Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun on Tuesday said Ph.d and master’s degree holders were among 49,000 applicants who had applied for the slated 3,000 jobs of environmental marshals in the state.

He said this at Obas complex, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta during the award ceremony for teachers and pupils who distinguished themselves in the 2013 President’s Teacher and Schools Excellence Award, held in Abuja.

He said, “No fewer than 49,000 applications have so far been received by the state government. Of the applicants, there were some Ph.D holders and over 600 Master’s degree holders.”

In June this year, Amosun had announced plan by his administration to recruit 3,000 environmental marshals to ensure healthy environment.

According to him, due to overwhelming response to the job offer, it becomes a Herculean task to prune down the number.

Amosun who lamented the high rate of unemployment in the country, said he had ordered the suspension of the recruitment exercise.

He called on the necessary authorities to develop a workable plan towards tackling the acute problem of unemployment.

He said, “If we have about 600 of those with Master’s qualification and above running around for a job that they would be paid N20,000, then you know that there is a problem.”

Amosun also said no fewer than 14,000 applicants have recently applied for employment in the state’s civil service.

He said, “‎The other time when I met with civil servants, I did mention that if any of them has children that are looking for work and have put in more than 10 years, that they should please apply. I can conveniently tell you‎ that today more than 14,000 have applied.

“When I was making that statement, in my mind I thought I will probably employ about 500 people or so. But lo and behold, we have over 14,000 that have applied. What does that tell us? The problem has been there since.”
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Too bad.....

Damn. Cry beloved country. Weep.

Na today? It is NO news..... I blame it on past and present FG, SG, godfathers, godmothers and finally our great polithievecians who by all means replaced any vacant positions with their daughters, sons n relatives, their son n daughter even go as far as marrying eachother(No wonder their marriages doesnt last forever coz Mrs bride wil b claiming " i came frm a rich background, i cant bow for u" vice-versa)...The richs cont to get richer while d poors cont to get poorer as well...
I weep mercilessly for this JERUSALEM..!
What are the way forward Nigerians?

space booked

There's fire on the mountain. Make God just end the world self.

Nigeria on the brink

Lord have mercy

signs of frustration

I'm speechless,I have seen someone with OND getting a job in ministry of finance while a lot of others with 2.1 and MSc in accounting who all applied for same position where snubbed,just bc the OND guy is in-law to a chapter chairman of a political party I wouldn't mention here,Gov Amosun,your colleague politicians are the reason for all these mess we are seeing in this country!

The country is chronically ill...i used to think the connection thing was a joke when i tasted the bitter pill. The thing hurts more because the so called connected person is usually so dumb but na sm1s nephew or niece. Ego better

God will surely intervene for us the no- connection, no God-father citizens of dis c3. He will never leave d ophan farherless ie his word.

So what is d way forward?

I can only say, 'it is well.'

Well, Msc don almost turn to pure water these days but for the Phd holder among them (assuming this is true) Na wa for them o, Private Universities abound that would hire them nah, or at least any organisation that has to do with the academics. except they know they can't defend their Phd which in that case they would not be undervaluing them selves...all in all, this is a sad reality in Nigeria...God won't help us until we help ourselves...it all starts in 2015

What was he expecting? ? Like he didn't know the rate of unemployment in Nigeria before now?? Make he go siddon...

phd even witout experience is most considered for assist lecturer, lecturer 1, n ova qualified for graduate lecturer in uni, poly n monotechs
nawa ooooooo

About the PhD holders, the governor is a bloody liar. Except the PhD holders got their cert from private unis.