berem: here comes another dunce! who told you am jobless? I can help you upgrade your miserable life if you want. If you don't have answer to my question, just keep shut!

Next dunce please!

Don't go crying to the Mods when I start with you.

nwabobo:

Widespread unemployment did not start with this administration. Unemployment has actually dropped under the current administration going by data from World bank, UN and NBS. YOUWIN alone is just a program out of many designed to tackle unemployment and cannot absorb the large number of unemployed Nigerians. Under this government, there has been steady increase in FDI and a lot of companies (both local and multinational) are either setting up or expanding capacity as the government has been keeping to its promise of improving infrastructure.

Nestle just recently opened their 54 billion naira sute in Agbara, Dangote has just secured a $4.2 billion facility to build a refinery, Transcorp has gone into agroprocessing big time with their fruit juice concentrate production facility in Benue state, they are also about to start the production of tomatoe paste. NASCON, a company in which Dangote owns majority shares is also starting the production of tomato paste. Also, with the current privatisation of the offsprings from PHCN and subsequent take over by the foreign investors, we would see a boom in employment akin to the days of the telecom sector. These activities are what in the long run will reduce the rate of unemployment.

Also, they are a lot if skills acquisition centres spread across the country where you can acquire skills at little or no cost but most people are either ignorant of them or as Nigerians feel too big to do 'dirty jobs'. My friend just finished learning soap making with NDE and I've given him the little support I can. My cousin who was unemployed for a long time had to go back to the village to set up a piggery after acquiring the necessary skills and he's doing fine now planning to buy a pick up van for distribution. Years ago, one of my other cousins had to go back to the village from Pirt harcourt to learn manual block moulding and has never regretted it since then. He just completed a modest '3 rooms and parlour'.

People are taking to farming making money while the lazy ones keep waiting for government to spoon feed them.

Nobody in my paternal extended family works for the government or any company even though most of us under 40 are graduates. We chose to be employees and not employers.

Now am no longer asking a nonsense question. How could some nairalanders be so silly? why must people resort to insults if they can't answer simply question. Am not against the Youwin project even though i haven't seen or heard anyone who has benefited from it. With the righ rate of unemployment, how is the government going to cope with the project? simple question which deserves a simple answer. Anyway thanks for your response. I appreciate.

nwabobo:

Don't go crying to the Mods when I start with you.

You are not a dunce after all! Ndo o? No vex.

berem: Now am no longer asking a nonsense question. How could some nairalanders be so silly? why must people resort to insults if they can't answer simply question. Am not against the Youwin project even though i haven't seen or heard anyone who has benefited from it. With the righ rate of unemployment, how is the government going to cope with the project? simple question which deserves a simple answer. Anyway thanks for your response. I appreciate.

Sorry mate, YOUWIN is for high fliers who have got brains and are innovative and such are rare in your AJ city so, I'll excuse you. The plan is, the ones with 'brains' win the contest and are then empowered to set up business and employ others. So no worries, when they start recruiting 'sales girls' and factory workers, you'll then know one or two people who 'benefited' from YOUWIN.

I was surprised to open the list this morning and among the first set of names I saw was Chichi Wallace Afiah, my good friend's wife.

nwabobo:

Sorry mate, YOUWIN is for high fliers who have got brains and are innovative and such are rare in your AJ city so, I'll excuse you. The plan is, the ones with 'brains' win the contest and are then empowered to set up business and employ others. So no worries, when they start recruiting 'sales girls' and factory workers, you'll then know one or two people who 'benefited' from YOUWIN.

I was surprised to open the list this morning and among the first set of names I saw was Chichi Wallace Afiah, my good friend's wife.

Lol@ Aj city! sorry dude ,i don't live in Ajegunle. ama confirmed Festac chic where we gat the best brains. I never knew government employs based on merit. I thought it was based on federal character? Jeez! you better ask your friend's wife what magic she used.

berem: Lol@ Aj city! sorry dude ,i don't live in Ajegunle. ama confirmed Festac chic where we gat the best brains. I never knew government employs based on merit. I thought it was based on federal character? Jeez! you better ask your friend's wife what magic she used.

It was done on Merit but with equal spread among the regions(Federal character). The difference is that this time, the Federal character was based on state of residence and not state of origin. My friend's wife is Igbo married to Ibibio but living in Abuja so he won as a contestant from the North central region.

This is a nice one here. Congratulations to the winners. It's good to be smart and have good business initiative, making it in life is not all about having a white collar job.
Bravo

nwabobo:

It was done on Merit but with equal spread among the regions(Federal character). The difference is that this time, the Federal character was based on state of residence and not state of origin. My friend's wife is Igbo married to Ibibio but living in Abuja so he won as a contestant from the North central region.

Does it mean those who won can also be employers of Labour too as you rightly stated?

berem: Does it mean those who won can also be employers of Labour too as you rightly stated?

Thats the whole essence of the programme. Empower a few to empower others.

Check their website https://www.youwin.org.ng/