Did you know that?
1) Nigeria has plans, agendas and policies that ranks amongst the best in the world
2) The RBDA(which is an imitation of the Tennessee river basin development authority of USA that provided jobs to at least 2million americans), even with this same motive of job creation to employ youths, make nigeria self sufficient in fish production,provide water for irrigation to rural farmer and provide electricity

But the last time I was in Ogun-osun river basin in Abeokuta what I saw was different
1)Workers sleeping,
2)Pure water production and packaging
3) Dilapidated offices and building
4)Everything in a state of despair

Boards after boards and committees after committees would squander money on holding meetings and after the money has been shared into various bank accounts, the amount that gets to the Managing director won't be enough for anything and he also, being a part of the system might just do justice to the money and it goes on and on till....nothing tangible is achieved
Until we the youth come out to fight corruption, mismanagement of public funds and stress the need for industrialisation and Agriculture we would keep employing staffs to sleep,ministries won't work and unemployment will increase at a rate we never thought it would.
Until we graduates demand our right to build our nation ourselves- graduate would keep taking 10,000 Naira jobs and think that's the end of the world.

Ehis Abuya

Yinkaolu:

There are working class Nigerians that are passionate about bringing a better lot to the nation in becoming a better place for her graduates to live. U can still be part of this association bearing it in mind that it is no longer association of unemployed graduate but association of Nigerian graduates against unemployment both employed and unemployed alike.
Thanks as we all work hand in hand for a better Nigeria.
It begins with US!

Well, you guys have spoken well but always remember that unemployment is not a disease neither is it a curse. And for those that didn't show up because they don't want to associate themselves with the tag" unemployed"...we are not begging for members...its the same name you guys are shying away from that attracted you in the first place. This isn't hiphop so Trying to "Funkify" the name is not the issue but solving the problem at a glance when the name is heard!
People already know where we stand for anyway!
Its ok because we all have a point.
But the idea that some people didn't attend the meeting because of the name is not in anyway reasonable because almost everyone(80%) present on saturday are all employed

RedBenson:

I hereby vote for the 3rd suggestion too.

I have applied for it at the cooperate affairs commission, the result would be out in 5 working days

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Nigerian Association of unemployed graduates

Association of unemployed graduate of Nigeria

Association of Nigerian graduate against unemployment
(This had the higest vote)

If only the National Directorate of Employment could tell us how they arrived at the conclusion that just 3.3 million Nigerians are unemployed out of a total of 170 million people.
If only the National Directorate of Employment could tell us how the census was conducted,and the people that were counted
Nigerians need answers to how many youth coppers were retained after service

NDE Director-General, Mallam Abubakar Mohammed said the directorate had in October last year introduced the scheme to create jobs as well as “solve the national malaise of mass failure in public examinations’’.

According to him, the scheme is aimed at helping candidates with deficiencies in public examinations, such as West African Examinations Council (WAEC), National Examination Council (NECO) and Joint Admissions Matriculation Board(JAMB), to improve their grades through proper coaching.

Has he forgotten graduates are jobless
Why not help those qualified graduates to get jobs than coaching WAEC and JAMB failures

We want to know if there are NDE Co-ordinator in all 36 states of the federation and what they have been doing to solve unemployment!!!
Tell us, we need to know
Thanks
Ehis Abuya

If only the National Directorate of Employment could tell us how they arrived at the conclusion that just 3.3 million Nigerians are unemployed out of a total of 170 million people.
If only the National Directorate of Employment could tell us how the census was conducted,and the people that were counted
Nigerians need answers to how many youth coppers were retained after service

NDE Director-General, Mallam Abubakar Mohammed said the directorate had in October last year introduced the scheme to create jobs as well as “solve the national malaise of mass failure in public examinations’’.

According to him, the scheme is aimed at helping candidates with deficiencies in public examinations, such as West African Examinations Council (WAEC), National Examination Council (NECO) and Joint Admissions Matriculation Board(JAMB), to improve their grades through proper coaching.

Has he forgotten graduates are jobless
Why not help those qualified graduates to get jobs than coaching WAEC and JAMB failures

We want to know if there are NDE Co-ordinator in all 36 states of the federation and what they have been doing to solve unemployment!!!
Tell us, we need to know
Thanks
Ehis Abuya

Our website is 80% done
Articles and suggestions are still welcomed
Thanks
N.C
(Ehis Abuya)

If rrape victims,gays and lesbians could come out to voice out their minds,my heart bleeds for those that though jobless finds it difficult to identify with a group with the idea of kicking against unemployment

The desire to form an association that is aimed at kicking against unemployment commenced yesterday in Lagos despite discouragement by some Nigerians who probably might also be jobless yet decides to "package" their problems
They are the CEO's we see on facebook yet they still depend on their parents for recharge cards.

"Kendric Tejiro resides in Delta state yet he came down to Lagos,battled with traffic, slept in a church, had very little for dinner and no breakfast the next morning just to attended the first meeting"

Barrister ikeri okey took a flight from Imo state left his chambers,his family and clients graced the occasion and returned that same day to Imo state,

Oyo-ita effiong came all the way from benin to Lagos despite he's tight schedules
Sandra kayero,John odianose came from Ibadan,
Dammy from Abeokuta Ogun state , Oni Michael from Sango otta ogun state. Just to mention a few.
So many young men and women left their wives,kids and families just to make history
Well,all I can say is nothing but every man would reap according to what he sows!!what else or what more do we want from patriotic Nigerians.

The meeting was held at Unilag sport centre as earlier announced.
It commenced about 10am although we didn't allow the media into the meeting due to the fact that it just the first meeting, offices were assigned to willing and ready member
Posts include(all interim)
National coordinator
Three PRO
Two Secretaries
Four Mobilisation officers
Administrative officers(Facebook,twitter handlers,website and blog managers)

We concluded on 3 names to be forwarded to the cooperate affairs commission as the official name of the Association

Amongst the criteria for registration includes trustees selection(2 each from each geopolitical zones) which we did and hope to contact them
A constitution committee was set aside to work on the constitution and report in 3 weeks
A lot of issues were discussed,resolved,added subtracted and we all saw the meeting as a huge step in achieving a socio-economical height in the nearest future. The National coordinator gave a wonderful opening speech which was like a blueprint on which the hinges of the meeting turned.
We were blessed by the presence of wise and fast thinking individuals
Ayodeji babalola was a great contributor, oyo-ita Effiong indeed is an orator
Kendrick Tejiro took everything to another level breaking down plans like he has done the appraisal before,Men were more than women

Oni michael added a whole lot of wisdom and experience to the meeting giving several ideas on how to go about tackling our problems in Nigeria.
Shomoye Damilola gave the closing remark and the long waited item 7 followed.
And I must mention that am not impressed by the Lagosians turn out....
Nigeria is the only country we have
Youths must stand up because we are the leaders of tomorrow
Its time to come out and claim what's rightfully ours
Let's reason together, we have no money and we don't intend soliciting for money at all,our strength and confidence is in our number
Let come out in mass and let our voices merge into one and speak in onenes. The world must hear our cry and know what we fighting is a for the betterment of all Nigeria unemployed and under employed graduate.
MISSION/VISSION(summary)
NB(still working on the constitution)
Boosting Agriculture and industrialisation,
Ban of any goods that can be produced in Nigeria,
Pushing of memorandum to the house of assembly for the payment of unengaged nigerian graduates,
Influencing government policies to improve the job market for graduates,
kicking against sales of jobs,
Kicking against ambiguous and frivolous criteria for job recruitment eg Age, working experience,Tribalism,state of origin,Language,

Thanks to all those present and those who couldn't make it because the are far away and those who where unavoidably absent..
Thank you guys so much
From the National coordinator
Ehis Abuya

If molestation victims,gays and lesbians could come out to voice out their minds,my heart bleeds for those that though jobless finds it difficult to identify with a group with the idea of kicking against unemployment

The desire to form an association that is aimed at kicking against unemployment commenced yesterday in Lagos despite discouragement by some Nigerians who probably might also be jobless yet decides to "package" their problems
They are the CEO's we see on facebook yet they still depend on their parents for recharge cards.

"Kendric Tejiro resides in Delta state yet he came down to Lagos,battled with traffic, slept in a church, had very little for dinner and no breakfast the next morning just to attended the first meeting"

Barrister ikeri okey took a flight from Imo state left his chambers,his family and clients graced the occasion and returned that same day to Imo state,

Oyo-ita effiong came all the way from benin to Lagos despite he's tight schedules
Sandra kayero,John odianose came from Ibadan,
Dammy from Abeokuta Ogun state , Oni Michael from Sango otta ogun state. Just to mention a few.
So many young men and women left their wives,kids and families just to make history
Well,all I can say is nothing but every man would reap according to what he sows!!what else or what more do we want from patriotic Nigerians.

The meeting was held at Unilag sport centre as earlier announced.
It commenced about 10am although we didn't allow the media into the meeting due to the fact that it just the first meeting, offices were assigned to willing and ready member
Posts include(all interim)
National coordinator
Three PRO
Two Secretaries
Four Mobilisation officers
Administrative officers(Facebook,twitter handlers,website and blog managers)

We concluded on 3 names to be forwarded to the cooperate affairs commission as the official name of the Association

Amongst the criteria for registration includes trustees selection(2 each from each geopolitical zones) which we did and hope to contact them
A constitution committee was set aside to work on the constitution and report in 3 weeks
A lot of issues were discussed,resolved,added subtracted and we all saw the meeting as a huge step in achieving a socio-economical height in the nearest future. The National coordinator gave a wonderful opening speech which was like a blueprint on which the hinges of the meeting turned.
We were blessed by the presence of wise and fast thinking individuals
Ayodeji babalola was a great contributor, oyo-ita Effiong indeed is an orator
Kendrick Tejiro took everything to another level breaking down plans like he has done the appraisal before,Men were more than women

Oni michael added a whole lot of wisdom and experience to the meeting giving several ideas on how to go about tackling our problems in Nigeria.
Shomoye Damilola gave the closing remark and the long waited item 7 followed.
And I must mention that am not impressed by the Lagosians turn out....
Nigeria is the only country we have
Youths must stand up because we are the leaders of tomorrow
Its time to come out and claim what's rightfully ours
Let's reason together, we have no money and we don't intend soliciting for money at all,our strength and confidence is in our number
Let come out in mass and let our voices merge into one and speak in onenes. The world must hear our cry and know what we fighting is a for the betterment of all Nigeria unemployed and under employed graduate.
MISSION/VISSION(summary)
NB(still working on the constitution)
Boosting Agriculture and industrialisation,
Ban of any goods that can be produced in Nigeria,
Pushing of memorandum to the house of assembly for the payment of unengaged nigerian graduates,
Influencing government policies to improve the job market for graduates,
kicking against sales of jobs,
Kicking against ambiguous and frivolous criteria for job recruitment eg Age, working experience,Tribalism,state of origin,Language,

Thanks to all those present and those who couldn't make it because the are far away and those who where unavoidably absent..
Thank you guys so much
From the National coordinator
Ehis Abuya

100% Whykay:
Fellow graduates against unemployment in Nigeria, the 'minute' of yesterday's meeting is already on our facebook page and twitter handle. Pls, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter.


Our facebook page is: National Association of Unemployed Graduates-NAUG

The official twitter handle for this association is: @naijagraduates

All unemployed graduate that is/are willing to identify with us should pls follow @naijagraduates on twitter, mention and get a follow back


Thanks,
Yinka for Ehix.

Thanks so much yinka!!
Follow us on twitter @naijagraduates
And facebook click the link below

https://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Association-Of-Unemployed-Graduates-NAUG/1406249762926389

Let's us all use our immaginations and set ourselves free from the shakles of unemployment in Nigeria
Absolute victory awaits us all

Ehis Abuya

If Rape victims,gays and lesbians could come out to voice out their minds,my heart bleeds for those that though jobless finds it difficult to identify with a group with the idea of kicking against unemployment

The desire to form an association that is aimed at kicking against unemployment commenced yesterday in Lagos despite discouragement by some Nigerians who probably might also be jobless yet decides to "package" their problems
They are the CEO's we see on facebook yet they still depend on their parents for recharge cards.

"Ken resides in Delta state yet he came down to Lagos,battled with traffic, slept in a church, had very little for dinner and no breakfast the next morning just to attended the first meeting"

Barrister ikeri okey took a flight from Imo state left his chambers,his family and clients graced the occasion and returned that same day to Imo state,

Oyo-ita effiong came all the way from benin to Lagos despite he's tight schedules
Sanda kayero,John odianose came from Ibadan,olayinka olagunju,
Dammy from Abeokuta Ogun state , Oni Michael from Sango otta ogun state. Just to mention a few.
So many young men and women left their wives,kids and families just to make history
Well,all I can say is nothing but every man would reap according to what he sows!!what else or what more do we want from patriotic Nigerians.

The meeting was held at Unilag sport centre as earlier announced.
It commenced about 10am although we didn't allow the media into the meeting due to the fact that it just the first meeting, offices were assigned to willing and ready member
Posts include(all interim)
National coordinator
Three PRO
Two Secretaries
Four Mobilisation officers
Administrative officers(Facebook,twitter handlers,website and blog managers)

We concluded on 3 names to be forwarded to the cooperate affairs commission as the official name of the Association

Amongst the criteria for registration includes trustees selection(2 each from each geopolitical zones) which we did and hope to contact them
A constitution committee was set aside to work on the constitution and report in 3 weeks
A lot of issues were discussed,resolved,added subtracted and we all saw the meeting as a huge step in achieving a socio-economical height in the nearest future. The National coordinator gave a wonderful opening speech which was like a blueprint on which the hinges of the meeting turned.
We were blessed by the presence of wise and fast thinking individuals
Ayodeji babalola was a great contributor, oyo-ita Effiong indeed is an orator
Ken took everything to another level breaking down plans like he has done the appraisal before,Men were more than women

Oni michael added a whole lot of wisdom and experience to the meeting giving several ideas on how to go about tackling our problems in Nigeria.olagunju olayinka greatly contributed to the motions on ground while
Shomoye Damilola gave the closing remark and the long waited item 7 followed.
And I must mention that am not impressed by the Lagosians turn out....
Nigeria is the only country we have
Youths must stand up because we are the leaders of tomorrow
Its time to come out and claim what's rightfully ours
Let's reason together, we have no money and we don't intend soliciting for money at all,our strength and confidence is in our number
Let come out in mass and let our voices merge into one and speak in onenes. The world must hear our cry and know what we fighting is a for the betterment of all Nigeria unemployed and under employed graduate.
MISSION/VISSION(summary)
NB(still working on the constitution)
Boosting Agriculture and industrialisation,
Ban of any goods that can be produced in Nigeria,
Pushing of memorandum to the house of assembly for the payment of unengaged nigerian graduates,
Influencing government policies to improve the job market for graduates,
kicking against sales of jobs,
Kicking against ambiguous and frivolous criteria for job recruitment eg Age, working experience,Tribalism,state of origin,Language,

Thanks to all those present and those who couldn't make it because the are far away and those who where unavoidably absent..
Thank you guys so much
From the National coordinator
Ehis Abuya

Nigerian graduates must wake up!
Africans must wake up!
Sleeping giants!
Sleeping sons of Jacob!
Awake, Arise....or forever be fallen!!!

Nigerian graduates must wake up!
Africans must wake up!
Sleeping giants!
Sleeping sons of Jacob!
Awake, Arise....or forever be fallen!!!

Hey guys

Am in Lagos doesn't mean I came with food o

Welcome me first before asking for item 7

These dude just called me now and what he's concerned about is food
NB- eat before coming

cdoffx: website not yet completed. Should however be completed after the first meeting. Oga Ehix please clarify

You are correct, the issues to be discussed cos the. Name issue may not be what we think it is...its not easy I must tell you but we have to keep on keeping on!!!

The Ibadan crew have landed in Lagos

Where are u guys from other parts of Nigeria

Expecially those nearby (abeokuta,ife,oyo,ijebu,)

Where are u guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!

its good to be in lagos

hope to see you all tomorow

i hope we all are going to be puntual

dont forget we are all graduates

and it should show in our behaviour

real-teflon:
Please change the name to Movement Against Unemployed Graduate in Nigeria (MAUGN)

Movement can never be approved by CAC (cooperate affairs commissson)
They would see it as mend or boko haram and we don't want that kind of tag

Even National can't be used cos its sounds like a FG programme and we need to be under a National body to be approved...thanks

together we shall win through to absolute victory

How can I describe tomorrow ?
How poetic can I be?
Who am I speaking for?
And who is ready to hear me?

I tried so hard to picture tomorrow
But my vision looks blury
My eyes go teary-minds weary
So with the last drop of blood in our tiny veins
We shall give it up all but not in vain

This is our contribution in building the Nation
This is our voices--- a voice
Our choices------a choice
Our struggle------a struggle

So our lives today we shall save to die another day if we fight for it today!!
Ehis Abuya

Ibadan people let's move together,probably pay for a bus or whoever wishes to donate cars!

I agree with GAny Amen
This piece was extracted from our facebook page


Gany Ameen
Its a good move, i pray that the initiators' objective would not be redirected. My free professional advice: 1. Dressing code for all meeting should be corporate. 2. Only English Language should be allowed in all forum. 3. No anti-govt song, slogan etc should allowed (at least for now). 4. No insult, name calling etc of any political office holder. 5. Members should be oriented how to talk to the press. 6. The open objective should be " reducing the rate of unemployment in Nigeria" . 7. the Exco should always let the press know that our political leaders are not the problem of unemployment but the policies & their implementations which need change. 8. No support should be welcomed from any political party or its representative (for now). 9. Note that you are all professionals in different fields, act as such - no aluta songs; Do more of writing to the authourity than talking. You can take all this, edit it or leave it but please no one should insult my personality. I pray for the success of your mission.

Visit our facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Association-Of-Unemployed-Graduates-NAUG/1406249762926389

In4matic: please Mr stainless,
this your move although laudable has to be approved by the pioneers of this dream in the person of the Op and i am not aware he has said anything to this effect. the body meets in Lagos and that is all that has been passed across.
attention @Ehixking, please verify.

Send us a detailed report of any meeting you want us to hold for approval

Ehixking@gmail.com

Another patherotic Nigerian Mr. Funsho Edwards just created a logo for the association.

Check it out on our facebook page


https://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Association-Of-Unemployed-Graduates-NAUG/1406249762926389

In4matic: please Mr stainless,
this your move although laudable has to be approved by the pioneers of this dream in the person of the Op and i am not aware he has said anything to this effect. the body meets in Lagos and that is all that has been passed across.
attention @Ehixking, please verify.

To those in Delta state tryna hold any rally or meeting...
I must tell you am not aparthy to that!
Give me a call first

channels TV just informed the they would be around on saturday the 7th to grace the occassion..
May God bless you guys

mko abiola: Hw will u get money to finance ur assosciation? cos u will need finance as tym goes on.

We need brains not money...

DinhoMVP: Unemployment or bearing the unemployed status is a function of the mind for those of u coming under this sympathy seeking umbrella I pray GOD opens not just ur sight eyes but also the eyes of ur mind so u can comprehend the enormous opportunities and abilities he has deposited right in front of u and also give u the grace to maximally explore and utilise them to great effect then u'll never think of equating urself in the "unemployed" bracket ever again.
GOD's grace to you all #dinhocares

Thanks a lot
But I must say if God has open your sight and the eyes of your mind( like you said earlier) you would have read that the NAUG is just to catch your attention
This is a movement against unemployment and even CEO have been identifying themelves with our movement

People please read and understand before commenting so at least you won't expose your ignorance to the world

Good morning to the great people of Nigeria
First I would like to commend everyone's effort
Just for acknowledging the fact that there is a problem that cuts across every home which is unemployment. If you believe its non of your business since you are employed...well just take a minute and reason fine because most definitely your siblings,cousins,parents,friends or even enemies are affected somewhere close to you.
A rich man in the mist of 100's of poor men is a pauper
The name NAUG- has gotten the attention I wanted and I thank God for that, Most definitely its going to be changed and please don't just sit in your rooms and start making suggestions about names. Be present at the meeting and voice out your opinions
Its an obvious fact that only a person knows where his shoes hurts for those talking about getting something doing,Nigerian youth I beg of you don't listen to these people...its either their fathers are those squandering our money,or they were just fortunate to get a job after school because they know one oga at the top,they mention Mark Elliot Zuckerberg have you forgotten the school he attended? Most nigerians don't even have computer talk less of being a computer programmer! Those guys talking about using ones talent.... I must tell you I have so many writers that have not been published at all, so many talented musicians without money for a demo tape, so many artist that have no galleries,footballers-- no soccer academies,farmers can't afford land,poet, novelist,
So many ideas that have ended in the dustbin
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg did not go through NEPA problem,ASUU strike bad roads,corruption,tribalism,nepotism,ethnic and religious crisis..he went to the best school in the world...now our ASUU is on strike
I would one day like to take people on a tour to Abuja, to a place very close to asokoro called Galadimawa its just a stone throw to aso rock- there is a small part that divides it from each other(Asokoro and galadimawa)
Asokoro is like heaven but galadimawa is a living hell..the houses are not arranged? The buildings are closely packed, the roads are not good infact in the rainy season its like a plague, water never runs- no pipes or even a plan for water, the markets are so dirty,food items for sale are packed on the floor, children don't go to school or are half "nnaked" with tattered shorts with their "ppeniss" peeping out ....but yet its close to aso rock...its just a stone throw. Asokoro is beautiful, silent...in short words can't describe how beautiful it is
So when those living in Asokoro start saying get something doing,use your talent we that grew up in "Galadimawa" should have a reply for them.. please don't listen to them. And so it is not only in galadimawa its also the same in Mararaba, Nyanya, mpape- also in lagos ajegunle, mushin,
In ibadan, bere, Agbowo

And so on- its time to take charge . We have our brains to use and not the sword...
Let come together and think of moving ahead
Thanks
Ehis Abuya

blink182: Fools! Where exactly do you people want the jobs to be created from? Better go do something productive in your neighbourhood.

You guys are about to become thugs, beggars, political fanatics and at best have the smart exco employed while you all waste your time making noise all over Nigeria.

I lost my job October last year and started building websites, importing from china, usa, consulting and I'm making more money though erratic.

You people should stop dreaming and become useful citizens. I really wonder what you people hope to achieve-the federal and state governments should put you guys on social security or what?

I wish you all the best in this fruitless endeavour.

My heart bleeds for you
tell us how you lost your job
Did you steal the money you used to travel to america and china after losing your job
How did you get the money to start importing from china
Why import? Can you be creative enough to use your God given talent to cope with NEPA, bad roads,poor network and start producing in Nigeria instead of turning your own fathers land into a dumping ground?

tony-kel:
Thank you Ehis. This is an opportunity all Concerned citizens like me have been waiting for. We must not limit it to the unemployed graduates alone. We must carry all along, people like artisans, technicians, Primary and secondary school leavers who have proven themselves in a particular field and who can contribute their quoter to national development for being engaged in any field of specialisation and who are of age say 18 and above must be carried along so as to give the association a broader and weightier image. Also,a suitable name should be carefully chosen as an umbrella covering the concerned constituent groups. Kelobo Anthony 08094845427, 08035476537

We would surely get them involved