Meel:
I concur with your points up there but I also wants to iterate some.
85% of graduate don't learn anything from the university. Lets not discriminate any university, be it federal / state anf private. There is little or no difference between a secondary school graduate and some PhD holder in Nigeria ( the only difference is that so called graduate has been certified a crammer, even though majority cheat there way through).

Nigeria Universities lecturer dont even understand what they are teaching and they teach students that graduate and also will teach what he doesn't know. And the cycle continues. literally nothing is learnt from the university that will benefit our society.

I believe the way forward is revamping our curriculum and scraping of courses which are not of economic importance.

Mission and objectives of the courses should be adhered to. A Bsc Agriculture graduate should at all time be able to serve either as a farm manager, consultant, researcher to increase national crop yields e. t. c ( But since it is lacram la pour and lasex money la mark we do how will that happen) B eng graduate should be able to design equipment to make life easy for us and by commercialisation of his design he gets his cash.

But here in Nigeria, what students says is that lemme just get this certificate, and graduate. And any country whose herd mentality is lemme get certificate and graduate can never progress.

In summary our education system is a Ponzi scheme.

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airminem:
Where is the 5million jobs campaigned by the APC?

Five hundred thousand jobs have been created through Npower. By next 12years they will create the remaining four thousand five hundred jobs. Nonsense government.

Hustle your way out, forget about this government.

airminem:
Where is the 5million jobs campaigned by the APC?

Very unemployable grammar.

bonnyhope:


oga!!!!!!!!!!!! is your company a rocket manufacturing one? so out of 25, not even one is suitable for the job, which means you did nt invite the right and suitable candidates.

It is a software development firm with a specific skill requirement.

Will you come for interview next week ?

We invited all candidates who claimed they were fit for the job through their CVs

Valentinooo:


Bro, solar is not also cheap. Imagine the cost of installing a solar that will be able to power a welding machine.

At the bolded, our Iq is not zero, just that we are not being trained on the relevant things, from primary school to tertiary

you've a point, "not trained on the relevant things". This means there is need for overhaul of our curriculum. But for example electrical/electronic engineering curriculum for HND / bsc don't have this new and relevant courses like Arduino programming, Raspberry pi ,programming robot, if these courses are introduced who are those to teach these courses since lecturers are not skill in these areas.

AntiWailer:


It is a software development firm with a specific skill requirement.

Will you come for interview next week ?

We invited all candidates who claimed they were fit for the job through their CVs

tnx for the opportunity but i am already engaged

HeyCorleone:


How many people would become entrepreneurs? And is such a thing healthy for the economy?

Sometimes, obviously due to the malign milieu of the country, some of you forget the main duty of a Government. What is "the citizens shouldn't be reliant on the government for jobs"? That's a very careless statement. Why else do we have a government if it's not to provide for the citizen? An alarming 47% of graduates are unemployed and you're saying people should not depend on the government for jobs?

The government has failed, in all honesty. Look at European countries, and see how much the government provides job for people.

All this campaign about Entrepreneurship to me is rather useless. Let the government rather create more job opportunities. Real jobs, not N-Power nonsense. If everyone becomes an entrepreneur, who gains? And what kind of entrepreneur? Shoe making? Tailoring? That is what you need in 2019? Do you think the government can empower people in ICT, Robotics, and other relevant fields that dictate the future? A government that cant provide jobs.

We should stop giving the government a passmark, or forgiving their excesses. That's why people come out en masse to thank a Governor or senator for tarring 1km of road, or for erecting water tanks with no alternate source of power to pump water. That's why people sing praises when 1 block of classroom is constructed. Because, like you, they don't expect anything from government.
The government owes you a lot. Until we develop that mentality, things would not change. It's not welfare mentality, it's simply democracy.

You said it all. How many companies are in our country. Thank God for the reform in the banking sector if not unemployment would have be doubled. Just imagine that ajaokuta steel company is functioning, we have like 5 automobile companies, 1 aeroplane and ship manufacturing company and able to to access loan for business. etc do you no the kind of job creation that we would have but direct and indirect.

The truth is our government are the problem they are dream killer,. No matter how you think positively and ambitious to believe in Nigeria and make it they end up killing that dream.

I use myself as a case study. Had a little business I was into, as at 2014 it was going fine. Was a distributor of one Maggi company, the business what moving smoothly. The company supplies the product to me on credit, I sell and pay them due to the fast payment they increased my supply, business was moving smoothly. My plans was in the next 3 years would have raised my own capital, to further invest in other business.

Not until 2015/16, due to the increase in dollars price of goods sky-rocket, people could not afford to buy the goods again. The company could not afford to sell on credit because dollar was not stable. Within a twinkle of an eye my business crashed.

Government have alot of role to play. I am not saying they should employ move civil servant or increase people on npower pay roll No. They should just creat good policies, make loan accessible. Then watch how Nigeria economy will boom within next 10years.

Government policy is everything, no nation can survive without good policy and stable policy.

Izime4:
Only one is correct! All the other reasons given are a complete trash.

Work experience is the only correct one.

They claim the system of education is bad that graduates are incompetent but they passed through the same system. Just because they have jobs they always try to degrade graduates.

Where are the job opportunities to employ these millions of graduates that keeps adding in large numbers every year?

There is nothing wrong with the quality of graduates. Some are anyway incompetent but this percentage is minimal.
They always try to use one bad incident to generalize it to all graduates.

The real reason why many graduates don't have jobs is lack of job opportunities in Nigeria.
Nigeria population have outgrown resources available and the government is not doing anything to solve this problem that can only get worse. The leaders in government only care about evil politics and embezzlement of government funds.

There are no job for Nigerian graduates? What then is the way out of this mess? Are we going to continue like this. Or we continue producing graduates who will end up doing "yahoo yahoo". Our youth suppose to be our greatest strength as a country.

True.

Judging by the way most nairalanders reason like animals , I agree that most nizoorian graduates are unemployable.

airminem:
Where is the 5million jobs campaigned by the APC?

You dey mind them, na scam

LordFaraday:
I just want to use this medium to make a report that someone has been posting some pornographic pics on this platform recently.I was so embarrassed today while in the bus reading some news on nairaland.I suddenly came across this pornographic pics while people sitting beside me saw this.I was really embarrassed cause it makes me look as if I was watching porn pictures deliberately making me look like a perv.Pls I want the mod and seun to take serious note on this.Have been recommending this site to responsible men and women in the society and such disdained behaviours are uncalled for.I believe nairaland has a standard and that standard should be maintained at all cost.And shouldn't allow unscrupulous elements destroy that.thks

This forum has gone to the dogs for many years now, it’s not a recent thing. The owner of nairaland, seun osewa is either sleeping or deliberately allowing the site to become a dumping ground for rubbish contents. It’s quite unfortunate because many foreigners are on the site and they are seeing Nigeria in bad light as a result of this.

AntiWailer:
Yea

But they come and blame Buhari.

As a hiring Manager, I have tried to fill just 6 roles before.

My team and I interviewed over 25 candidates and NONEv
was worth it.

Try me out sir.

D stupid govt knws all these but wickedness and greed will neva allow them to create an enabling environment for d citizens,no good roads,no light no water.cost of production is very high and tins are expensive and the unemployment rate is high.to give out loans is a prblm cos of high interst rate .abeg wia them want mke we start frm??evrytn abt nigeria is a SCAM... beware of thiis shithole called nigeria i smtimes belive dat satan resides in dis country cos d evil and wickedness particularly in nigeria is just tooooooooooooooo much.i hate dis country with a passion

larryking540:

u are u only person that has counter attacked me backwith a proper reason, nice comments, if welding doesn't come up, there are other fields u can dive into first, b4 switching back, we just have to learn to start small,an average 9ja person will want to start big asking me how will he get money to install 10 millionaire solar in his off,and that is d biggest fool I have ever seen, u have never owned a workshop b4 and u want to invest 10millionaire for a start up, infact he is a fool again

Which other field will need no power source for proper operation. May be buying and selling!! One of the indicators of a performing economy is stable electricity, any where in the world.

Votukpa:


I don't quite agree with you on your overriding point and here is why:

You blame the government for not inculcating the spirit of entrepreneurship in the youth and this is the reason why graduates are mostly unemployable in Nigeria.

Do you know what the word 'government' means?
Break it down;
Govern = rule or control or tame
Ment = mind, thoughts, thinking

If the entity you ascribe the responsibility to Inculcate innovation, growth and value creation (traits that are engendered in a atmosphere of a liberated and free mind) in the youth, you would be attempting to perform an impossible task- along the lines of sitting and standing simultaneously.

Education in Nigeria is governmental. It is mind controlled, or simply controlled. Ministry of Education. The Nigerian government still operates with vestiges of colonial framework of economic planning whicj has its educational objective to produce useful employees for a beuraucratic structure of production. In other words, entrepreneurship wasn't meant for the colony to imbibe. It was for the Masters to generate profit (from the colony/market).

Assess the objectives.

The objective of education in Nigeria is as described above. This is the reason why entrepreneurship training is taught after one gets out of uni and not during uni years. Admittedly, entrepreneurship is a spirit and, it like any other training that will prove effective in the future of any individual, it should be learned early and over time and not much later in life.

If Nigeria is to develop, it has to emphasize and reward value creation outside the educational system. It has to emphasize entrepreneurship education earlier on in lives of people (childhood). Will they do this? No. They won't.

It's not their their objective. Besides, too much money is being made from the status quo by the same governmental system.

Parents should train their children on entrepreneurship

Parents are responsible for the unemployability, self reliance and productivity of their children not the government.

Parents should Inculcate the thoughts and habits that engender and produce value creation abilities in their children, since their objective is for their kids to be self reliant and resourceful in the society. Every parent wants their child to prosper.

Train up your child in the WAY (entrepreneurship) that he should go and he won't depart from it later on in his life...

A bottleneck

This solution is idealistic, especially in the minds of many parents. They don't think their kids will prosper by building productive and enterprising skillsets from a young age. Why? They didn't have to do that. They had jobs waiting for them, based on their model of training and education. They are governmental so to speak and they can only teach their kids what they know- to be governmental. Go to school so you can get a job and make money.

We need a paradigm shift and it is already happeing.

Stop blaming the government

Teach parents to teach their kids today

Ok then... Change "the government" in the first paragraph of my previous comment to "everyone (both citizens and government"

Advanced Entrepreneurialship all the way
Mehn the hustle is real oo cos there's damn serious competition in the biz world. You gat to always up your game to succeed

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Elijahrona:


Now that the government has failed and proven to be unreliable, you as a citizen why not think of what you can do without them?

You are funny . Is it collecting loan with high interest and starting up a little provision store. At the end of the day the business would crash because of too much credit from your customers (who are mainly salary earners been owe for 3 to 6 month salary).

My dear if Nigerian where not thinking and struggling without government help Nigeria would have been like Syria long time ago do you think an average Nigeria care about government. Why things are like this is because it is now worse. The little we have been doing for ourselves government have succeeded in killing it. As you can see crime has tripled. The only thinking that is really what it now, is living this country. This is the only one you can archive without government killing your dreams.

wacuc0:
I totally agree with you. Here in Nigeria we want Government to carry all our burdens. Lack of investment by Nigerians is killing us. Even those that do invest, it is mostly for money grabbing not entrepreneurship. Ask, how many Nigerian owned business have seen next generation.

Abiola empire collapsed, Ibru, Igbinedion, Chidiebere Transport, Inyang Ete, name them. Hardly any business in Nigeria is run with cooperate identity. We have one of the highest idle money in the world. It can never generate employment. Our idea of education is looking for job which is a negative approach, this will make the sectors or our economy not to be developed while waiting for government. Thank God the music industry took it upon themselves to push on. Now they are the 3rd most branded music in the world. Do the same in textile, sports, agriculture (this is trying), Education, Health, IT, Medicine (this is the worst, almost all hospitals and clinics are owned by one doctor), Pharmaceutical, Banking (Soludo tried to teach us cooperate business in banking through merger and acquisition).

It pains so bad when you go to western countries you see companies of over 100years. You see people 4,5 and 6 joining hand and pulling fund to establish businesses that will run in over 150 countries. Why cant Nigerians do this. How many Aba shoe manufacturing young boys has teamed up to put up an enviable outfit to aim at having international presence in 100 countries. Very impossible.

nice piece from you!
kudos

pornmaniac22:
D stupid govt knws all these but wickedness and greed will neva allow them to create an enabling environment for d citizens,no good roads,no light no water.cost of production is very high and tins are expensive and the unemployment rate is high.to give out loans is a prblm cos of high interst rate .abeg wia them want mke we start frm??evrytn abt nigeria is a SCAM... beware of thiis shithole called nigeria i smtimes belive dat satan resides in dis country cos d evil and wickedness particularly in nigeria is just tooooooooooooooo much.i hate dis country with a passion

When you wake up every morning try to think positively on how to make it in life and achieve your goals to live a better life for you and your unborn kids, the only thing that comes to your mind is living this country.


This country now to survive you need to play dirty either you are a business man or civil servant, you just have to play dirty.

Op, as an employer of labor, I will say the biggest reason is the attitude of the job seekers. Some of us are ready to teach the necessary skills if they lack it. But these days, we have job seekers whose attitudes are nonchalant, lack basic formal communication skills, think the workplace should serve as an extension of their social network, are overly emotional, very unethical and with unreal expectations.

Everything listed by the OP is correct and many more. Nigeria is drooling in her own mess and shitss. I could remember in my 4OOL as a computer science student, I saw some course mates of mine who couldn't operate any programs in a computer..Well will you blame them? when they have never set foot in the comp. lab before and can't afford one. It was by the grace of God and my extreme measure that I became the software engineer I am today. So many loopholes in our educational system and it is not going away anytime soon.

Beside all these aforementioned reasons, the government at all level Should make up with the promises they normally give people during political campaigns, as regards to employment. If every state Governor, Local Govt Chairman and legislative member would at least establish a cottage industry in his or her area, do you know how many industries we will have in this country? I don't see lack of skills as the problem, cos most companies employ workers and send them for some months induction so as to enable them perfect in their area of duty.

I always thank God for the Technical school i went to. Right before graduation day, recruiters from NNPC, Nigerian brewries, Nigerian Army, Julius Berger, Nigerian Textiles and so Many more were hustling for candidates although as junior staffs.

Those of us with no one to sponsor us into higher institutions signed up and today, we are slowly climbing up. I just pity most of these engineering graduates from nigerian universities that come for I.T in my place of work. Ask them to bring you a ring spanner, gauge 12 electrodes or even a philips screw driver and all they will do is shine their teeth while guessing by picking up different tools

wacuc0:
I totally agree with you. Here in Nigeria we want Government to carry all our burdens. Lack of investment by Nigerians is killing us. Even those that do invest, it is mostly for money grabbing not entrepreneurship. Ask, how many Nigerian owned business have seen next generation.

Abiola empire collapsed, Ibru, Igbinedion, Chidiebere Transport, Inyang Ete, name them. Hardly any business in Nigeria is run with cooperate identity. We have one of the highest idle money in the world. It can never generate employment. Our idea of education is looking for job which is a negative approach, this will make the sectors or our economy not to be developed while waiting for government. Thank God the music industry took it upon themselves to push on. Now they are the 3rd most branded music in the world. Do the same in textile, sports, agriculture (this is trying), Education, Health, IT, Medicine (this is the worst, almost all hospitals and clinics are owned by one doctor), Pharmaceutical, Banking (Soludo tried to teach us cooperate business in banking through merger and acquisition).

It pains so bad when you go to western countries you see companies of over 100years. You see people 4,5 and 6 joining hand and pulling fund to establish businesses that will run in over 150 countries. Why cant Nigerians do this. How many Aba shoe manufacturing young boys has teamed up to put up an enviable outfit to aim at having international presence in 100 countries. Very impossible.

No body is telling the government to spoon feed the citizens. You mention of people not investing in country have you asked why. What is the meaning of government. Why is it cheap to refine crude outside the country than in our country. Why is imported goods cheaper than local made. Why is it so easy to import but very very difficult and complicating to export. Is all this fault of the citizens?

Government is everything you need to understand the characteristics of government.

larryking540:


people are going on solar, so bro electricity isn't our problems, we are just educated but our iq is zero

And it's very affordable like recharge card .

You know how much it will cost a welder to install a solar panel system that will power his machine!

SMH

chrismex:




You are funny . Is it collecting loan with high interest and starting up a little provision store. At the end of the day the business would crash because of too much credit from your customers (who are mainly salary earners been owe for 3 to 6 month salary).

My dear if Nigerian where not thinking and struggling without government help Nigeria would have been like Syria long time ago do you think an average Nigeria care about government. Why things are like this is because it is now worse. The little we have been doing for ourselves government have succeeded in killing it. As you can see crime has tripled. The only thinking that is really what it now, is living this country. This is the only one you can archive without government killing your dreams.

You're pessimistic, you have no hope for the country again. For me, I remain optimistic and hopeful... My positive mindedness and thoughts are enough to keep trying. You should try to remain hopeful too.

BTW you can always start a business without borrowing... Start as small as you can and build up. You must not start big or on a medium scale.

[quote author=uckennety post=81779945]

Oga your totally wrong

That illiterate welder can't pass ielts exam needed for Canada immigration

That illiterate can't fill Canadian Immigration form

or is skilled at field problem solutions

Finally he can't express himself and will have communication problems in canada

That's why Canada will never let him in!

Op have you ever wondered why this unemployable Nigerian graduate who has no skill go aboard especially Canada, us, Australia etc and they make it?

Until you figure that question out we will talk!

In aboard there are jobs for the educated, uneducated, skilled, unskilled, professional, unprofessional

But here in Nigeria bricklayer hardly sees work, painter the same, graduate same thing

As a mass communication graduate I v to start somewhere right

So I can build my skills

Alot of branches of mass communication and things I can do but no job

If not for the season poultry and clothes business
Since graduation in 2011 ooooo
I know that I won't even v data and phone to reply you

Op pls accept that we v a failed system!
Nothing is working except nepotism, favoritism, tribalism and corruption!
Why I put this up is because I have not seen an Hausa/fulani graduate unemployed for 9yeaes like me!
@ the bolded you are very very correct.....I was born in the north and schooled there,I love the Hausa's because they help each other in getting jobs,they help to lift each other up,they practiced love among each other and that is highly commendable....sorry to say this most well to do ''other tribes'' especially Christians only do eye service love but hardly help one another in getting jobs if that person is not their own blood,this is just the sad reality. Presently there is a Hausa neighbor of mine currently doing NTSC but a woman has offered to get him job in immigration immediately he is through,note that the woman is not his relation at all. May God help us in this country o

Cation:
you are a holistic evaluator.i like ur perspective

Thanks bro

uckennety:


Oga your totally wrong

That illiterate welder can't pass ielts exam needed for Canada immigration

That illiterate can't fill Canadian Immigration form

or is skilled at field problem solutions

Finally he can't express himself and will have communication problems in canada

That's why Canada will never let him in!

Op have you ever wondered why this unemployable Nigerian graduate who has no skill go aboard especially Canada, us, Australia etc and they make it?

Until you figure that question out we will talk!

In aboard there are jobs for the educated, uneducated, skilled, unskilled, professional, unprofessional

But here in Nigeria bricklayer hardly sees work, painter the same, graduate same thing

As a mass communication graduate I v to start somewhere right

So I can build my skills

Alot of branches of mass communication and things I can do but no job

If not for the season poultry and clothes business
Since graduation in 2011 ooooo
I know that I won't even v data and phone to reply you

Op pls accept that we v a failed system!
Nothing is working except nepotism, favoritism, tribalism and corruption!
Why I put this up is because[b] I have not seen an Hausa/fulani graduate unemployed for 9yeaes[/b] like me!

I have seen people who has professional certificate on procurement, logistics, IT, customer service etc still unemployed for years

All this HR pls stop talking as if there are jobs and nobody to fill them up!

If that's the case why don't you outsource from other countries

I have once been employed as a supervisor but my job description is a cleaner

The system v been abused

@ the bolded you are very very correct.....I was born in the north and schooled there,I love the Hausa's because they help each other in getting jobs,they help to lift each other up,they practiced love among each other and that is highly commendable....sorry to say this most well to do ''other tribes'' especially Christians only do eye service love but hardly help one another in getting jobs if that person is not their own blood,this is just the sad reality. Presently there is a Hausa neighbor of mine currently doing NYSC but a woman has already offered to get him job in immigration immediately he is through,note that the woman is not his relation at all. May God help us

Elijahrona:


You're pessimistic, you have no hope for the country again. For me, I remain optimistic and hopeful... My positive mindedness and thoughts are enough to keep trying. You should try to remain hopeful too.

BTW you can always start a business without borrowing... Start as small as you can and build up. You must not start big or on a medium scale.

My bro,the high level of outright nepotism, injustice ,looting and corruption ,insecurity etc is enough to make an average Nigerian pessimistic, the guy you quoted is right .....

Samson0599:

My bro,the high level of outright nepotism, injustice ,looting and corruption ,insecurity etc is enough to make an average Nigerian optimistic, the guy you quoted is right .....

I know bro. I am a Nigerian like you guys and I know that life is very hard... All I am saying is that you should not lose that inner fire... Keep it burning.

Elijahrona:


You're pessimistic, you have no hope for the country again. For me, I remain optimistic and hopeful... My positive mindedness and thoughts are enough to keep trying. You should try to remain hopeful too.

BTW you can always start a business without borrowing... Start as small as you can and build up. You must not start big or on a medium scale.

Sure am hopeful and optimistic on my dreams and goals but hope for this country no I don't. There is nothing to be hopeful in this country. When you hope on something you keep expecting more from it. My hope is on me my family my dreams and goals. We are on our own in this country the early we know the better. The country has failed. I'm happy you still believe in the country as for me I don't. There are two type of people that still believe in Nigeria

1. The ones that don't have source or financial capability to leave this country so they don't have choice than to accept and believe.

2. The ones that have everything but are ready to fight for the masses. This are the ones that really believe in Nigeria.

You should know that the government does not believe in this country it might sound stupid but that's the fact.

For me now is when I wake up I pray go out for the days hustle, always vigilant, after hustle get home as early as possible. Go out when necessary, spend on needs until, I get better chance of leaving the country. As of now we are our own pilot.

As of what you said starting business small and also starting without borrowing. I guess you are not into business. I would have love to break it down for you but it would be long epistle.

All in all let God keep blessing our hustle protect and guide us. As we continue to survive in this country.