Peter Dada, Akure

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has called on the universities in Nigeria to be more proactive in ensuring that their graduates are employable.

He said many Nigerian graduates were being described as unemployable by some employers of labour, saying this was worrisome to his regime.

Buhari stated this at the 31st Convocation of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, on Saturday.

According to him, the present regime considered education as the cornerstone of national development with universities as the pinnacle of education, “being the engine of knowledge generation and dissemination.”

He said, “In today’s globalised knowledge economy in which the wealth, strategic importance and ranking of any country in the comity of nations is determined largely by its knowledge economy index, my expectation is that our universities will use the instrumentality of their tripartite mandates of teaching, research and community engagement to launch Nigeria into an enviable position among nations of the world.

“In this regard, government expects Nigerian universities to produce graduates imbued with the requisite knowledge, competencies, attitudes, and skills to be active role players in our quest for socio-economic and technological development.

“I expect universities to pay serious attention to the less than complimentary assessment of the graduates of our universities by employers of labour. Definitely, we can not be comfortable when products of our citadels of learning are being described as ‘unemployable’, exhibiting lack of job-readiness and so on.”

Major General Buhari (retd.) noted that issues of graduate employability and skills are pertinent issues gaining tractions nationally and internationally and are prominent on the front burners of discourse on higher education and the future of work.

In his remarks, the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof Joseph Fuwape, urged the graduating students to remain focused and diligent in order to occupy the prime positions of leadership in the country.


https://punchng.com/nigeria-graduates-unemployable-status-worrisome-buhari/

See who is talking , people like you set the precedence for poor training across the country because people stopped taking quality training necessary when the saw the Quota system favouring poor quality minds like you Buhari ..Buhari you are not qualified to even be a security man in a proper establishment but today you are leading a county of over 200 million people

he actually doesn't know what he is talking about


Nigeria produces the best graduates in Africa..
with all our first class
engineers,, pharmacist..doctors


those unemployed didnt have first class..and they did stupid courses like physics and chemistry and others




I cant study engineering,,,and be unemployed

even pharmacy and medicine

It's unfortunate that a President who couldn't present any form of University certificate, whose articulations are far below a brilliant primary school kid, is busy berating graduates, instead of building institutions that will ensure quality education.

This man should bear this at the back of his mind, that... He's elected to proffer solutions to various Nigerian challenges, and not rhetoring them.

With all due respect sir, the Question should be, what are we doing as a country to rewrite our story. I wonder why our politicians keep sounding like they lack the power to change this country when we ha e everything we need to do so

Ordinarily, you're not employable sir

Wazobiamax22:
The words coming out from this our president self will leave a sane mind speechless

Whose responsibility is it to make them employable

You carry 1000+ put for one classroom and you want an effective result

na you dont employ them because they are black....!!

darkwan:


na you dont employ them because they are black....!!

Bros, I beg to differ

Follow many thread on Nairaland and see how many Nigerians are employed in key positions abroad.

Unfortunately many of them schooled abroad

Here our President is not even practicing what he preached

Employing only northerners .

Is he preaching one Nigeria?

Why is he employing zombies into the Nigerian army?

What are you doing about it sir?

This is the same man recruiting unqualified people into the Nigerian Army

Wazobiamax22:

Bros, I beg to differ

Follow many thread on Nairaland and see how many Nigerians are employed in key positions abroad.

Unfortunately many of them schooled abroad

Here our President is not even practicing what he preached

Employing only northerners .

Is he preaching one Nigeria?

wait wait....let me understand....they are takin your intelligence away and you find nothing wrong with it....
whats the difference from now and back then when many where sold off into slavery....??

dont you gerrit....!!??
the game is to make you feel you cant do it without them....!!

Wazobiamax22:

Bros, I beg to differ

Follow many thread on Nairaland and see how many Nigerians are employed in key positions abroad.

Unfortunately many of them schooled abroad

Here our President is not even practicing what he preached

Employing only northerners .

Is he preaching one Nigeria?

don't mind them

what you people need is not more graduates....
what you need in the moment is many psychiatrists....

you have to unlock your minds to trust each other again....

imagine,,,this is a slap ooo
a dullard,that can't even speak well or spell his name is berating Nigerian youths..
this statement from this General is a product of timidity and hallucination...
he is not fit to even b a gateman,,or a house help

Dikegodspower:
imagine,,,this is a slap ooo
a dullard,that can't even speak well or spell his name is berating Nigerian youths..
this statement from this General is a product of timidity and hallucination...
he is not fit to even b a gateman,,or a house help

i can easily guess,you are igbo....

look how they ran away again....
awon olomo igbo....

people that fell in love with their brainwash....

Dss should lock up punch newspaper worldwide.

U are sick sir

If I have a company will I employ Buhari to manage it for me, Amadioha forbid.

Siberia01:



he actually doesn't know what he is talking about


Nigeria produces the best graduates in Africa..
with all our first class
engineers,, pharmacist..doctors


those unemployed didnt have first class..and they did stupid courses like physics and chemistry and others




I cant study engineering,,,and be unemployed

even pharmacy and medicine

U know nothing son. U just showed how empty u are upstairs

Trouble they sleep yanga go wake am, if we began to insult him now his zone Bees will creep out, incompetence personified

Buhari should do something about it and stop complaining. Imagine a country where the economic growth is slower than the population growth coupled with bad government economic policies requires serious government intervention.

A good reason to employ zombies, illiterates and dead people.

Another reason why we are being governed at the highest Level by questionable characters who are bereft of any idea on how to tackle issues, hence complicating issues in an already complicated country.

Only in Nigeria where a prof would deputise for a questionable sch cert holder. Min of education would be headed by a gambari who knows nothing about education.

Godairpus!

Ebullience:
Peter Dada, Akure

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has called on the universities in Nigeria to be more proactive in ensuring that their graduates are employable.

He said many Nigerian graduates were being described as unemployable by some employers of labour, saying this was worrisome to his regime.

Buhari stated this at the 31st Convocation of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, on Saturday.

According to him, the present regime considered education as the cornerstone of national development with universities as the pinnacle of education, “being the engine of knowledge generation and dissemination.”

He said, “In today’s globalised knowledge economy in which the wealth, strategic importance and ranking of any country in the comity of nations is determined largely by its knowledge economy index, my expectation is that our universities will use the instrumentality of their tripartite mandates of teaching, research and community engagement to launch Nigeria into an enviable position among nations of the world.

“In this regard, government expects Nigerian universities to produce graduates imbued with the requisite knowledge, competencies, attitudes, and skills to be active role players in our quest for socio-economic and technological development.

“I expect universities to pay serious attention to the less than complimentary assessment of the graduates of our universities by employers of labour. Definitely, we can not be comfortable when products of our citadels of learning are being described as ‘unemployable’, exhibiting lack of job-readiness and so on.”

Major General Buhari (retd.) noted that issues of graduate employability and skills are pertinent issues gaining tractions nationally and internationally and are prominent on the front burners of discourse on higher education and the future of work.

In his remarks, the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof Joseph Fuwape, urged the graduating students to remain focused and diligent in order to occupy the prime positions of leadership in the country.


https://punchng.com/nigeria-graduates-unemployable-status-worrisome-buhari/

mortuary janitor is talking..
oponu old man.

While incompetent core northerners are sharply employable in choice FG establishments(DSS, DPR, CBN, FIRS, EFCC etc), MDAs because of your bigotry and nepotism.

fykes:

U know nothing son. U just showed how empty u are upstairs

. your unemployed that's why

sammyj:
Buhari should do something about it and stop complaining. Imagine a country where the economic growth is slower than the population growth coupled with bad government economic policies requires serious government intervention.

do what about what....??
soo,only goverment should employ all this graduates....??

Did you even read in between my comment. It seems we have a lot of zombies in Nairaland.

darkwan:


do what about what....??
soo,only goverment should employ all this graduates....??

All they know it's just to talk without action.