Education And Unemployment Rate In Nigeria

Education and unemployment rate in Nigeria 

Education has been described in some quarters as the best legacy.
Through the instrumentality of education, mental faculties of people are shapened and re-oriented.

It enables the society to successfully transfer knowledge and skills from a generation to another. Educational institution are arranged in such a way that students are properly guided through teaching of variety of knowledge and skills, which are in turn used in our day-to-day activities.
No wonder an aphorism goes thus 'No nation can rise above the quality of education its citizens receive'.

An average and futuristic parent is willing to sponsor his/her children or wards up to tertiary Institution with a sole am that; graduate and be Independent.
The word 'being Independent' implies that getting a good job or be self employed after the compulsory one year National Youths Service Corps (NYSC).

Unfortunately, some of the sponsors cum parents end up disappointed because their lofty expectations are not met. Some of these  graduates ended up becoming the shadow of themselves.
It is either they are unemployed or under-employed.

Imagine a University or Polytechnic graduate working as a teacher in a private school with take home of #10,000...  What a pathetic situation!
The sum is not even enough to cater for his/her day-to-day runnings, how on earth will this kind of people make their parents cum sponsors that invested heavily on them happy?

Thereby leading them to social vices, such as prostitution, kidnapping, internet fraudsters, political thugs, just to mention but few.

According to statistic made available by African symposium in 2012, it reported that out of the candidates applying for admission into tertiary institutions  every year in Nigeria, only 5.2 percent to 15.3 percent get admitted.
This implies that, 84.7 percent to 94.8 percent of the candidates seeing admission every year never get admitted into Nigeria Institution, even with the skyrocket number of private tertiary institutions all over Nigeria at the moment.

For the 5.2 percent to 15.3 percent of students that are lucky to have gain admission every year, after spending about four to five years in the institutions and graduated, then join a long queue of their senior ones who have passed out from various Universities, Polytechnics and College of Education that are unemployed.

Most of who can be regarded as SANs....  You are curious to know the meaning?  Chuckles
It means Senior Applicant Of Nigeria...  It is funny? But it is a pathetic situation that we found ourselves.

Some of them are now being duped on daily basis by the fake recruiter pretending to be real.
The story of the last immigration recruitment exercise cannot be forgotten so soon, though they are not fake but asking job seekers to use money to buy form is a criminal act and should be condemned by all.

The decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the shame called recruitment exercise is a right step in right direction and should be commended.

I recommend that all these fake recruiters should be made to face the music, they way they milk the unsuspected job seekers is alarming. If you can solve someone's problem, it is better not to add to it.

The National Bereau of Statistics  recorded that, unemployment rate in Nigeria increased to 23.90 percent in 2011 from 21.10 percent in 2010 which was at the average of 14.60 percent from 2006 until 2011 reaching an all time high of 23.90 percent in 2011 and a record low of 5.30 percent in 2006.
As at this years,  2015 unemployment rate is still at the average of 23.90 percent of the work force of Nigeria i.e the Nigerian youths,  which in turn represents over 38 millions Nigerian! What a very outrageous figure!!

Relating different efforts of the arms of government, ministries,  parastatals, and even Non-Govermental Organisations (NGOs)  through strategizing and implementing different agenda, machinery, legislature and agencies that will help in boosting the economy of the nation, which in turn will reduce the high unemployment rate.

Some references can be made to National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) and the National Directorate of Employment (NDE). They are both created to reduce unemployment rate in Nigeria by introducing unemployed youths self-employment skills through small and medium scale enterprises.
But the fact is that, both has not been able to fight the endermic unemployment virus head on but their impacts are being felt to a level.
The rate of unemployment keeps rising even with the vision 2020 which is now 5 years close.

Government keep emphasizing Enterpreneurship as one of the major ways to reduce unemployment in the country, but the naked fact is that, everyone cannot be self-employed.
Even if you are interested in being self-employed, you will need a capital.

Private companies should be encouraged through provision of stable power supply and their Tax payment should be reviewed. This will in turn encourage them to invest in our country, because we are loosing them to our neighbouring countries such as Ghana.

If the basic amenities and infrastructures are available, they will serve as baits to would-be investors and when these people eventually set up here, it will reduce the unemployment rate and this will in turn reduce social vices.
Because government alone cannot solve the problem of unemployment.

Imagine a  fresh graduate in the field of medicine or  law  who is jobless with no additional still outside his/her field may need a huge capital to start up something that will relate to his/her professional calling.....  Where will this capital fall from?

With this trending challenge in our society of today, it is imperative that when we talk about education, parents and sponsors should shift their mind from the common formal education of (9-3-4) to vocational education.
Thereby sending their children or wards to where they can be trained early in life to learn a handiwork of their interest.

In fact, I will suggest that our government promulgate a law that will make vocational education or studies  compulsory right from primary schools.
Our tertiary institutions and National Youths  Service Corps (NYSC) should be commenced for making vocational education compulsory as a course(ENT)  and Skill Aquisition and Enterpreneurship Development (SAED).

As a youth corper, it is very compulsory that you under a Skill Aquisition Enterpreneurship Development (SAED)  training, this goes a long way in adding values to the free graduates before introducing them to labour market.

It Gives opportunity to corpers to be rebranded.  SAED has standard training centers all over the states of the federation.

But I will urge our government to speedily attend to this problem and i cannot but add that the issue of corruption be tackled as well.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration should be supported to make an head in this regard, majority of Nigerians vote for him because of his antecedent as a crusader of anti-corruption.
Though it has eaten deep into our fabrics but journey of a thousand miles begins with a step.

If you are a jobless graduate, go out there and learn a vocation today...  Nigeria Will Be great. 

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