Without mincing words unemployment in Nigeria an offshoot of bad governance. But the core factors lies in absence of indegenous technology to run our manufacturing sector.
We dont train our children for this in our various institutions both formal and vocational.
I have worked with many artisians and techies in Nigeria to know this.
We play down researches in this country a lot. Let's ask whoever is reading this. Have you heard of FIIRO before. How many enlightened Nigerians are aware of this to be Govt department as well as many others let alone what their activities are.
We run a manufacturing sector on other people's brain and we want to develop.
I challenge you to check a website called Aliexpress.com. This is a Chinesse website advertising products from more than 40k manufacturing concern in China alone. So why wont they flood this country with thier products. Why wont dollar ride on Naira when we over depend on importation. Check that your room and take inventory of the products around you. Its true we need power but even after the power improves do we have the know-how of what to do with it?
As a matter of National priority every one should go and obtain technical education. Starting from creche to highest institution. Thats what can save this Nation.
I dont know how much of prayer will give capacity in sofware dev, circuit board dev. etc if we ourself are not willing to develop capacity in these areas. Also I dont know how we are going to develop without mastering this crucial technologies. Analyse the jobs in our job market you see they are mostly admin work that you need little or no training to master. Where those jobs will take us I dont know in the track of development. Development is a choice and not an automatic destiny as many of us believe.

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