Stop sleeping guys. 

Osibanjo was in Ibadan during the campaign for president Buhari and we asked him about the plans they have for the unemployed graduates(before her name changed from National Association of unemployed graduates(NAUG) to Association of Nigerian graduates against unemployment (ANGAU)

The professor said with pride that the association should be scrapped and that in 100 days jobs would be rolling out, he mentioned creating social security jobs 15, 000 in each state for graduates throughout the Federation.

Thank you very much prof. We are still waiting.

The website has been updated please kindly visit and register. www.naijagraduates.com

Did you apply for the Oyo state loan for new and existing businesses under the NAIJA-GRADUATES platform?

The Oyo state Ministry of Finance in conjunction with the bureau investment promotion and public private partnership hereby invite you to an interactive session on OYSG-CBN MSMEDF loan: On Thursday ,April 9th at House of Chiefs,State Secretarial ,Ibadan by 10am.
Attendance is very important, please make it a date.



For more information call 
Ehis on 07030717445
Emmanuel 08038573674

Thanks

Don't only read share with all the unemployed graduates you know!!!!!!

After going through years of hardship, over almost a decade under the administration Goodluck Jonathan's and his PDP administration, we actually thought we could seek refuge in the administration Buhari under the APC platform since "change" has become a household word since the campaign started.

An avenue presented itself for the Naijagraduates crew to meet with the APC's Vice president and we took it upon ourselves to be at the interactive session.
The obviously outspoken gentleman, an orator and a SAN of the federal republic of Nigeria took his time to speak about some of their plans for the next four years like every normal politician would but obviously we couldn't even get the definition of the change they have been blabbing about.

To cut the long story short, the gathering which was supposed to be an interactive session turned out to be a one man show, after speaking for a while questions that have been collated before his arrival was passed to him. 35 different groups were in attendance including NASME,NAUG,CORPS,CAN and so many associations and groups but he answered less than ten of the entire questions(each groups sent 3 questions each).

After skipping our major questions he was only able to answer one.
we asked that since the APC administration promised providing 720,000 job, what type of jobs are you providing for unemployed graduates we asked and to our amazement he said "social security jobs(similar to YesO of oyo state and LASMA of Lagos) and vocational training."

Now tell me, is APC not equal to PDP
These guys have never suffered in their entire life so they don't really understand what poverty really means.
Osinbajo is married to Obafemi Awolowo's daughter which means this is still a round-table thing. The rich get married to the rich and get richer and the table keeps revolving around them.

Its left for you to decide who to vote for in the upcoming election.

The devil(PDP) or the devil(APC) choose one.

Open Letter To The President:
Goodluck Ebele Azikwe Jonathan

Title: Where God Weeps: A Place Called Nigeria. By: Ehis Abuya

I don't mind wasting the last drop of blood in my small body or exhaust the vital capacity of my lungs till I run out of breath, If that's what it would cost me to write you so long a letter just one more time with steady hands and an open mind. "Just this one piece" before I die on behalf of all the unemployed graduates and youths in Nigeria under the aegis of National Association of Unemployed Graduates (NAUG)!

It might never have occurred to you, your Excellency, that you are the most powerful African as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria - a man overseeing 170 Million old men and women, vibrant young black children with about 250 ethnic groups, diverse tongues, highly productive and resourceful set of individuals.

We quite understand your zeal to invest in the next generation of our country’s youths by the various agenda and programs of your administration such as the YouWin projects, SMEDAN, SURE-P amongst other initiatives aimed at tackling the far-reaching malady of UNEMPLOYMENT in our country but sir, all these has done absolutely nothing in reducing unemployment in Nigeria. Instead it has been a means of exploiting unemployed graduates and hopeless job seekers.

I am very sure you are aware that Mr Abba Moro and the Nigerian Immigration Service scammed us N1000 each and nothing has been done about that incident since. Mr President, only the families of those that died, as a result of the stampede, were compensated with jobs. Sir never has it been known in any part of the world that death could be a prerequisite for employment while the multitudes were left wandering the streets asunder. Sir, my heart bleeds that the unemployed graduates of Nigerian institutions of higher learning still roam the streets hoping that one day the promises you made to us while campaigning some years back would be made manifest in their lives!

Sir, you have been campaigning about attracting foreign investors into Nigeria as a means of job creation - that sounds like a fabulous idea to any average Nigerian but I completely disagree with due respect. Yes. Not so long ago, sir, you said in one of your speeches that “Our economy has since been rebased and it is now the largest in Africa; consequently we are now the 26th largest economy in the world and the largest trading partner of the U.S. in Africa". I was about jubilating when I heard over the radio that most of our foreign investors just pulled $584 million out of the Nigerian Stock market as announced by the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) in October.

The NSE recently experienced a sharp decline in market capitalization due to foreign investors' exit from the market in anticipation of the negative impact of the decline in crude oil price on our Naira's exchange rate. Sir, its obvious by now that foreigners are only here to milk our juicy resources and abscond when things go wrong. How many foreigners would stay when things start crumbling? Since you are a very busy man I would like to update you on the operations of some foreign companies in Nigeria. These foreign investors come into Nigeria, register their mutifarious businesses and use Nigerians as cheap labour. Most times, graduates end up not been employed and the lucky ones are usually under-employed irrespective of their requisite qualifications.

Graduates serve these outsiders as errand boys thereby defeating the purpose of the FG's initiative. They bring in their less qualified manpower under the guise of being expatriates to boss their better qualified Nigerian professionals, and in the process thereby remunerating them better than their Nigerian counterparts. Nigerian graduates are subjected to all sorts of inhumane treatment by these foreign sharks on their own soil! Mr President its the norm everyday by these Koreans, Indians and other Asian foreign investors as well as our South-African brethren!

So why not invest in us the gifted youth instead? Human capital is the greatest gift God has blessed us with; as such I would really urge your Excellency to utilise these potentials . The white guys perfectly understand this concept and therein lies the secret of their success. We hear of visa-lotteries here and there, which are absolutely nothing more than modern day slavery. Nigeria keeps losing all her best brains to other countries due to a dearth of decent welfare packages to put good food on the table. As at 2010, statistical excerpts obtained from the National Manpower Board and Federal Bureau of Statistics showed Nigeria has a youth population of about Eighty (80) million representing 60 percent of the total population of the country. Sixty four (64) million of them are unemployed while one million six hundred thousand (1.6 million) are under-employed! Other sources have it that 1.4 million graduates enter into the job market annually.

Investing in us shouldn't be a Mission-Impossible sir! "Nigerian graduates are not unemployable" is the usual refrain these days yet it's possible to engage most if not all unemployed graduates, regardless of their qualifications, in commercial and mechanised agriculture provided the right enabling environment is guaranteed! Just like any good father will, you can also motivate those graduates with lower grades instead of castigating them thereby frustrating them into becoming hoodlums. Why will first class graduates be jobless for years or as a means of upgrading themselves, still have to cough out huge sums of money to get post-graduate degrees, even in the Federal Universities? A case of paying the devil for the harm he has caused you!

I sincerely believe the challenges we have are in the areas of education and agriculture; only if these two are tackled will we be able to beat our chests and shout hooray. Let's go straight to agriculture because a child with nothing in the tommy cannot learn anything for sure, and if I may ask what has happened to our Agricultural sector that provided all the finance needed to host FESTAC '77 back when no other African countries had enough funds to spare, what happened to our Agriculture that built Obafemi Awolowo University, the University Teaching Hospital and Cocoa House all in Ibadan? Nigeria currently has large, untapped investment opportunities in agri-business, the lands are fallowing away for nothing, yet graduates and youth are still jobless and food availability is still a big issue. Its won't cost the Government much to organise the youths and provide them with all they need to produce food to feed the teeming populace.

Let's take a look at a few foreign companies operating in Nigeria:

1) MTN & Airtel - week after week, MTN keeps swindling 50 Naira each from millions of MTN subscribers charging them for ringtones and other third-party services without their consent. Are these the kind of investors we actually deserve?

2) DSTV & GOTV - they render poor quality services and yet they charge arbitrarily by the minute. Nothing has been done about the bad signals relayed during rainy and windy seasons yet they charge exhorbitantly notwithstanding the poor services they render.

3) Nigerians are fully aware of the dealings of several multinational companies like Shell, BG, Agip, Saipem, Sapetro etc., all operating in the oil-rich Niger-Delta region. How sustainable is our land and how drinkable is our water after their exploration or is it exploitation? Now its common practice for foreign oil companies claiming to spend over 900 million naira building a unit of line block of six classrooms in host communities as their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)!!!

These foreigners end up inflicting us with the viruses of fraud and corruption. They manipulate loopholes in the signed MOU agreements and collaborate with some corrupt Nigerian partners to take advantage of the masses. The word corruption itself is a foreign language to us - no wonder its has no direct meaning in most of our major ethnic languages.

So long as we continue to neglect the youth and keep investing in foreigners, Nigeria would continue to be a land were God weeps endlessly! Jobless youth would continue to settle for crime because it pays. Insurgency would continue, foreigners would keep exploiting us and taking us as slaves, the youth we think we have would all migrate and help build foreign lands rather than help develop their fathers' land. Thanks sir.

By Paul Awosanya
From The Ogun state chapter.



U know..
wealth only comes to those who have value to attract it or magnetize it.
It saddens me when people do not equip themselves and yet ask for what their capacity can not conceive.
It is true the government is failing in a lot of areas but I must remind you that even in great economic depression there are people who strive against all odds.

First we must not think or conform ourselves as though we are victims, although we are subject to d conditions the government and we Nigerians have created for ourselves but always keep it in mind that we are only subject to something to the degree to which you subject your mind.
We should always remember that with the right idea and persistence every man will make his way in this country though some might be super rich but at least you would be contented and comfortable.
This is the era that everyone will have to prove their worth before given honours, respect, recommendations or wealth.
wealth is earned and not a right of either the literate or illiterate.
You create a value system that can attract and sustain wealth. I know what you are thinking, am but motivating people or exercising motivational speaking.
Trust me, I know cause I have tried it n creating value and ideas thus brings wealth but you must prove you are worthy of whatever you intend to demand.
A certificate is not your license to wealth nor is it your ticket out of poverty, your certificate is only you approval / appraisal to indicate that your mind has been enlightened in both value, character n skills(in a field).
Rather think and think again..determine where u want to be prepare earnestly towards it,acquire everything, every knowledge and wisdom u can and then pray hard..
Trust me the opportunities will come running towards you till it find you and if you go finding the opportunities, opportunity will be glad you came because you are exactly what its been looking for.

Pray they don't sell you plus the Market...lol

who are they fooling?
Are we still slaves?
Are they still using us on our fathers land? Or Have we been sold out by those we voted for? Have you ever thought of how hard it is for an African-black to acquire a piece of land in the US, UK or any of these foreign countries. But if you guys are have shown quick or keen perception to your environment, you would have noticed that all the land in the outskirts and villages of Nigeria, have almost been bought over by these foreigners in large hectares by most especially the Lebanese, koreans, Chinese,indians-who buy to farm and employ Nigerian graduates as cheap labour and pay them "chicken-feeds" some buy for illegally mining and destroying our ecosystem and no one's say anything about that. Or could this be the way the government have been trying to attract foreign investors? Nigerians in diaspora are treated like animals after mere misdemeanour and given bad names, we see videos posted online everyday. African kids are now been stigmatised in New York because of Ebola.

The last time the UK government noticed there are so many African immigrants in their country, they introduced the"BOND" we don't have a knife in our teeth yet to solve our problems in Nigeria- Youths are all jobless all over the place, those that want to go into Agriculture don't have access to land(not to talk of soft loans) yet we keep selling out our lands plus the media preaching the youths don't want to go into agriculture is indeed a delusional thing to say, why the hostility? You have no regards for your youths yet you claim they are the leaders of tomorrow. who are you fooling?
Please and please Nigeria is not for sale, please stop selling our land away.

NAUG:"The wife that never gave up in the face of adversity".

By Ehis Abuya

A young woman after several years of waiting and praying so hard for a fiance finally got one. After couple of years of dating they finally fixed a wedding date- and on that fateful day, this woman who was rather new to the environment didn't prepare hard enough to beat the lagos traffic. She was held in traffic for so long, while the husband was already waiting in the church as frustrated as a hungry arm-less child in front of a bowl of rice and fried curry-chicken.

The bride's friends started panicking and even those that were supposed to bolster her didn't help matters.
The bride sat her back down for a while and after several "flashbacks" on how much she has suffered so hard to keep this relationship,she stood up and looked at her friends in the eyes, swallowed some "bolus" of courage and jumped out of the stretch lambogini and to every ones surprise she stopped and took the next available "Okada", with their eyes opened and jaws dropping she amazed them all and yet while so many tried to stop her she never gave up. Just about the moment the groom was about to call it quit, the complacent bride appeared in her dirty white turned brown french made wedding gown probably she had fallen down once or twice from the "Iyana-paja-type-road".

It all ended in euphoria- never did she allow anything or anyone steal her pride and joy not even the Lagos traffic on a sunny bloody day, Its was all about her at the end, "the wife that never gave up in the face of adversity".

As far as NAUG is concerned we must not quit and like this lady in question the end shall be all about us.
we have struggled so hard, and here is the point we shouldn't relent. Shall we go to sleep and create a society our children shall curse us for? Empowerment is our right,let's go for it...no matter what it would cost us. Here is a fight that should have been fought by our parents since slice bread- the politicians and only an elite few possess the arcane knowledge of the statistics of the unemployed. Its indeed huge and worse than most of us can imagine. We hear about governors and ministers children living the life of kings abroad yet we wait in servitude like fools for God to send a messiah. Don't be deceived those in government are only facetious about empowerment- In their dictionary it doesn't exist.

Join the NAIJAGRADUATES team today.
Let's create an environment our children would be comfortable with.

The National executives in a bid to strengthen our membership databases in all the states of the federation and to sensitize the general public about our activities towards transforming our society to a place our children and yours would be comfortable with have decided to set this week apart for mobilisation and sensitization from the comfort of our bedrooms using mobile smart phones and our various communication gadgets.


Due to logistics, it would be quit difficult to embark on a "sensitization walk" and using the conventional media would cost a fortune, so we came up with the idea of broadcasting our links, the website and all our social media links for seven days. This would be done by everyone who claims to be a member of the Naijagraduates Family or anyone that sees this initiative as a welcomed one.

Going by our statistics on facebook alone-This is an initiative that can be viewed by 50,000 people from all over the would if only all our facebook members can only share, like and comment for the next 7 days.


God willing and God on our sides
"Together we shall make win through to absolute victory"
AMEN.
www.naijagraduates.com
www.facebook.com/naugnigeria
www.nairaland.com/naijagradutes

Email- info@naijagradutes.com


Ehis - 07030717445
Kenny-08063141854
Dammy-08108023630
Yusuf-08064677418
Yinka-08034853297
Biola-08120108131

Abeokuta
Ayo-07031310646
Paul-08106348808
Sakiiru-07061941297
Ambrose-08033626637

Ibadan
Emmanuel-08038573674
Charlse-08035230970
Lanre-08100051688


Lagos
Medals-08166041508
Nelson-08134340182
Alex- 07030274887

No gate fee
No registration fee
No form fee
Absolutely nothing: just be present.





We are just like you anyway and we might not be able to get you a job in the oil sector but then all we want is for you is to stand on your own toes and be your own boss, employer of labour and entrepreneur per excellence....in fact this should be the dream of any sane man.
Oyo state graduates and residents must try to take advantage of the SMDAN and Naijagraduates Funds and training for new and existing businesses.
Its a lot more easier as graduates to tap into any opportunity available, during a phone conversation with the Director general of SMEDAN, the small and medium Enterprise Development of Nigeria he said,SMEDAN would help graduates to facilitate all resources required for the development of their businesses. He added that" Poverty, due to lack of access to income earning opportunities and lack of capacity to take advantage of the opportunities, is a social malaise that is threatening global prosperity in general and national economic growth and development in particular". The Naijagraduates/SMEDAN partnership would therefore be justified by the need to trigger the development of Nigeria's MSMEs in a structured and efficient manner.

So it would only cost you your presence at : Expoyo, Sango, Ibadan (SMEDAN office)
Description: Take a cab to Sango, alight at Expoyo Bus Stop or Alleluyah filling station after A3 Hotel. On the un tarred road, ask for the SMEDAN office (the building with the red brick wall).

Time: 10 A.M prompt

On Thursday, 25th October, 2014 it marks the beginning of the orientation and sensitization programme for all those that applied for the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN/NAUG) Training and Funding scheme.

WE HAVE BROUGHT SMEDAN TO YOU. (I THINK WE SHOULD GET AN APPLAUSE FOR THIS)

For Oyo state graduates only, both indigenes and residents- as regards the agreement between The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria SMEDAN and NAUG, Those of us that have existing businesses of all sort and needs funds DON’T MISS THIS OPPORTUN ITY FOR ANY REASON

SEND THE FOLLOWING TO EMMANUEL AJAGBE- THE OYO STATE COORDINATOR on 08038573674
Name
Tell phone number
Course of study
Field of interest
And indicate if it’s new or existing business

Please this should be done before Wednesday 3rd of September.
More info on SMEDAN
The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria SMEDAN in collaboration with the United Nation Development Programme UNDP has trained and funded 30 women drawn from five cooperative societies across three states on business development skills just last month and now NAUG has brought them to your door step.
FOR MORE INFO VISIT
www.smedan.gov.ng

For those unemployed graduates that wants to go into agriculture but unable to access land and implements, join the train to the Baale agbe.

"Join us on facebook.com/naugnigeria
Visit our site naijagraduates.com to register"


Please be informed, we are to mobilise ourselves to the"Baale Agbe" of Oyo state(The Chief of Agriculture of Oyo state) on thursday unfailingly.

He is in charge of land distribution solely for the purpose of agriculture, he settles disputes amongst local farmers and in charge of machinery and equipment.

During a phone conversation with him, he said its indeed going to be a great opportunity to meet with us, he said he has been hoping for a day the youths would revolutionise Nigeria by investing and involving themselves Agriculture- he says the time has come and there are several opportunities left untapped, he promised to give us his full support in terms of land and machinery.

This is to invite the Oyo states members and executives, There is going to be a meeting With the BAALE AGBE(Chief of Agriculture) AT Moniya AKINYELE ON Thursday 28/8/2014. Let's converge at U.I. first GATE at 2PM. PLEASE BE punctual.
Free Seats reserved just for the first 20 people.

Please be informed, we are to mobilise ourselves to the"Baale Agbe" of Oyo state(The Chief of Agriculture of Oyo state) on thursday unfailingly.

He is in charge of land distribution solely for the purpose of agriculture, he settles disputes amongst local farmers and in charge of machinery and equipment.

During a phone conversation with him, he said its indeed going to be a great opportunity to meet with us, he said he has been hoping for a day the youths would revolutionise Nigeria by investing and involving themselves Agriculture- he says the time has come and there are several opportunities left untapped, he promised to give us his full support in terms of land and machinery.

This is to invite the Oyo states members and executives, There is going to be a meeting With the BAALE AGBE(Chief of Agriculture) AT Moniya AKINYELE ON Thursday 28/8/2014. Let's converge at U.I. first GATE at 2PM. PLEASE BE punctual.
Free Seats reserved just for the first 20 people.

People have started responding to Event management and planning

Cassava has more applicants than other sections, soap making and ointments still need more.Nobody yet for art and craft...Amazing!!

which of these section would you like to work? Share with your friends...Now!!!!!

www.naijagradutates.com has been updated to include the following section as suggested by the director of the newly created Ministry of investment and public private partnership. Funds would be released to the unemployed graduates that in the following ventures


1) Cassava production and processing
2)Soap, ointment,insecticide production
3)Event Management and planning
4)Building and construction
5)CSGP(cattle,sheep&goat production)
6)Fashion and design
7)Recycling and waste management
Art and craft
9)Fishery,poultry and dog production
10)Piggery.

Choose one and follow the following the procedures below to apply

-Register on the website.
-choose your area of interest.
-Upload your CV
-text or mail your area of interest to info@naijagraduates.com or 07030717445 with your name(surname first)
And be ready to meet at any stipulated time.
Thank You.

akum123: is it only in OYO state dis is happening? am in PH hw do i go abt dis plsss

Register on the website and upload your CV so once there is an opportunity in PH we would let you know

www.naijagraduates.com

Info@naijagraduates.com

Choose A section and apply!!!!!?!

1) Cassava production and processing
2)Soap, ointment,insecticide production
3)Event Management and planning
4)Building and construction
5)CSGP(cattle,sheep&goat production)
6)Fashion and design
7)Recycling and waste management
Art and craft
9)Fishery,poultry and dog production
10)Piggery.




The National Association of unemployed graduates posted an advert about 3 weeks ago requesting for CV's. Some people also sent their names, emails and other details via text messages-

we are happy to inform you that we received them all and have presented it to the director of the bureau Investment and public private partnership, Mrs Folakemi Akinleye. Just yesterday the Oyo state coordinator and the National Coordinator and a few members had a meeting with the director in her office and she told us that the new ministry would be pleased to absorb some of us and for those with other initiatives, funds would be provided to us in groups or sections. She asked us to divide ourselves into groups/areas of interest so the ministry can empower those that are really ready for the projects. She said the government has helped so many group of people but in the end only a few who were really interested benefited from the initiative.


we received a total of 135 emails,296 text messages and 119 uploaded their CVs on our website out of which we got about 25 multiple entries and 53 text messages insufficiently addressed and altogether we have 475 new applicants,93 regular members(executives and members) and 55 contacts retrieved from the old website for the application.( Thanks to the head of media and publicity for his time,energy and money for collating the data)

And the next thing on our agenda is the grouping into sections and meetings. But to save us the stress and funds for transportation and the likes,the national executives came out with the following groups.

1) Cassava production and processing
2)Soap, ointment,insecticide production
3)Event Management and planning
4)Building and construction
5)CSGP(cattle,sheep&goat production)
6)Fashion and design
7)Recycling and waste management
Art and craft
9)Fishery,poultry and dog production
10)Piggery.

we shall send text messages to those that submitted their applications and any other interested applicant should follow the following procedures.

-Register on the website
-Upload your CV or text area of interest to the number displayed on the website
And be ready to meet at any stipulated time.

Thank you....
Any other suggestions or ideas for more groups or section call the National coordinator or your state coordinators.

JOBS JOBS JOBS for those in ibadan

we just got this email and the dead line is today so follow the process below if interested.

KyDAL Office Point:
We are Human Resource Consulting Firm, we deal with Recruitment, performance management, Training and development, succession plan, filling and documentation, staff solution.

Writing to request for Food Science and Technology graduate. Experience in fast food management will be an advantage.

We would appreciate if our needs are been processed immediately.
For further enquiries, call any of the contacts below.
: +2348131128194,+2348181918292.

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thanks.

Kydal OfficePoint,
47, Adeyi Avenue,
Off Awolowo road,
Old bodija, ibadan
Oyo-State.

We thank the OP for this....
Risk and uncertainty in agriculture could occur but remember a man that takes no risk makes no success

Please like us on www.facebook.com/naugnigeria
We shall turn around the Agricultural and industrial sector around.

For more about us and our activities like us on www.facebook.com/naugnigeria

BUXOMEBONY: good job you are doing,well done.

Thanks, we believe in ourselves and God helping us we shall make it.

Please inform your unemployed friends also.

Austindark: well lets see

and pls can those outside Oyo state send their cv

Ofcourse you can.

You can also upload your CVs on www.naijagraduates.com