Over 7,000,000 Yoruba Youth Are Jobless.Yoruba eat one and half meat a day

If you go to Oyo state or any of the states, you find them all standing in corners.

What is the fraction of the Yoruba population that is youths? A 30% overall un (under) employment for Nigeria seems reasonable. Likely unemployment for youths is higher, say 40%. So if there are 17-18 million Yoruba youths in this country, then your figure sounds plausible.

over 80% yoruba youth are jobless, which is higher than the nation average of 30%.

While the North has least jobless rate.

Becomrich said:

Over 7,000,000 Yoruba Youth Are Jobless. Yoruba eat one and half meat a day

If you go to Oyo state or any of the states, you find them all standing in corners.

Sounds like a silly question, but, have they considered farming?

Not plausible really, I doubt there are up to 17-18 million yoruba youths. Close to 10 million-becomrich would be claiming approximately 70% unemployment. Where are the statistics apart from his unsubstantiated assertion?

over 80% yoruba youth are jobless, which is higher than the nation average of 30%.

While the North has least jobless rate.

Maybe you are counting cattle rearing as a form of employment

One and a half meat!

Oga o! becomerich, you don kolo finissssssssssss!!!!

SEFAGO said:

Where are the statistics apart from his unsubstantiated assertion?

Statistics to back their assertion? That will be the day.

SEFAGO said:

Maybe you are counting cattle rearing as a form of employment

It is.

I made a post on employment here: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-602652.64.html



I don't think the Yoruba are doing badly, as far as employment goes. The only below-average state is Ekiti, the laggards of Yorubaland . The rest seem to be doing solidly. Ogun doing spectacularly well, if those #s are taken at face value (I'd take with a lot of salt, though   ).

With that said, there is certainly room for improvement.

eku_bear , the statistics jonathan an ijaw man created. that is fake statistics.

wakima:

eku_bear , the statistics jonathan an ijaw man created. that is fake statistics.

Good point. He wants to make Yorubaland look better than it is as an excuse to starve it of resources

In that case . . . 90% of Yoruba youth are jobless!

Most yoruba families eat less than 2 square meal a day.
Which is a majority problem we have. Not that the food is not there. But they cant afford it. Which has given raise to the highest crime rate in Nigeria.

The north has the least crime rate in Nigeria because most of the oil revenue goes to the north.

Starvation has force million of Yoruba people to leave Nigeria. the Yorubas has the highest number of immigrate among Nigeria. 

 With 7 in every nigerian abroad been a Yoruba person.

It is so that that many yorubas have to go to Benin republic to buy food and use cloth.

Becomrich said:

Most yoruba families eat less than 2 square meal a day.

My friend provide EVIDENCE to back your claims or stop disturbing our peace. You're one of those Nigerians who think that everyone apart from themselves is starving.

EVIDENCE Evidence is the growth of redeemed christain church of God abroad. look you can go on the redeemed website, they have over 300 churches in the USA along and over 500 in Europe at the moment. And if you put this together over 600 of the pastors are yorubas. And over 70% of that congregation are yorubas.

Even if you go to other nigerian churches abroad. You find they all have the same figure. even go to places like Ghana or Ivory coast. The number of yorubas living there out number the rest of Nigeria all put together.


Poverty have become the other of the day in Yorubaland.

I have even heard rumors of Yoruba begging in the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia.

Na wa o. Please, someone save my people 

We should find some generous souls to place adverts on TV.

"For only one dollar a day, you can save this hungry Yorubaman from starvation"

[b]EVIDENCE Evidence is the growth of redeemed christain church of God abroad. [/b]look you can go on the redeemed website, they have over 300 churches in the USA along and over 500 in Europe at the moment. And if you put this together over 600 of the pastors are yorubas. And over 70% of that congregation are yorubas.

Love this guy, he loves pulling numbers out of nowhere.

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1 and a half pieces of meat is small sha.

^ So how many did you eat when you were young

schools in yorubaland.

Joke apart, somethings culd be right on NL, Yoruba people ar stil living in their past glories, while the north is fast developing! In Bauchi State, from Tilde-fulani to Toro, through Bauchi town to Darazo, Misau, even Tafawa-Balewa and Bogoro, you will see state of the art public schools(yes! I mean fo the common citizens), some with V-Sat and computers(generally, redundant due to lack of personel!)

eku_bear:

I made a post on employment here: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-602652.64.html



I don't think the Yoruba are doing badly, as far as employment goes. The only below-average state is Ekiti, the laggards of Yorubaland . The rest seem to be doing solidly. Ogun doing spectacularly well, if those #s are taken at face value (I'd take with a lot of salt, though   ).

With that said, there is certainly room for improvement.

wow bayelsa with all the money pumped into it and low population have the highest unemployment rate, chineke nyelu mmadu aka(God help us)

SEFAGO:

^ So how many did you eat when you were young 

Well, she grew up poor, and, unlike you and other middle class Nigerians, she never had the privilege of eating the kind of meat Becomrichn is talking about. The only meat she was exposed to were the ones you cant swallow. She had to kneel down to have access to them. And, even at that, she was only allowed to munch on them, and occasionally, very rarely, she gets some, between 4-5 inches long,  she could gag on, producing copious saliva in the process.

Yeah, she led a rough childhood. Poor Tpiah!

PS: When Tpiah said 1.5 inches is too small, trust her, she knows what she is talking about.

cogitoErgo:

Joke apart, somethings culd be right on NL, Yoruba people ar stil living in their past glories, while the north is fast developing! In Bauchi State, from Tilde-fulani to Toro, through Bauchi town to Darazo, Misau, even Tafawa-Balewa and Bogoro, you will see state of the art public schools(yes! I mean fo the common citizens), some with V-Sat and computers(generally, redundant due to lack of personel!)

Stop feeding us lies.

Which Part of Bauchi State? Is it GDSS Soro or GSSS Darazo or GSSS Bogoro or is it Warji, Giade, Jamaare, Alkaleri Itas Gadau, Dass or Ningi?

WHich state of art Public schools?

For example in Darazo Local Government How many secondary school do we have? GSS Darazo, GDSS Sade, Gabarin and Lanzai. How many of them have Senior secondary classes

Even in Darazo town there is only one private school "Yara mayan Gobe"

Well, she grew up poor, and, unlike you and other middle class Nigerians, she never had the privilege of eating the kind of meat Becomrichn is talking about. The only meat she was exposed to were the ones you cant swallow. She had to kneel down to have access to them. And, even at that, she was only allowed to munch on them, and occasionally, very rarely, she gets some, between 4-5 inches long, she could gag on, producing copious saliva in the process.

Yeah, she led a rough childhood. Poor Tpiah!

PS: When Tpiah said 1.5 inches is too small, trust her, she knows what she is talking about.

Ha!
Iru oro buruku wo niyi!

Ni ba na son walakanci, maganar gasikiya dai!

No wonder they have southern almajiris

Emerging Trend Of Social Almajiri In Yorubaland
By Hakeem Jamiu
There is a social malaise which is gradually creeping into the lexicon of Yorubaland and this is the ugly spectre of hungry children begging for food and alms at social events. Older women are equally not left out in this ugly but strange practice in Yorubaland. It is strange in Yorubaland because the concept of almajiri which simply means street urchin is common in the Northern part of the country. Yorubas use to refer derisively to anybody soliciting for arms in Yorubaland in the olden days as almajiri. The almajiri of the North are usually children between the age bracket of 7 and 20 in most cases. Almajiris are so desperate for food that any unsuspecting visitor to the Northern part of the country who goes to a restaurant to eat but mistakenly left his food to wash his hands is likely to lose such to waiting almajiris before he comes back for the food.

I first noticed this ugly trend at a ceremony I attended a few months ago at Ayetoro Ekiti. Elderly and middle aged able bodied women from Kwara, Osun and Oyo states invaded the burial ceremony uninvited and were embarrassing guests who refused to give them money. Also noticeable were children with their begging bowls who thronged the venue of the ceremony soliciting for left over food and alms. The children were a pitiable sight. Poverty was clearly written on their faces. I have attended many social functions after that and the same trend was noticeable. But I became worried a few days ago, when I attended the burial ceremony of a friend's father in Ilesha , Osun State . They came in various groups and employ different methods in soliciting for alms. There were the elderly women who were busy harassing guests in the name of praise singing and would not leave until you part with money, there were the men with their public address system which they use in praise singing but which is disturbance and yet, there were Yoruba children in the mould of almajiris with their begging bowls scrambling for left-over and at the same time soliciting for alms.

Fellow guests on my table at the event who were also journalists expressed their concern in unison about the growing trend of almajiri of various categories in Yorubaland. They all agreed that it has become a social problem. We started discussing and realised that the culture of begging in the mould of almajiris is alien to Yoruba culture. In those days before the advent of the British, the Yorubas are a proud people known for their hard work and industry. They practiced hoe agriculture and were well known as traders and for their crafts. Yoruba artists have produced masterpieces of woodcarving and bronze casting, some of which date from as early as the 13th century. Many of Nigeria 's best-known artists and writers are Yoruba. Other occupation of the Yorubas at that time were drumming and masquerading which would now be called showbiz. They engage in all the foregoing occupation but a Yoruba man or woman (able bodied) would not beg for alms as it is considered shameful and something akin to a curse. The Yorubas cherish their oriki (folklore) which is a poetic version of eulogizing the exploits of their progenitors which is an incentive for them to excel and even surpass their progenitors. The Yorubas have harsh words for lazy people. Such people are objects of ridicule and butt of jokes in the society. With this background, it is understandable why we became worried with the array of beggars at the Ilesha ceremony.

After leaving the party, I reflected on the scenario of the almajiris in Ilesha and I was able to draw a relationship between Political almajiris and social almajiris. I discovered that social almajiri had its root in the advent of the politics of do -or-die introduced into the political lexicon of Yorubaland by apostles of mainstream politics especially ex-President Obasanjo. The grand Patron of political almajiris who recently passed away was Chief Lamidi Adedibu. Many have argued that his dath has led to the profilration of almajiris in Yorubaland. This is because those he hitherto dole handouts to must look for other means of survival since he is no more. These political almajiris are ready to exchange their mothers for few coins. A new political class of men without integrity and anything goes was created and they became political almajiris who survive on crumbs from their masters. They would rig, kill, maim and do all sort of things to acquire political power. With the ascension of these men in power, good governance became a thing of the past. Our collective patrimony was squandered by these political almajiris. Nigeria has never been so blessed with petro dollar with oil selling for $156 dollars per barrel but Nigeria has never been so poor with a chunk of the population living below poverty line. So versions of the political almajiris are the social almajiris that now invade ceremonies in Yorubaland. With these children begging for alms, a ready made market for thuggery and other social vices is assured. The activities of the beggars are not limited to parties. At bus stops in our cities, it is a common sight to see women most of who are still in their mid thirties, who would strap a baby at their backs and approach men with stories of despair to solicit for alms. Many of them would end up in bed with such men. This is another brand of alamajiri and these are Yoruba women. A violent version of almajiri but which is gradually being tackled in Lagos is the 'Area Boys' syndrome. These are Yoruba street urchins who are semi- armed robbers.

The underlying factor in this new trend is failure of the Nigerian State on one part and the laziness on the part of these women. Most of them don't want to work, In those days, when everybody's occupation was farming you dare not beg. You must find something to do. But these days, our women and children are too lazy. It is either they steal or beg. In most cases a mother and child become almajiris at social events. So the question now is can a Yoruba man now refer derisively to a Hausa beggar as almajiri when we have many of them now in Yorubaland? The answer is no! This trend must be arrested before it goes out of hand. The almajiris in the North these days engage in novel forms of drug abuse like sniffing of gutter water to get intoxicated, sniffing of adhesives and other drugs so that they are ever ready to unleash terror on the rest of the society whenever they are called upon to do so by the political wing of almajiris. I strongly recommend that guests at public functions must stop encouraging almajiris by giving them money.

But can government which itself owns the political wing of almajiris arrest this trend? Time will tell.

http://odili.net/news/source/2008/jul/9/221.html

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Aare Becomrichn,

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