Racoon:
Sudden NIMC woke up from it protracted inactivity.Give Nigerians their cards having registered many years ago mbok!

Blindersoff:
What about us who are resident outside Nigeria and hold dual citizenship?

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) said three months jail term awaits anybody who refuses to get National Identity Number (NIN).

Kano state coordinator Muhammad Sanusi Auwalu disclosed this while delivering a lecture at Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education, Kano. He said the Agency will start taking action on anybody who refused to get registered.

He explained that part of the action to be taken against anybody who refused to get registered include, three months imprisonment or a fine of N100,000.

“The agency will impose three-month imprisonment or N100,000 fine on whoever arrested without been registered”.

He said the main focus of the commission is to ensure that every Nigerian register...

In accordance with the provisions of section 27(1)(1) of the Commission Act, the use of National Identity Number NIN should be mandatory.

“In exercising its power of enforcement and compliance, the commission has the power to demand for evidence of compliance from persons, to caution a non-compliant person, sanction a non-compliant person “...

“It also has the power to institute criminal proceedings against a non-compliant person through the office of the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation”.

mightyhaze:
oya declare

greenprince:

Imagine.
Just imagine

Originalsly:


Isn't this in support of what he is saying? The person graduated in Nigeria...but did not sit down on the degree and expect to find El Dorado. He/She used it to move to a higher level and an environment where it can lead to Ei Dorado. Wenger got his.... but found another path to El Dorado which also supports the statement.

blowjohn:



Both of u r right though. Buhari is for the most part right too.
The difference between us and the west is that while we r clamouring to be millionaires, the west constantly want an environment that will be conducive for their upcoming generation.
That brings us to the problem of the family, education and the government.
These days parents hardly buy their kids books and novels outside the normal school books. They don't even have libraries. I read things fall apart in primary school and books about earthquakes and demons and life, still in primary school. That period really shaped my thinking abilities. These days parents think about building houses in the village and in the city. It's so disgusting.
If the government has over the decades built factories, research centers, equipped schools and provided enabling environment for businesses to thrive, many people who finish school will have jobs.

So how does a blockhead finish from University and wants to make it when he or she cannot even use his brain becos he or she just went thru school as a routine? Especially as regards so many girls around?

Look at our hospitals. Even for nurses and doctors to get jobs is an uphill task. Now we can ask the government.... Is it rocket science to build hospitals and factories?
We can also ask rich private individuals..... Is it a crime to build same, instead of filling stations and plazas and supermarkets? ask our banks why they lay of staffs every year yet their CEOs get richer.

U see why it's a mentality thing?

dalass:

What do you expect from someone who did not get any form of higher education?
But he's training his own in the university o...bunch of nitwits!
Quite annoying coming from a whole President who should encourage especially his own people to read and stop the violence in his region

MetaPhysical:


Yeah, you are right....if you read deep into baqina's position you will get the point.

Baqina is not disputing that education is not an el dorado.....but that even those who have stepped up their game and self-improved and become self-employed have realized clientele and consumer traffic is dry. Discretionary spending is low. So to buoy the economy and make more people spend, which will reward those on the side of Buhari's advise.....the government and even private sector should fund commerce.

Originalsly:


What exactly is not true about that statement? Too many of us cannot separate the message from the messenger. That statement holds true in any country period..... USA.....Canada... China...if you disagree name one country where having a degree will guarantee you an El Dorado. The only country where that was a given was Libya under Gadaffi...if you had a degree you were paid the appropriate salary ...employed or not.
Many degree holders sit and expect to be employed by the FG. You have the degree... use the knowledge/skill you acquire to pave your way to El Dorado.... you have the potential.... use it... that's all he is saying.

MetaPhysical:


You spoke from an uneducated perspective.

What is education?
A tool that empowers an individual to improve himself/herself - Prof Sophie Oluwole.

Many of us get education but beyond that fail to achieve the goal for self-improvement.

What is self-improvement?
Anything that adds value to the dignity and attainment of security and self-worth.
A graduate that goes to get training and becomes a plumber or a electrician will soon become self-sufficient in his ability to have his own apartment, feed himself, date and marry and keep a household. His mate out on the street roaming around with his resume, knocking doors looking for employment will soon land in nairaland looking for financial assistance to feed.

Get the message and dont allow partisan politics to block your reasoning. Buhari is on point!

Gr8amechi:

Maybe you didn't read the article because you just repeated same thing.
He said "university education" meaning carrying degree without content in you will take you no where and that's the bitter truth, you are am engineer who don't understand anything about an engine or a computer scientist by degree but don't understand even basic programming language.
Truth is Nigeria university system needs urgent review and total overhauling of curriculum

dazzlingd:


Guy u go school at all,? What's all these epistle about feeling like nairaland activist....ok, he is suggesting yahoo and rituals, so go fvk yourself and die

StevenOba:

Wow dude I know you have a thing for BUBU. But honestly you sound way too brilliant to be going off point bro. He said " a degree won't necessarily usher you into an El Dorado" . He is not saying don't get a degree, he is not saying degree won't get you out of poverty. What he is saying is just getting that degree alone won't get you that dream job, you have to back it up with soft skills that will make you employable period.

BluntBoy:


You are the one who is wrong. Read the whole paragraph containing that statement.

Our idea of a university degree in Nigeria is warped hence the abundance of unemployable graduates.

The president is very right on this one. I didn't expect anyone to even see faults in the statement.

StevenOba:

Baba you are the one taking it totally out of context. A degree doesn't translate to juicy job with fat check and all the trappings. How you apply yourself, how you update yourself with skills to meet the contemporary labour market will. You can have a first class in any subject but then you don't know how to use a computer who will employ you. So If you are dumb enough to take what the president said out of context and then drop out of school you are obviously not suppose to be in school in the first place.

phantom:

Are you really serious? Or just disagreeing because it's Buhari? That statement is a fact. Especially in a country where the youth have their eyes on something bigger.
What is an "eldorado"? The president is merely stating that these days, your university degree is not enough. Thinking outside the box is how countries like China are where they are today.

famouscargo4u:


Not even in the US or UK are you guaranteed wealth for being a graduate, that exactly is the point. You might get jobs no doubt but it is not a leeway into success.

famouscargo4u:

I still maintain that the said the truth. Education gives you leverage but it does nit usher you into eldorado. So, because you are a graduate you should fold your arns and expect to be a millionaire?

famouscargo4u:


He said the pure truth. You need to hone your skills, acquire more trainings to stand out among many people. Have you ever wondered how companies keep advertising vacancies almost every week YET many people can't still get job.

sarrki:
True talk

AutoReportNG:


Please don't twist my word, I never said it is not possible to modify or edit your post. I said it is possible to edit a post but you can't altar (edit, modify) the hyperlink and what's an hyperlink? An hyperlink is the web address, the link. When you check the OP's link, it is the same with the title.

Hope we are good now?

themonk:

"He must have" is a strong word that shows you have a high level of certainty in place. All I am saying is that we should not discard things without proper evidence. Respectable nairalanders like AutoreportNG above have come to say they saw the post when he made it. Let us go by evidence and not what we want to believe.