production, Animal husbandry, fishery production, forestry and reserve, horticulture, Processing and storage e.t.c.
Once a graduate is out from service he or she should be employed immediately and agric is not only for graduates even the non educated ones can be gainfully employed but to be on a safe side the minimum of SSCE will be least required, if government can look in to these things they are a lot of manufacturing, processing, production, storage and reserve which can be gained from agriculture alone in these country.Hope I made sense too.

ApexTitan:


I can't imagine what you talk about, a large number of jobs that are outsourced from the west usually end up in India, Vietnam and the Phillipines, (very few end up in Africa). Nigeria still has a ways to go in luring companies and such jobs away from those countries. They have over time built conditions and a workforce that is adept in handling outsourced jobs. Even if we immediately get the right conditions for attracting those jobs we would be competing not only with those countries who already have the advantage in this area but also with the growing sentiment of resistance to outsourcing. I highly doubt this is a sustainable policy for job creation.

Btw don't let the fraudsters in our cyber cafes fool you into believing we are a particularly high tech inclined society, we aren't.

barcanista:
Exactly my dear. The government should be more interested to embark in policies such as this that has long term advantage rather that a quick fix.the so-called "outsourced" jobs aren't too bad but considering the peanuts they pay and the long hours workers put in, it is not only unsustainable but could be likened to advanced slavery.

maclatunji:


#Hehehehe

YouWin, GIS are all ineffective short term strategies of the present government. We can create millions of jobs at a fraction of the amount wasted on these and similar programmes of the present government with my suggestion and similar ideas.

You should have short, medium and long-term plans to solving the unemployment problem.

My idea is a simple, easy-to-implement and effective short-term plan.

You can't pay unemployed youths from your pocket, I am sure millions would rather be employed with this idea than read your idealism.

maclatunji:


What kind of reasoning dictates to you that Nigeria cannot compete with the likes of India, The Philippines and Vietnam? If we cannot compete with these countries for service jobs, we might as well go back to being a British .

ApexTitan:


You are talking about attracting outsourced jobs as a way of generating employment in
Nigeria but I don't think you appreciate realities of the international market especially in this sector. This is not a question of what Nigerians are capable of it is a question of how sustainable such a drive would be.

Are you aware that in the US, the largest origin of outsourced jobs, there are currently moves in place to reduce if not stop outsourcing?

maclatunji:



YouWin, GIS are all ineffective short term strategies of the present government.

maclatunji:
Unemployment is a huge problem in Nigeria, the last uncontroversial rate from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) for 2011 shows 23.9% of the population is unemployed. However, unemployment amongst the youth is much higher.

This dire situation makes it imperative for government and citizens to seek viable solutions to this problem. This article is my contribution in this regard and it focuses on Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) as a means towards generating employment in Nigeria.

According to Wikipedia, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is a subset of outsourcing that involves the contracting of the operations and responsibilities of a specific business process to a third-party service provider.

Statista estimates that the global market size of business process outsourcing in 2014 amounted to 28.5 billion U.S. dollars.

This business has huge potential for creating hundreds of thousands to millions of jobs in Nigeria if the government implements the appropriate policies and enters into partnership with the private sector including foreign investors to create tech hubs.

The kinds of jobs that would be created include: call center agents, data entry officers and analysts. Nigeria's Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector has grown astronomically since the introduction of GSM in 2001 and the country now has 100% telephone penetration according to the National Communications Commission (NCC) meaning that virtually every Nigerian has access to a phone and as technology advances; the skill set of users keeps improving including many educated but unemployed youths.

By creating tech hubs that benefit from tax breaks and stable electricity supply from off-grid Independent Power Plants {IPPs), the government can easily create jobs to reduce the alarming rate of unemployment in Nigeria. If each tech hub has at least 1,000 workstations, employees could work 6-hour shifts meaning one workstation can accommodate 4 employees in a day.

100 tech hubs could be open across the country with Lagos, Abeokuta, Ibadan, Port Harcourt, Calabar, Enugu, Onitsha Owerri, Abuja, Kano, Kaduna and Jos hosting them in the first phase. This could be expanded to ensure that there is at least 1 tech hub in every state of the federation within a year.

Training would be done to bring job applicants to the standard required to do these jobs. With 4,000 jobs created at every tech hub multiplied by 100, we have 400,000 direct jobs created with about 100,000 related jobs to be created as well from the process of building, maintaining and sustaining the tech hubs. This is an estimate for just the first year, in 4 years, 2 million jobs could be created as the industry expands and services are provided to foreign companies.

This idea is viable and feasible as countries like India and The Philippines have benefitted from BPO, I hope the in-coming government of General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd.) will work towards implementing or at least modifying it as it seeks to deliver new jobs to the unemployed which is one of its key campaign promises to Nigerians.

Source: http://www.coolstuff49ja.com/2015/04/how-gen-buhari-can-create-2-milllion.html#.VTAxz8aiQmc

iniestar1:
When u have a visionary Leader,intellectual people show their worth.....well done OP

maclatunji:


Have you read the post at all?

They will be working at the very least for 6 hours a day at jobs that demand productivity.

As e-business and online retailing in particular expand in Nigeria and other emerging markets,, there is going to be the need for customer service, telemarketing, data entry and analyst positions to be filled.

This provides an opportunity to employ a lot of young people and remove them from poverty. I am suggesting that the incoming government actively leverages on this to create jobs.

Is it becoming clearer to you now?

maclatunji:


The United States is a declining economic power, my plan discounts jobs outsourced from America. #Hehe

See how the world is embracing China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as an alternative to America-backed World Bank.
http://www.npr.org/2015/04/16/400178364/finance-officials-to-discuss-asian-development-bank-at-spring-meetings

You are living in yesterday's world.

Look at how Nigeria is seamlessly switching to digital broadcasting with a simple decision of the NTA to partner with China's Star Times.

The opportunities are here if you open your eyes and stop engaging in dubious over-intellectualism.

barcanista:
There are lots of b®illiant policies and plans by government since 1960. The challenge we have is sincerity and the political will to implement them to the letter. This your idea like others is not bad but "Do we have the infrastructure"? We can't run when we are yet to walk. OÑe major Challenge those countries you meantined are facing is the problem of "cheap" labour. How do we tackle that considering how expensive commodities are in Nigeria? It is not just about "creating jobs", it is about creating job that will impact on the lives of the citizenry. The citizens ought to get value for the work they do and not the opposite.

We must and should fix relevant sectors like power, manufacturing, financial, tourism, mining, Agricultural, petroleum etc if we ever want to create a sustainable country that will be employment haven not just for our citizens alone, but will attract foreigners. Most importantly, we must fix our Educational and reposition our socio-political sectors. Without doing these things, we will continue to chase shadows.

I hope I make sense

jbaby4u:
Yes it will create more jobs with a salary below average. Do you know how much call center agents in Airtel under BPO are been paid? ( 35k) per month for Bsc holder and they work for 7-8hrs, is that the kind of slavery you want your siblings to be subjected to all in the name of outsourcing in your own country? Why in MTN, they have different salary range for same Bsc,while some earn above 100k with staff lines and other benefit some earn below 90k without staff lines and other benefits yet both work under the same BPO or is it Glo that some CCRS earns 180k and others 72k with the same job Responsiblities or Etisalat where the outsourcing staffs monthly take home is 50k. I can only encourage such to this present govt if only labour union can look critically into it properly and correct these irregularities within the BPO. Imagine what these lebanese and India people can't do in their country they are given the free hand to do it in our country with the help of our own people all in the name of creating more jobs via BPO. Or have you forgotten so soon what happened to call center agents in Jos few years back contracted to CNSSL by MTN through this same BPO you are talking about. Even the Nigerian labour union could not do anything to salvage the situation

chymystique:
Mr MaclaTunji For Minister of Commerce and Industry! ...
Very Nice suggestion for the benefits of the economy and also For the youths of today cause the rate of unemployment in Nigeria of recent years is quite alarming an yearly millions of youths from our higher instituitons are pushed into the labour market with little or no Jobs available for them. Lets hope GMB's administration taps into this great idea @least for starters it will reduce unemloyment rate by 5%.