for these key reasons

Improper education
Bad-reputation
Cultural setbacks



Improper Education
Nigeria is not a land of plenty for the illiterate. With an ocean on unemployed university graduates, there's little to no hope for someone who is without even a university degree. Employers understand that Nigeria is full out outrageous personalities and people and have a severe problem with indiscipline as a society. A standard university education is thus used to determine who is mentality capable of even having a job to begin with. Someone who can finish school shows dedication, discipline, intelligence, and a level head that allows employers to be more comfortable giving them a stake in the future of a company or project.

More troubling though is the fact that even with a degree, many Nigerians have degrees in fields which there is little to no demand in the Nation. As a developing country, many sectors don't exist as they do in the west, or aren't as abundant, but our universities give out degrees in those fields as if they do. As research and development are sadly not a business or government priority in Nigeria, a country more accustomed to waiting for the rest of the world to innovate and afterwards borrowing, demand for science is low in Nigeria. This most important thing to take away from Nigeria's developing status is we are the entrepreneurial generation. The jobs that will hire these people are supposed to be created by us. We are ordained by circumstance to be the employers, not the employees. Therefore the skills you learn at a university are supposed to go toward creating opportunities, not looking for them. That's the burden we bare and we have to understand it before proceeding.

Moreover, many of our schools are too focused on theory and memorization, as opposed to giving people tangible skills they can do something with. A polytech student is taking a smarter route than a university student because poly-techs focus on creating the skills needed to feed yourself and prosper, while universities are focused on making you a more well rounded thinker..which is useful because your subsequent unemployment will give you plenty of time to think.

If you only went to Secondary, you are of no use to the business world outside of manual labor, if you went to university you have to create your own avenue, and if you went to poly-tech it's the same only you're more likely to be better equip to do so.


Bad Reputation
Lets be honest with ourselves. The majority of Nigerians are hired by their kinsmen. These are typically big men or big men on the raise. When they go back to the rural areas looking for family members to bring to the city with them, parents do something we're very familiar with; suggest their most reasonable child. The child who grows up listening to his parents, running errands, works hard, being trustworthy, and dependable will get suggested first. More importantly, your kinsmen will know your reputation growing up. They will pick the most honest children and young adults first, and if that child fails they'll simply look for another family.

they will only give those with a bad reputation a chance if those with a bad reputation are immediate relatives (same mother and father) or their own children, and if they're suffering abuse from your inability to work they will send you back home. If you have a bad reputation among your kinsmen, your chances are slim. Even within my family, my father is well to do.
Growing up he was honest, and hardworking. When his rich uncle had to choose a child to send to the US to go to school, he chose to sponsor my dad because of his good reputation. My dad got to the US, succeeded and was able to help his brothers establish their own shops and places of work. He himself does as his uncle before by investing money and his hardworking and reliable brothers, who are few.


We get the mentality that dishonesty gets you further quicker in Nigeria. That's simply not true. Your name is your wealth. If your name is worth nothing, you will die poor. Many of the people stuck in the village are stuck their because nobody wants to associate with them. They're either dishonest, lazy, or unreliable and have been that way since they were a child.


Cultural Setbacks

If you think about the details of our culture, it makes hiring a person very difficult and many people are made unemployable for no reason, in particular women.

While in school you're not expected to work, though if you do find yourself working, it's for family or a sponsor, and it's typically for free or in exchange of paid school fees.
Post-Secondary: While in the university you're not expected to work or allowed to, and if you're working odds are you're not a student and are thus not qualified/trusted to do much
Post-University: If you're a woman you're expected to marry someone. After marriage, many people have setbacks about hiring 'someone's wife'. It's also typical for husbands to not be ok with someone hiring their wife as she is expected to be at home taking care of children or cooking etc. Women are expected to marry immediately after school and aren't given time to establish their own professional careers, and men shy away from women that are too independent/established unless they themselves are wealthier than the woman. This is very ironic because traditionally nigerian men have sought hard working women, now education and capitalism has create a class system that doesn't allow many to be comfortable with women dominating family finances. This is also sad because many women aren't as concerned with employment as men, with marriage and finding a man who can support them as a bigger priority than utilizing their education. A lot of the women in our universities are just taking up space in this regard.



Another issue that hold us back culturally is we don't have a culture or widespread understanding of how to find work. It's changing with technology and the several sites and periodicals that publish available positions, but many are being left behind in the technological leap the country is taking and are thus left in the dark. May of us will finish school and stay in the village complaining that there's no work, or go to the city and look for substandard work when that's not the only thing available. A great many simply wait for relatives to employ us. In America people have a culture of finding work which makes unemployment controllable. This isn't everyone, but many simply don't consider going door to door and seeing what jobs are needed. This renders them unemployable.

On point.especially no 3.culture has murdered dreamz of so many married women.I've seen non practicin medical doctors,engineers etc waste away just like dat.I no a lady practicin as a civil engineer and doin pretty well b4 marriage. She ended up stayin at home bc she is wit small children.its just pathetic.