charlly2016:
Our leaders acquired several certificates both at home and abroad, and still behave like illitrates.Imagine they went to China and brought less qualified medical personnels to come and help us treat corona virus. They usually bring technicians from abroad to come and supervise construction projects. Educated illitrates.

. Our leaders have no faith in the nation they lead. That is why they killed public universities, hospitals and government companies and that is why they are poor at human capacity development

femi4:
You dey mind them.....the unemployable graduate always go out of the country and secure juicy jobs.

. One major problem we have in Nigeria is that our government lacks job creation strategies. Our politicians only believe in making wealth at the expense of the masses

Nigerian graduates are highly employable; government and employers are liars.


It is so pathetic to hear the government, employers and human resource personnels make statement that “the reason for high rate of unemployment among Nigerian graduates is that they are highly unemployable”.


To debunk their lies, one need to ask where are the job vacancies which exist that cannot be filled by either fresh or experienced Nigerian graduates? If Nigerian graduates are unemployable, where did we get the employees of banks, judiciary, military, education, sports and the medical field? Are they all foreign trained or expatriates? Moreover, the local content act has given so much opportunities for Nigerian engineers to take up positions and projects in the oil and gas industry as well as other aspects of engineering.


They make so much noise as if there are millions of job opportunities lying fallow, waiting for expatriates or the next generation of graduates to fill as a result of the claim of their unemployability of this generation of Nigerian graduates.


Nowadays, employers only equate employability to having an extremely beautiful resume, proficiency in English language and the ability to have excellent scores in their interview questions. Anyone who falls below these criteria is considered unemployable and misfit even though the recruiters have extremely few job vacancies. These were not the criteria in the 60’s and 70’s when there were abundant job opportunities in Nigeria. Developed nations look beyond these attributes by providing on- the-job training, technology and business hubs as well as mentorship programs for their graduates.


Some graduates are termed unemployable because they cannot make correct sentences in English language. However, basic English language is taught at the primary and secondary schools and not at the tertiary institutions, as this is what most recruiters misunderstand. Employers should stop making mountains out of moles of the mass unemployment in Nigeria. The fact that there are few graduates who perform poorly at job interviews does not mean we do not have thousands of qualified candidates who perform excellently in them.


It is a pity that the liars have never for once said that Nigerian graduates are not good as political touts. During electioneering campaigns, politicians recruit both graduates and non graduates as ad-hoc touts to desperately pursue their political ambitions. However, graduates of developed nations are properly positioned to create jobs while children of politicians have juicy appointments waiting for them even before the graduate.


The government keeps shifting the blame of mass unemployment on the graduates because the government lacks job creation ideas as well as the ability to produce job creating graduates. Nigeria spends less than ten percent of her budget on education yet they want magic like countries that spend more than the twenty-six percent UNESCO standard. There are nations with high quality of education in which some of their tertiary institution drop-outs have created jobs that have grown to multinational companies.


Science and engineering graduates are the worst hit by the meagre spending on education because they are extremely good at the theoretical aspect of their jobs but lack the requisite practical knowledge because our campuses are blessed with virtually obsolete and empty laboratories and workshops. If these same set of people were to graduate from universities of developed nations, they would excel in all aspects their studies, become gainfully employed and even create jobs in foreign lands. The question to ask is, do we blame either the graduates or the government for the virtually empty and obsolete laboratories and workshops we have in Nigeria higher institutions?


Successive administrations in Nigeria have wasted several opportunities to create abundant jobs for her graduates. For example, Ajaokuta Steel Complex and the Delta Steel Complex are two projects that can provide more than three million direct and indirect jobs. Nations like India, South Korea and Iran that started similar projects alongside Nigeria have surpassed their installed capacities, and had established more plants.


Several resource poor countries have provided abundant job opportunities and become industrialised by importing raw materials such as agricultural produce, crude oil, iron ore and other solid minerals from resource rich nations like Nigeria. They set up factories, process the raw materials, add value and sell to prodigal nations like Nigeria. Hence, they make profits of ten to hundred folds compared to nations that sold the raw materials.


So much jobs would have been created if the right policies had been made. Millions of jobs were created in the telecommunication sector in 2001 by former president Obasanjo as a result of the right policy that was made. For example, the four ailing refineries have a combined processing capacity of 450,000 barrels per day if working at optimum capacity, while we produce 2,000,000 bpd of crude oil. Even at optimum capacity, our refineries cannot refine more than a quarter of the crude oil produced. If the right policy is in place, Nigeria has thousands of jobs to be created in crude oil refining and other aspects of the oil and gas industry alone.


When the government blames the graduates for mass unemployment, should the graduates then tell the government that they are not fit to govern because of poverty, insecurity, hunger and other anomalies in the land? Should graduates tell our leaders to step aside for leaders in the developed nations to govern us? The government should be aware that it is this set of people that are flying the flag of Nigeria in entertainment, arts, fashion, e-commerce, software development and sports with little or no assistance from the government.


Finally, a stitch in time saves more than nine, having it in mind that Nigeria’s population is expected to hit 400million people by year 2050. Abundant job opportunities can be easily created in all sectors of the economy if the right steps are taken.


oneolajire2000@yahoo.co.uk

COVID-19 HAS PROVED THAT NIGERIAN GRADUATES ARE HIGHLY EMPLOYABLE
Since the outbreak of the novel corona virus in Nigeria, it has been difficult for Nigerian government and elites to live the way used to. Previously, it is medical tourism to the UK or India. They detest the public health sector, while some even travel out of the country to treat common cold, malaria and many other sicknesses.
The major reason is that they do not believe in the quality of professionals in our institutions. Government prefer to waste money on frivolities instead of developing our institutions and infrastructures.
Presently, the stone the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone as the Nigerian health sector workers have become the major warriors in the covid-19 battle. They have exercised neither fear nor excuses.
The government has no substitute to the doctors, nurses, pharmacists, lab scientist, etc, they have always vilified. Almost all these professionals were trained in Nigeria and they are doing their best.
Imagine a situation where Nigerian airports were not closed and the developed nations have no case of corona virus, elites and people in government would have fled Nigeria for safety. We would have been left for spiritual and traditional healing homes.
Once again, covid -19 has told us to look inwards, invest in human capacity development, build reputable institutions as we have no other home.
I will keep saying that Nigerian graduates are highly employable.

TheGoodJoe:
Sowore campaigned repeatedly for the end of Medical tourism by government officials. If Nigerians joined him in the struggle, we would not need Covid-19 to show the above.

. It is difficult for people to join Sowore in his campaign because Buhari has been brutal against opposition by using security agencies. People have businesses to operate and are not ready to sacrifice.

Odinvahala:
When our government has decided not to value it's manpower but depend on China and the rest of the world .let China save Nigeria now .

They only use Nigerians for election purposes as well as collection of allocations from the federation account.

Nigerian graduates are highly employable; government and employers are liars.


It is so pathetic to hear the government, employers and human resource personnels make statement that “the reason for high rate of unemployment among Nigerian graduates is that they are highly unemployable”.


To debunk their lies, one need to ask where are the job vacancies which exist that cannot be filled by either fresh or experienced Nigerian graduates? If Nigerian graduates are unemployable, where did we get the employees of banks, judiciary, military, education, sports and the medical field? Are they all foreign trained or expatriates? Moreover, the local content act has given so much opportunities for Nigerian engineers to take up positions and projects in the oil and gas industry as well as other aspects of engineering.


They make so much noise as if there are millions of job opportunities lying fallow, waiting for expatriates or the next generation of graduates to fill as a result of the claim of their unemployability of this generation of Nigerian graduates.


Nowadays, employers only equate employability to having an extremely beautiful resume, proficiency in English language and the ability to have excellent scores in their interview questions. Anyone who falls below these criteria is considered unemployable and misfit even though the recruiters have extremely few job vacancies. These were not the criteria in the 60’s and 70’s when there were abundant job opportunities in Nigeria. Developed nations look beyond these attributes by providing on- the-job training, technology and business hubs as well as mentorship programs for their graduates.


Some graduates are termed unemployable because they cannot make correct sentences in English language. However, basic English language is taught at the primary and secondary schools and not at the tertiary institutions, as this is what most recruiters misunderstand. Employers should stop making mountains out of moles of the mass unemployment in Nigeria. The fact that there are few graduates who perform poorly at job interviews does not mean we do not have thousands of qualified candidates who perform excellently in them.


It is a pity that the liars have never for once said that Nigerian graduates are not good as political touts. During electioneering campaigns, politicians recruit both graduates and non graduates as ad-hoc touts to desperately pursue their political ambitions. However, graduates of developed nations are properly positioned to create jobs while children of politicians have juicy appointments waiting for them even before the graduate.


The government keeps shifting the blame of mass unemployment on the graduates because the government lacks job creation ideas as well as the ability to produce job creating graduates. Nigeria spends less than ten percent of her budget on education yet they want magic like countries that spend more than the twenty-six percent UNESCO standard. There are nations with high quality of education in which some of their tertiary institution drop-outs have created jobs that have grown to multinational companies.


Science and engineering graduates are the worst hit by the meagre spending on education because they are extremely good at the theoretical aspect of their jobs but lack the requisite practical knowledge because our campuses are blessed with virtually obsolete and empty laboratories and workshops. If these same set of people were to graduate from universities of developed nations, they would excel in all aspects their studies, become gainfully employed and even create jobs in foreign lands. The question to ask is, do we blame either the graduates or the government for the virtually empty and obsolete laboratories and workshops we have in Nigeria higher institutions?


Successive administrations in Nigeria have wasted several opportunities to create abundant jobs for her graduates. For example, Ajaokuta Steel Complex and the Delta Steel Complex are two projects that can provide more than three million direct and indirect jobs. Nations like India, South Korea and Iran that started similar projects alongside Nigeria have surpassed their installed capacities, and had established more plants.


Several resource poor countries have provided abundant job opportunities and become industrialised by importing raw materials such as agricultural produce, crude oil, iron ore and other solid minerals from resource rich nations like Nigeria. They set up factories, process the raw materials, add value and sell to prodigal nations like Nigeria. Hence, they make profits of ten to hundred folds compared to nations that sold the raw materials.


So much jobs would have been created if the right policies had been made. Millions of jobs were created in the telecommunication sector in 2001 by former president Obasanjo as a result of the right policy that was made. For example, the four ailing refineries have a combined processing capacity of 450,000 barrels per day if working at optimum capacity, while we produce 2,000,000 bpd of crude oil. Even at optimum capacity, our refineries cannot refine more than a quarter of the crude oil produced. If the right policy is in place, Nigeria has thousands of jobs to be created in crude oil refining and other aspects of the oil and gas industry alone.


When the government blames the graduates for mass unemployment, should the graduates then tell the government that they are not fit to govern because of poverty, insecurity, hunger and other anomalies in the land? Should graduates tell our leaders to step aside for leaders in the developed nations to govern us? The government should be aware that it is this set of people that are flying the flag of Nigeria in entertainment, arts, fashion, e-commerce, software development and sports with little or no assistance from the government.


Finally, a stitch in time saves more than nine, having it in mind that Nigeria’s population is expected to hit 400million people by year 2050. Abundant job opportunities can be easily created in all sectors of the economy if the right steps are taken.


oneolajire2000@yahoo.co.uk
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COVID-19 HAS PROVED THAT NIGERIAN GRADUATES ARE HIGHLY EMPLOYABLE

Since the outbreak of the novel corona virus in Nigeria, it has been difficult for Nigerian government and elites to live the way used to. Previously, it is medical tourism to the UK or India. They detest the public health sector, while some even travel out of the country to treat common cold, malaria and many other sicknesses.


The major reason is that they do not believe in the quality of professionals in our institutions. Government prefer to waste money on frivolities instead of developing our institutions and infrastructures.


Presently, the stone the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone as the Nigerian health sector workers have become the major warriors in the covid-19 battle. They have exercised neither fear nor excuses.


The government has no substitute to the doctors, nurses, pharmacists, lab scientist, etc, they have always vilified. Almost all these professionals were trained in Nigeria and they are doing their best.


Imagine a situation where Nigerian airports were not closed and the developed nations have no case of corona virus, elites and people in government would have fled Nigeria for safety. We would have been left for spiritual and traditional healing homes.


The way they destroyed the public health sector is the way they destroyed the four petroleum refineries and refuse to build new ones, prevent power but gave us darkness and generators, destroyed Ajaokuta and Delta Steel Companies, our agricultural practice when we used to export cocoa, groundnuts and palm oil and they blame the youth for unemployment .


Once again, covid -19 has told us to look inwards, invest in human capacity development, build reputable institutions as we have no other home.

I will keep saying that Nigerian graduates are highly employable.

They lied that Nigerian graduates are unemployable, please where did they get those working in NCDC and other agencies fighting covid-19? See their ugly faces as they cannot travel out for foreign medical treatments. We develop our human capacity together here or we enjoy the sufferings while it lasts.

Maximus69:


@ Matthew 25:41-46

Jesus' illustration of the separation of the sheep from the goat started from Matthew 25:31.

Everlasting cutoff or everlasting punishment means to be pitched into the figurative eternal damnation where Adam was thrown!

Let me tell you this you've never heard.

"The bible is the only book in which the author is present with every reader".

If you allow the author of the bible to explain his word to you, you'll be highly blessed. But when you lock up yourself in the explanations of watchtower, you have missed it a long time as they have never been able to understand the mind of God.

They taught you Adam was caught off, OK. They twisted the saying and seriousness of the savior warning people to
run away from eternal damnation. May the author of Bible open your eyes to see the truth of the bible. Eph 1: 16. -20

Janosky:


I challenge you to provide proof from your Bible that hell is lake of fire , can you?

Did God sentence the people of Sodom and Gomorrah to everlasting torture according to your teaching/doctrines?

Where in your Bible did God sentence the evil people of Noah's time to everlasting torture as punishment ?

I challenge you to provide proof..

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Challenged! You don't need to challenge God's word. Read Matthew 25: 41& 46. Explain what Jesus meant in that passage

Janosky:


Matt25:41 Jesus Christ NEVER said what you claimed..

Answer these questions jare... Na you get "spiritual mindset to interpret spiritual things"
(Whatever that means....)


My Questions:
Can you show us from your Bible where God punished Adam and Eve, (the first sinners punished by God) by everlasting, perpetual torture ?

Can you show us from your Bible where God sentenced Ananias& Sapphira to everlasting torture?


Where did Jesus Christ tell you that evil people are being tortured perpetually ?

Pls, do away with argument. Read Matthew 25 : 41& 46 . Narrate whatever it means to you so I can reply you.

HedwigesMaduro:


Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but gospel means good news. Hell fire does not exactly sound like good news, does it?

You mean you only need good news, that's right. Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, confess your sins. Jesus died for you so that you will have everlasting life. As in John 3:16, you will not perish when you get born again.

You don't have to entertain fear of everlasting fire if you have given your life to Jesus.

Janosky:


Hello People,una dey see am korokoro.....

Oneolajire can not answer the Bible based questions presented to him.
The man can not defend the JUNK he calls hellfire.

Yet oneolajire wants all of una to swallow the RUBBISH wey he post to open this thread.

Incrizz , come and see as una dey deceive una selves..

The challenge jw guys have s that they have been cajoled to use their natural mindset to interpret spiritual things. I have shown you what Jesus said. You have the right to believe or reject it. Noah told the people of his time and they queried him as well. I advice you to pray to God to open your eyes to see the damnation of everlasting fire.

Remember, Jesus is not a comedian, his speeches and parables are extremely significant.
Repent, and be converted before it is too late.

Janosky:


You and the OP, oneolajire don't know shishi...
Or Provide proofs...
My Questions:
Can you show us from your Bible where God punished Adam and Eve, (the first sinners punished by God) by everlasting, perpetual torture ?

Can you show us from your Bible where God sentenced Ananias& Sapphira to everlasting torture?

Shalom.

see as he is asking as if I wrote the bible. Guy, the bible is written in English language for you and me to read. Deliver yourself from doctrines of men and embrace the truth

budaatum:
You keep pointing at government as if government is some lot of people who dropped down from Mars and not the people we elected ourselves. Surely if we wanted them to solve our problems for us we'd elect problem solvers, but do we?

I'm a strong advocate in one's life being in ones own hands, and not one to believe in waiting for others to come and be my messiah, be they government or anyone else.

Our education system does not on the whole equip our graduates to solve problems, is my point here, or our graduates would use their education to solve their number one problem, which is finding a source of income. Thankfully, the one I did show you is just one of very many as many graduates do take their life into their own hands like he has done and found something worthwhile to do. You must be aware that just mentioning on his cv what he mentioned there would make him wantable. Or would you rather hire one who was waiting for government and not hire him?

You mentioned graduate teachers. I know many who are taking advantage of the abysmal secondary education in their state and have set up a private home tutoring service. A group I know are currently looking for funding to launch an app to connect their students with tutors. Their take home pay was over 200k each last year just for teaching mathematics, and they reckon they'll clear half a million this year and a million each the next.


You mentioned agric. Amazingly, that is one field where lots of opportunity abound as traditional agric is stuck in the dark ages and well educated farmers can and are making a killing with modern techniques. Do you know Nigeria is one of the lowest meat consuming nations in the world? You'd be amazed what can be done on a ranch instead of leaving cattle rearing to uneducated Fulanis.

Anyway, I'm done here, talking from both sides of the mouth as you say. You got it all sorted and I'm pleased.

My main point of writing this post is to affirm that Nigerian youths are highly employable and not the other way round.

I'm very informed, (click my moniker and have a view of my write ups on entrepreneurship, job creation, agriculture etc) I know several examples of individual efforts some have made to make impact in the society, such as the corp member you mentioned earlier.

The individual efforts are too few- just like taking a cup out of the ocean.

Sometimes government of responsible nations don't even create the jobs but they provide avenues for investment. Our leaders are mostly voted on religious or ethnic sentiment, and not by merit due to illiteracy and lack of information and the political space being already highjacked by cabals and political godfathers.


A lot can still be done to create job for the large number of unemployed graduates in Nig by both public and private sector. They are simple steps as I believe

budaatum:

You already have my response. I recommended two solutions. "Revamp our education so it teaches people to solve problems they face. And electrify (though, since electricity is a function of education, solve the first, and there shall be light)", and neither is to "make HR personnel feel pompous", as you allege.

I do wonder though, why you think it is someone's responsibility to employ graduates instead of graduates employing themselves. After all, a graduates will have spent 4 or so many years learning something or the other, so why can't they use their knowledge to make themselves useful at least so someone may want to employ them, and that, if they can't gainfully employ themselves? Is their graduation not in problem solving, perhaps? Did they learn nothing?

Please read of a recent graduate below and tell me if this graduate will be gainfully employed solving problems.

I don't agree with you because you spoke from both sides of the mouth. Firstly, on one hand, you wrote that we really have the problem of mass unemployment, so you proposed revamp of the education sector while you also made a case for more electricity generation.

Secondly, on the other hand, you wrote as if the fate of graduates are in their hands as they have no reason to be unemployed because they spent some years on campus. Your example of what a corper did (a lone example out of tens of millions) is like easily catching a small fish out of the river, and saying one can catch all the fishes and whales in the ocean so easily.
The corper is brilliant, but how many of government's irresponsibilities is he going to address?




If I may ask, what problems will education graduates solve? They are meant to teach. They all pray to teach in public schools, but unfortunately, government seldom recruit teachers, so they take up jobs in private schools with poor payment.

If I may ask again, what problems do you want agric graduates to solve when political farmers are the ones taking government loans? Each time farmers are mentioned, what the government plans for are people who who use cutlasses and hoes in a world where there are modern and sophisticated means of farming.

When electrical engineering graduates cannot help contribute to solving power problems. Civil engineering graduates cannot help improve rail and road networks in Nig.

I can go on and on and on as touching graduates abilities at solving problems. Nigerian graduates are talented but unequipped.

I still maintain that government has a lot to do if unemployment is to be tackled. Government should not shift her responsibilities of job provision to graduates

MisterFresh:
This is front page material

rightly said

budaatum:
I guess you think hiring you is my civil duty, and not because I want you to slave for me so I can make money off your labour. Unfortunately, with so few jobs and so many looking, why should I hire a person who did not learn to construct a simple sentence if it is pertinent to the job?

Soon, being a graduate would be like primary school, and no one would touch you if you don't bring quality to market like a Masters. I can only hope you prepare or starve or you pray I enter the charity business or set up a church.

hi, still waiting for your response. the post is to generate intuitive reasoning on how to tackle graduate unemployment and not to make HR personnel feel pompous.

celeb4reallife:
Can't read all this. But when you ask question. ''are women really useless? Do you mean all the women including your sisters, all the female folks around you?

have you taken time to read through since you asked the question?

https://www.nairaland.com/5637388/nigerian-graduates-highly-employable-govt

Do you know that Nigerian graduates are highly employed? The government and employers say opposite to take advantage of graduates because of the mass unemployment in Nigeria. Follow the link above to see why the government keep saying that Nigerian graduates are unemployable.

https://www.nairaland.com/3102449/part-2-entrepreneurship-scam-nigeria

Do you know that entrepreneurship in Nig is a scam? follow the link above and you'll see how the government avoids providing jobs for the graduates

Tayeni:
You are contradicting yourself where you said the laboratories in tertiary institutions are empty.....therefore churning out graduates who have no practical skills... joo, is that kind of graduate employable?

The fact remains that 80% of Nigerian graduates are poorly educated, therefore unemployable. Whose fault? that is the one million dollar question.

I didn't contradict myself. Education is in comatose in Nigeria, only that engineering and science courses are badly hit. Nations that have developed over the years make sure that the STEM -Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics- courses are heavily funded.

You asked a question in which you know the answer, it is not worth a thousand naira question

Job creation is not as difficult as the government sees it, Npower is not it, trader money is not. There are great ideas, it is only that our leaders don't want to think

both graduates and non graduates need jobs. There are several means which the government can make use of to provide jobs, it is only that they lack ideas

Nigerian graduates are highly employable; government and employers are liars.

It is so pathetic to hear the government, employers and human resource personnels make statement that “the reason for high rate of unemployment among Nigerian graduates is that they are highly unemployable”.


To debunk their lies, one need to ask where are the job vacancies which exist that cannot be filled by either fresh or experienced Nigerian graduates? If Nigerian graduates are unemployable, where did we get the employees of banks, judiciary, military, education, sports and the medical field? Are they all foreign trained or expatriates? Moreover, the local content act has given so much opportunities for Nigerian engineers to take up positions and projects in the oil and gas industry as well as other aspects of engineering.

They make so much noise as if there are millions of job opportunities lying fallow, waiting for expatriates or the next generation of graduates to fill as a result of the claim of their unemployability of this generation of Nigerian graduates.

Nowadays, employers only equate employability to having an extremely beautiful resume, proficiency in English language and the ability to have excellent scores in their interview questions. Anyone who falls below these criteria is considered unemployable and misfit even though the recruiters have extremely few job vacancies. These were not the criteria in the 60’s and 70’s when there were abundant job opportunities in Nigeria. Developed nations look beyond these attributes by providing on- the-job training, technology and business hubs as well as mentorship programs for their graduates.

Some graduates are termed unemployable because they cannot make correct sentences in English language. However, basic English language is taught at the primary and secondary schools and not at the tertiary institutions, as this is what most recruiters misunderstand. Employers should stop making mountains out of moles of the mass unemployment in Nigeria. The fact that there are few graduates who perform poorly at job interviews does not mean we do not have thousands of qualified candidates who perform excellently in them.

It is a pity that the liars have never for once said that Nigerian graduates are not good as political touts. During electioneering campaigns, politicians recruit both graduates and non graduates as ad-hoc touts to desperately pursue their political ambitions. However, graduates of developed nations are properly positioned to create jobs while children of politicians have juicy appointments waiting for them even before the graduate.

The government keeps shifting the blame of mass unemployment on the graduates because the government lacks job creation ideas as well as the ability to produce job creating graduates. Nigeria spends less than ten percent of her budget on education yet they want magic like countries that spend more than the twenty-six percent UNESCO standard. There are nations with high quality of education in which some of their tertiary institution drop-outs have created jobs that have grown to multinational companies.

Science and engineering graduates are the worst hit by the meagre spending on education because they are extremely good at the theoretical aspect of their jobs but lack the requisite practical knowledge because our campuses are blessed with virtually obsolete and empty laboratories and workshops. If these same set of people were to graduate from universities of developed nations, they would excel in all aspects their studies, become gainfully employed and even create jobs in foreign lands. The question to ask is, do we blame either the graduates or the government for the virtually empty and obsolete laboratories and workshops we have in Nigeria higher institutions?

Successive administrations in Nigeria have wasted several opportunities to create abundant jobs for her graduates. For example, Ajaokuta Steel Complex and the Delta Steel Complex are two projects that can provide more than three million direct and indirect jobs. Nations like India, South Korea and Iran that started similar projects alongside Nigeria have surpassed their installed capacities, and had established more plants.

Several resource poor countries have provided abundant job opportunities and become industrialised by importing raw materials such as agricultural produce, crude oil, iron ore and other solid minerals from resource rich nations like Nigeria. They set up factories, process the raw materials, add value and sell to prodigal nations like Nigeria. Hence, they make profits of ten to hundred folds compared to nations that sold the raw materials.

So much jobs would have been created if the right policies had been made. Millions of jobs were created in the telecommunication sector in 2001 by former president Obasanjo as a result of the right policy that was made. For example, the four ailing refineries have a combined processing capacity of 450,000 barrels per day if working at optimum capacity, while we produce 2,000,000 bpd of crude oil. Even at optimum capacity, our refineries cannot refine more than a quarter of the crude oil produced. If the right policy is in place, Nigeria has thousands of jobs to be created in crude oil refining and other aspects of the oil and gas industry alone.

When the government blames the graduates for mass unemployment, should the graduates then tell the government that they are not fit to govern because of poverty, insecurity, hunger and other anomalies in the land? Should graduates tell our leaders to step aside for leaders in the developed nations to govern us? The government should be aware that it is this set of people that are flying the flag of Nigeria in entertainment, arts, fashion, e-commerce, software development and sports with little or no assistance from the government.

Finally, a stitch in time saves more than nine, having it in mind that Nigeria’s population is expected to hit 400million people by year 2050. Abundant job opportunities can be easily created in all sectors of the economy if the right steps are taken.

oneolajire2000@yahoo.co.uk

share this until it gets to the government.

budaatum:

We really do not create enough jobs for the number of graduates seeking. We, as a nation, do not invest in the infrastructure that would create jobs. You'd see this in the little amount of internal and foreign investment in Nigeria, and the low productivity. Go to a local government authority and you'd see most have no electricity and lots of staff hanging around doing nothing. Yet they all get paid (unless Aregbe is your governor then you don't for months!), for producing absolutely nothing, partly due to lack of resources to do anything but mostly through mismanagement and ineptitude.

It also does not help that as soon as a Nigerian has money, they fly abroad to go shopping, they buy a foreign car and taps for the sinks in their house, eba and fufu goes off the menu, and if they have enough they'd buy education abroad for their children too. All this creates employment abroad and not in Nigeria. But can you blame the Nigerian with money? Healthcare and education in UK is done by angels from God compared to what Nigeria has to offer and even Nigerians working there become angels on arrival.

It is not just about English, but about our education system which is still stuck in archaics inherited from religion. Instead of teaching our graduates to think and reason, we teach them to believe, which has a tendency to destroy their ability to create. If our graduates are taught to think, reason and create, they themselves would create the jobs and employ themselves and the illiterates.

So, I'll recommend two solutions. Revamp our education so it teaches people to solve problems they face. And electrify (though, since electricity is a function of education, solve the first, and there shall be light). If we don't, our 43.87% population aged 0-14 in 2018, would have had their children and by 2050, might be 70%. One just need think how many would become alimajeri, fulani herdsmen, ritualists, and armed robbers, after all, they too must eat.

yea, our education needs to be seriously revamped. Abundant jobs can still be created in several sections of the economy, not only in electricity provision.

we spoken too much English in Nigeria, yet, Indians that do not understand English like we do are better than Nigeria in engineering and job provision. Ask Dangote why he makes use of Indians and their technology.

budaatum:
I guess you think hiring you is my civil duty, and not because I want you to slave for me so I can make money off your labour. Unfortunately, with so few jobs and so many looking, why should I hire a person who did not learn to construct a simple sentence if it is pertinent to the job?

Soon, being a graduate would be like primary school, and no one would touch you if you don't bring quality to market like a Masters. I can only hope you prepare or starve or you pray I enter the charity business or set up a church.

what about the millions of graduates who understand English language and perform well at job interviews and yet are unemployed? do they deserve gainful employment?

Nigeria is creating an army of unemployed graduates, if the situation is so terrible now, what would it look like in 2050?

If we are still talking about graduate unemployment, what about the higher number of unemployed illiterates we have, won't they result into crime and prevent the employed ones to enjoy their wages?

Nigerian graduates are highly employable; government and employers are liars.


It is so pathetic to hear the government, employers and human resource personnels make statement that “the reason for high rate of unemployment among Nigerian graduates is that they are highly unemployable”.

To debunk their lies, one need to ask where are the job vacancies which exist that cannot be filled by either fresh or experienced Nigerian graduates? If Nigerian graduates are unemployable, where did we get the employees of banks, judiciary, military, education, sports and the medical field? Are they all foreign trained or expatriates? Moreover, the local content act has given so much opportunities for Nigerian engineers to take up positions and projects in the oil and gas industry as well as other aspects of engineering.

They make so much noise as if there are millions of job opportunities lying fallow, waiting for expatriates or the next generation of graduates to fill as a result of the claim of their unemployability of this generation of Nigerian graduates.

Nowadays, employers only equate employability to having an extremely beautiful resume, proficiency in English language and the ability to have excellent scores in their interview questions. Anyone who falls below these criteria is considered unemployable and misfit even though the recruiters have extremely few job vacancies. These were not the criteria in the 60’s and 70’s when there were abundant job opportunities in Nigeria. Developed nations look beyond these attributes by providing on- the-job training, technology and business hubs as well as mentorship programs for their graduates.

Some graduates are termed unemployable because they cannot make correct sentences in English language. However, basic English language is taught at the primary and secondary schools and not at the tertiary institutions, as this is what most recruiters misunderstand. Employers should stop making mountains out of moles of the mass unemployment in Nigeria. The fact that there are few graduates who perform poorly at job interviews does not mean we do not have thousands of qualified candidates who perform excellently in them.

It is a pity that the liars have never for once said that Nigerian graduates are not good as political touts. During electioneering campaigns, politicians recruit both graduates and non graduates as ad-hoc touts to desperately pursue their political ambitions. However, graduates of developed nations are properly positioned to create jobs while children of politicians have juicy appointments waiting for them even before the graduate.

The government keeps shifting the blame of mass unemployment on the graduates because the government lacks job creation ideas as well as the ability to produce job creating graduates. Nigeria spends less than ten percent of her budget on education yet they want magic like countries that spend more than the twenty-six percent UNESCO standard. There are nations with high quality of education in which some of their tertiary institution drop-outs have created jobs that have grown to multinational companies.

Science and engineering graduates are the worst hit by the meagre spending on education because they are extremely good at the theoretical aspect of their jobs but lack the requisite practical knowledge because our campuses are blessed with virtually obsolete and empty laboratories and workshops. If these same set of people were to graduate from universities of developed nations, they would excel in all aspects their studies, become gainfully employed and even create jobs in foreign lands. The question to ask is, do we blame either the graduates or the government for the virtually empty and obsolete laboratories and workshops we have in Nigeria higher institutions?

Successive administrations in Nigeria have wasted several opportunities to create abundant jobs for her graduates. For example, Ajaokuta Steel Complex and the Delta Steel Complex are two projects that can provide more than three million direct and indirect jobs. Nations like India, South Korea and Iran that started similar projects alongside Nigeria have surpassed their installed capacities, and had established more plants.

Several resource poor countries have provided abundant job opportunities and become industrialised by importing raw materials such as agricultural produce, crude oil, iron ore and other solid minerals from resource rich nations like Nigeria. They set up factories, process the raw materials, add value and sell to prodigal nations like Nigeria. Hence, they make profits of ten to hundred folds compared to nations that sold the raw materials.

So much jobs would have been created if the right policies had been made. Millions of jobs were created in the telecommunication sector in 2001 by former president Obasanjo as a result of the right policy that was made. For example, the four ailing refineries have a combined processing capacity of 450,000 barrels per day if working at optimum capacity, while we produce 2,000,000 bpd of crude oil. Even at optimum capacity, our refineries cannot refine more than a quarter of the crude oil produced. If the right policy is in place, Nigeria has thousands of jobs to be created in crude oil refining and other aspects of the oil and gas industry alone.

When the government blames the graduates for mass unemployment, should the graduates then tell the government that they are not fit to govern because of poverty, insecurity, hunger and other anomalies in the land? Should graduates tell our leaders to step aside for leaders in the developed nations to govern us? The government should be aware that it is this set of people that are flying the flag of Nigeria in entertainment, arts, fashion, e-commerce, software development and sports with little or no assistance from the government.

Finally, a stitch in time saves more than nine, having it in mind that Nigeria’s population is expected to hit 400million people by year 2050. Abundant job opportunities can be easily created in all sectors of the economy if the right steps are taken.

oneolajire2000@yahoo.co.uk

share this until it gets to the government.

Adamswest378:


Are you on WhatsApp because I would love to ask some questions about this NDT if you don’t mind boss

pls let us use this platform for now so everybody can learn from our discussion

brandable:

Sir, please can you talk more on this NDT it might help someone reading this. Thanks

NDT is Non Destructive Testing. A branch of Mechanical Engr and Metallurgy. It can be practiced by engineers and non engineers, even secondary sch graduate. In Nig used majorly in oil and gas pipeline construction (testing welded joints). Used in other sectors (in developed nations) such as a aviation, railway, casting etc.
Radiography, Ultrasonic testing, Magnetic particle testing, dye penetrant testing.

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In one of your advise to someone on career path you said something about NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING,please I would love to know more about it and if by any means it can be available in NIGERIA for learning[/quo]

it is available in Nig, but better if you go abroad. Ph, Warri and Lagos are the three cities u can get the knowledge. Most NDT companies don't employ, they train for one yr after paying training fee BTW 100k and 250k while they pay stipend during training