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[left]Further more, the corruption exhibited by our government has led to unemployment. Those who are meant to use public funds for building more industries embezzle such funds for their personal use which resulted in massive increase in unemployment rate. Without going too far, Nigeria is said to be the eight most corrupt country in the world and so has high unemployment rate. Taking the case of the missing or unaccounted $20 billion at NNPC among many other corrupt practices and embezzlement carried out by our government, this funds could have been invested in infrastructures that will aid businesses which will create job openings but it is now a pity because it is the other way round. Chinua Achebe[1983] in one of the finding in his book, 'The Trouble With Nigeria' emphasized that the cult of corruption formed by our rulers, and their insatiable quest to loot the National treasury has sailed us into the 'ocean' of economic confusion and unemployment.


Embezzlement is not only applicable to Nigerian government bro. It's a world phenomenon. If there nation offers you nothing, why can't you offer yourself.

[left]Why has not any government made creating jobs a priority instead of promising roads and bridges


Are you saying construction of roads is not a way of job creation? What about the contractors of these work?

aysuccess99:
Hmm. I put it to you that it is not all students with First Class grade and Second Class Upper grade that get employment. The issue of unemployment is not about grades but it's the fact that our government do not create enabling environment for graduates to be gainfully employed.

In as much as I will agree with you that having a good grade will give you an head during employment process but that still doesn't determine whether one will get employed.

So, do you want to prove to me that all job seekers that are not employed all came out with a Pass grade or do you want to prove to me that 70% of those who graduate out of University came out with pass grade?

The issue we should tackle is how our government can utilize all available resources to create job for the teeming population.

From your first statement, it depicts the fact that you missed my point. I never said graduating with first class or second class upper is prerequisite to getting jobs. All I'm saying is, excellence is preferred to mediocrity.

Topic: The government is solely to blame for
high unemployment rate in Nigeria.
Stance: Oppose

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, “each year,
about 1.8m young Nigerians enter into our already saturated labour market.” This incessant increase elicits a lot of unanswered questions as to causes and consequences. I took an envisage look from my vantage points into the situation and came up with these points but before unleashing my convincing points of view, I must register my sincere greetings to those whom it's due.

Chairman of the occasion, inexhaustible moderators, unprejudiced judges, distinguished co-debaters, my untiring readers and audience, ladies and gentlemen, good day to you all. My name is Abdulkareem Abdulmumeen Omotosho, representing the prestigious better by far University, Unilorin in this debate. And solidly opposing the motion which states that the government is solely to blame for high unemployment rate in Nigeria.
To shed more light on the topic for easy digestion of the discourse, some of the wordings in the topic is defined comprehensively thus;


Government; The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
Blame; censure
Unemployment; state of joblessness.
Firstly, dismal performance during undergraduate. A graduate wandering endlessly about the streets for job but unfortunately couldn't find any. He became frustrated and started blaming the government for non provision of job opportunity. And do you have any idea to why he wasn't able to secure any? Because this person graduated with a Pass grade. The point here is that before we blame government for unemployment, let's ask ourselves what we are coming out with from higher institution. There's no way one will graduate with first class or even second class upper and won't be preferred to the other who graduates with a Pass grade. We have chance to determine what we want for ourselves after school right from our tertiary institution because despite the ever increasing rate of unemployment, handful of graduates still get good jobs immediately which is as a result of their unmatched performance. Take for instance, in my school, every first class graduate is retained as lecturer. This development goes a long way in reducing the rate of unemployment.


Secondly, sheer dependency. Our youths are over depending. When a baby is born, the responsibility of his proper upbringing is sheerly saddled by the parents till he attains adulthood. This time when he should be independent on any and thinks how to fend for himself yet he still wants to transfer his welfarism from his parents to the government. This is totally uncalled. If we cannot learn to depend on ourselves, if we cannot cater for ourselves, if we see our own duty as the responsibility of others, then, we are beyond doubt, getting involved in the unemployment problem in the country.

Thirdly, laxity of entrepreneurial spirit. Graduates always crave to be someone else boss albeit they should be their own boss. Some argue that they have no knowledge of what it takes to be an entrepreneur. Others digest the fact that being an entrepreneur requires a lot of patience and taking risks which may not be bearable sometimes, coupled with the bottleneck of its yielding. Being self-employed and self established so that one will be self sustained is one of the yardsticks for reduction of unemployment in the country.


Fourthly, nonchalant attitude to petty business, Me? After these stressful years in school, I will now start another suffering by engaging myself in one small scale business. God forbids!! This is one of the causes of incessant increase in unemployment rate. Every graduate needs to be aware that little drop of rain, makes a mighty ocean. They need to know that Rome was not built in a day. Great things are not done usually in a twinkling of an eye. Today, every graduate wishes to work with Dangote. They forget he also started as an ordinary small scale businessman. Had it been Dangote never indulged in small scale business then he might not be as affluent as he is now. Petty trading doesn't only make one to be self efficient, it also endows one with self reliance.


In conclusion, I crave the indulgence of all. Having highlighted the ways the people and not the influence the most the high rate of unemployment. The panacea for the mentioned pitfalls are for students to strive hard for a an exceptional grade during their undergraduate years. Students should also be equipped with good knowledge of entrepreneurs and what it entails during their undergraduate years. Graduates are also enjoined to imbibe the ideology of petty business and stop waiting for white collar jobs which they have no idea when their wait will be over. People should also learn to take responsibilities and stop the being total reliance and dependence on the government because as there are civic rights, there are also civic duties.

My unbiased judges and my distinguished readers, having read this, you must concurred with me that for unemployment rate to reduce to infinitesimal and negligible rate, people not government should be blamed and called to order.

Thank you
REFERENCE
English dictionary

bestnaija.com

Eiyah. Your course mate from another institution says rip.

Neyoor:
Or any date beyond 12th of march.

Your choice is apt and intact Sir.

Fynestboi:
Till when?

In my team leaders voice, 12th of March.

Neyoor:
12th of march!

Well done my able team leader.

Our first semester examination starts next week. Hope this development won't affect our participation here concerning timing of the next fixtures.
Thanks.

Neyoor,
fynestboi,

McLove:
Gentlemen of the press... Power of the pen
neyoor

Neyoor? You know him too?

Fynestboi:
Hmmmmm. If I start my own... You will understand what it takes for me to be online. Well it's all gone. Hope to see you in the next stage. Well done.

If I had finished mine too, you will have pity on me either....

Stlatyv:
there was this news that went viral "computer science student hacked out pause (to pause the timing while undergoing computer based test cbt). The end result shows truely they were able to pause the time but inreality the time never stop ticking (they get to know that after unpausing the time). Was that hacking or a practical waste of time?
The GSE stuff,that wasnt hacking but an internal problem experienced by the school admin as of then. The questions were set (written and typed before uploading) and inbetween these three process different hands were able to lay their finger on the question and for their personal gain start selling it out to students with interest. Those were not hacking but a studentship waste of limited time and act of corruption within the admin staffs as of then.

Thank you for this Eyeopener. Had it been you weren't here he would have put wool in our eyes with his baseless accusation.

dhesmond:
I testify to what you said.... am a a graduate of unilorin, the school site, even the cbt control system has been hacked over and over again... most especially during the tenure of the so called oloyede....

Please my respected alumnus of the bbf, kindly see my reply on this. Thank you

AlmuFty01:
@gamale and tourshw
Please both of you should stop this, we are in academic environment let all of us concentrate and focus on the topic of discussion.

Ok Sir... Apologies

Ishilove:
Hi snoopy. It's been ages

My observation is the debaters seem to have completely intertwined the internet as a whole, and social media. Note that the theme of the debate is the regulation of SOCIAL MEDIA, not internet usage in general.

Tourshaw, your closing points caught my attention, but the one I need clarification on is "the war on insurgency in Nigeria will be won".

Please clarify.

Thank you Sir for your logic observation but I must also beseech you to go over the essays we dropped because contrary to your observation, we supported social media regulations giving candid and cogent reasons for that and we highlighted the areas uncensored social media has been causing havoc to the Nigerians and Nigeria.

War on insurgency in Nigeria will be won as I said if we regulate social media. Yes, we have seen and heard of cases of Bokoharam using that loophole to fight our army in ambush and leads to their massacre. For a person to detonate bomb in the army barrack, only social media interaction can accomplish that. And once, it's regulated, the battle is won

gemale:
Oga check ur facts. Unilorin website nt hackable & has neva bin hacked? I laff u. U r clearly blissfully ignorant. I once knew som1 who could wt out sweat enta their database & change anytn he wntd 2. U r too young in d system 2 know d period wen som1 was hacking skul fees payment. Next time u wan bootlick, make sure ur facts r straight.

My learned bro, I never said Unilorin website is never asked, I said I have never heard of it. by the way, I don't know if you know what it actually means for a website to be hacked. When a website is hacked, is won't be silent and unknown. There are several times I have heard of universities websites being hacked. Some of them are,
Kogi state university http://www.elitesplanetblog.com/2015/11/kogi-state-university-ksusta-official.html?m=0

Federal university of technology Owerri http://www.tori.ng/news/4500/futo-school-website-hacked-by-suspected-students-s.html

Olabisi Onabanjo university http://www.myschoolgist.com.ng/ng/olabisi-onabanjo-university-hacked/

kano state university
http://www.myschoolnewz.com/forum2_theme_816035.xhtml?tema=3459

And the list continues.
So, my respected boss, if you can show us when is Unilorin website hacked by the way people will believe your accusation.

Thanks for your anticipated response

AlmuFty01:
How about creating a software (application) of which all information to upload on SOSO media will have to pass through screen before dissemination, here in Nigeria we have a body regulating that already I guess. This will as fast as anything done on the Internet because there are applications which can take care of this already left to the authorities to act to its effects.

Exactly what we are saying. That one too is part of regulation and censorship strategy

Temieasy:
My question is to tours haw.
Assume a body is being setup to regulate the social media crises, having known that we have several hackers in the country who can actually pollute an innocent website(s) and can lead to so many atrocities and such likes. What solution would you prefer to this? Regulate hackers?

Regulate hackers? That's obviously impossible. Though hackers can't be regulated together with the social media but the their actions can be put to an infinitesimal level. When a website for instance is regulated, hardly will you perceive the website is hacked. Epitome of that is university websites like Unilorin.edu.ng, I have never for once heard of a case of the site hacked. Meaning hackers are usually render ineffective when social media is regulated.

Satisfied?

More Qs...

xynerise:
Tourshaw and Mustybura,
No doubt, freedom of expression via social media has been abused. Don't you think regulating social media will also be abused by the regulators by restricting needed information to the masses, especially corrupt practices from politicians?

As expected Sir. The main purpose of regulating is our focus. It will also carry little demerit points like the one you just mentioned. But is that truly a factor to be considered? Emphatic no! Government has its means of dealing with corrupt practices. Needless to say, EFCC, ICPC, and a host of others who are doing their work diligently and conscientiously. So what is not our businesses. We need not wash our dirty linen outside by using social media to tell the world how our country leaders are corrupt. Do we?

DAVIES27:
@Toursaw...social media has gone a long way helping effective Communications in our country No doubts, but my question is how do we strike a balance between polluting,missusing the social media and making it a source of growth,good morals,conducive platform for decent nigerians?

Good Question. It's glaring that the nemesis social media caused is injurious not only to the citizens but also to Nigeria as a whole. I am not necessarily calling for the halt of social media either. My stand is

It should be regulated in a way that every website uses by the internet users is not adult containing one.

There should be absolute ban of all pornographic websites or it's derivatives

Anyone that threatens national peace by a post should be traced and arrested.

Any topic that can cause religion blasphemy should be disallowed
and a host of others

Hope that answer your question Sir?

I would have loved to engage in intellectual discourse with my fellow undergraduates, Akokites, but it happened this way. However, the reasons one of the rep gave though didn't move me actually. I also stay off campus. 20 minutes trekking to UITH everyday. As if it ends there, I have been bombarded with lots of school activities which at first threatened my participation here but I stand firm on it. For you to know I had a presentation yesterday which is part of my assessment. I also wrote a test this morning and another one is waiting for me on Tuesday. What a busy schedule!!! And my partner too finished his first MBBS exam yesterday either, started on Monday. These are some of hundreds of commitment we are putting at stake in order to have a meaningful participation here too. Well, it is well.

I have not seen questions as much as I expected

Rocktation:
Tourshaw
You have set religious faiths as one standard for which social media should be regulated, not minding that morality goes beyond religion. How d'you suggest a balance be created, to placate the non-religious that are morally up to par?

With due respect Ma, I didn't single out religious perspective as the only institution that frowns solidly at immorality of social media. However, if I understand your question, religion or no religion. What is good is obviously good and what is bad is obviously bad. To bring peace to the religious and non religious ideologies, regulating social media is the way out.
Hopefully, that answer your question Ma?

Distinguished Chairman, distinguished panel of judges, relentless moderators and coordinators of this e-essay competition, potential co-debaters and my rational readers. All protocols are duly observed. I remain Tourshaw, a student in the department of Anatomy, University of Ilorin in my sophomore year representing Unilorin in this debate but before I proceed, let us take an envisage look at some terms in the topic. Social media could be defined as the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration e.g google.com, Facebook.com, twitter.com, goal.com, nairaland.com, YouTube.com etc. While real media are also information contained media characterized by print and sounds e.g radio stations, television stations and newspapers which are usually regulated.

Social media is an avenue that provides its users information without any restrictions. Information which can jeopardize national security can be disseminated through social media. Nigeria has been experiencing torment of insurgency in the northern part and extra judicial killings all over the country. Perpetrators of these menace extract their information from our uncensored social media in order to execute their inhumane plans. If not for anything, social media should also, for the sake of you and I be regulated and censored because sensitive and confidential military information could be vulnerable to these terrorists through social media which will subject our security into deadly and fatal threats.
Plagiarism is another unfortunate consequence of social media. Who said social media is bad? Who said it's not been helpful? In fact, beyond doubt, it has been the major and significant development characterized by the twenty-first century which distinctivel distinguised it from the previous eras. Through this means, useful and meaning information that make learning much seamless is disseminated. However, it's regrettably sad that to witness exorbitant misuse of this century rare endowment by unscrupulous users through plagiarism and piracy. Plagiarism has been and still remain the principal problem associated with uncensored social media. Millions if not billions of naira are lost by victim of this this piracy and plagiarism.

Another heavy problem shouldered by unregulated social media is indiscriminate exposure to adult content. Even though those obscene websites used to boldly write it as 18+ contents, young children of this generation, through the mobile phones are the ones that access the websites the most contrarily. Some bloggers even use this as a strategy to increase traffics on their websites. As if you don't know, there's a wealth of pornographic and seductive contents that are accessed with ease through social media. This has led to the affected children being dissensitised and made them to be curious to have experience of what they should not even have its idea. Surprisingly, young adults are also infiltrerated with the social media by masturbation which is destructive and sinful to health and Faiths respectively. This issue is addressed in countries that regulate social media for instance Turkey who use the strategy of expensive cost of social media to dissuade people from using it which makes average Turkmen see internet as a luxury and twitter is ban in the country. Tunisia also imbibe censorship and regulation of social media; filtering pornographic contents on websites not to infinitesimal but to zero level. These measures employ by these nations have to a reasonable extent sensitize their communities and its related relatives.

Freedom of expression alibi, whenever social media regulation issue surfaces, one of the biggest arguments surrounding it, is freedom of expression. I presume one of my opponents might be nursing the ambition of standing firmly on this freedom of speech. Even if the Nigeria constitution gives room for freedom of expression, does it allow abusive and offensive ones? Does it allow hate campaign? Of course not! Some people use social media to vilify, castigate and stigmatize one another and even the government with hate campaigns, false allegations and others thereby committing felony comparable-offense through their utterances. Syria is a country that censored its social media in that any blogger who expresses any kind of anti government feeling which may jeopardize national unity is arrested. Over 400 000 websites which promote national unrest by topics on social, political and religious issues that do not conform with the doctrines of Islam were blocked by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. All websites are under government agency in North Korea. So if these big countries can, why can't we?

Lastly, accusing finger of viral misinformations could be pointed to as repercussion unregulated social media. I cannot but burst into an uncontrollable and endless laughter whenever I remember the viral misinformations about Ebola virus outbreak in Nigeria which surfaced almost 2 years ago, when a fabricated therapy for cure of the diseases which was drinking and taking bath with hot salt water. And I don't think I need to tell you that once an information gets to social media, it goes viral easily and conveniently just like gas released into the air. Before we knew it, it has circulated the nooks and crannies of the country and people with fear of contacting the virus started drinking and taking bath with hot salt water ignorantly which reportedly led to the deaths of a handful of average Nigerians who were virally misinformed.

In conclusion, if the senate can pass the bill by subjecting social media into strict censorship and regulations then Nigeria will be devoid of online hate campaigns, publicity stunt, exposure to pornography will become a history, war against plagiarism and piracy will be graciously won and Nigeria will be free of insurgency. We should bear in mind that leaving social media uncensored is like a child who is left sheerly untaught, please of what benefit do we expect from such a child?
Thank you.

REFERENCES
1. The Benefits of Social Networki Services, research work by Associate Professor Philippan Collin , University of Western. PDF format
2. http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/social-media
3. http://www.therichten.com/world/top-10-countries-that-censor-the-internet/
4. http://futureofworking.com/11-biggest-pros-and-cons-of-censorship/
5. http://greengarageblog.org/9-primary-pros-and-cons-of-censorship
6. http://listverse.com/2010/10/02/top-10-countries-that-censor-the-internet/
7. http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/weekly/index.php/features/17359-ebola-more-deaths-from-salt-therapy-than-virus

Fynestboi:
So?
But wait...
Didn't you get message? Text message?

Not at all

Fynestboi:
Tourshaw how far?

We are 99.9% ready Sir.

Although, it's true your mentions is not effect which needs to be attended so that participants won't be getting the messages lately.

Fynestboi:
Thought you said you will be around by 8?

Yes Sir

Baba, is this really true? I am also a student at UITH here o in my sophomore year. A girl told me but I couldn't believe it. Well, If this is true, I think it's your fault. We were told during the orientation programme that UITH is unlike permanent site where you dress anyhow. We have been enjoined to always dress cooperate and use ties on the campus to differentiate your from people who come to pay visit to their sick ones. Also, you said noebooks, I know this is a fat lie. We're submitting physiology practical records and handbook not notes. Or do we even have notes? What happened to you was solely your responsibility and don't make it seems as if it's Unilorin that takes the blame.

Fynestboi:
Send your essay to Nairalandinterschooldebate@gmail.com and boom space will post it for you, when you come around by 8pm you will continue from there...

Won't that affect any part of the debate? E.g rebuttals, others

Neyoor:
To yield our reps availability.

Well said my team leader!