The Director General of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN, Dr Umaru Radda has said that lack of skills and entrepreneurial competence were some of the reasons Nigerian graduates were unemployable.
The DG stated this in Amawbia, near Awka, Anambra State capital during the opening ceremony of the sensitisation on the young business owners in Nigeria programme held on Thursday.
He said as a result of these, only one out of every 100 Nigerian graduates is employable.
He said it was towards addressing this challenge that the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria had initiated the Young Business Owner in Nigeria.
The DG who was represented by the director, policy, advocacy and coordination in the agency, Mr Monday Ewans, said the population of young people between the ages of 15 and 24 was rapidly on the increase, adding that the vast majority of them lived in the poor and emerging economies.
Part of the address presented on behalf of the DG read, ,”There is no doubt that the unemployment situation in Nigeria has reached a crisis level. Statistics have shown that only one out of every 100 graduates is assured of getting a job in Nigeria.
“One of the major causes of unemployment is skill shortages occasioned by dearth of skilled personnel and entrepreneurial competence, inadequate capacity of vocational skill centres and the non-orientation of the educational system to the production of vocational skills that are aligned to industry requirements.
“The Young Business Owners in Nigeria is designed to provide a platform where existing entrepreneurs either as standalone or cooperatives will be competitively selected for further supports. The support package is aimed at reducing some of the fundamental challenges that usually confront MSMEs.
“Essentially, the target beneficiaries are young people between the ages of 20 – 45 years. The focus on this target is because of the need to create new opportunities for employment and enterprises growth which are usually not easily realizable in start-ups.
“The selection criteria will be determined by the technical capacities of the promoters, available raw materials, markets, available skills, access to appropriate technologies, etc.
“The outcome of the needs assessment will form the basis for the design and delivery of the entrepreneurship training in each zone/state.

source:https://royalsgist.com/2017/11/23/nigerian-youths-not-employable-dg-smedan/

The youths are not employable because the educational system has failed.

God. Koboko fall on those who contribute to the deterioration of the education sector and take their children abroad to study

Yet children of malus them just wait in their houses while employment letters find their way to them in the DSS,EFCC,FIRS,NIS and other choice government establishments.
Mains is a criminal fugitive but he is still on government salary today according to his lawyer.May it never be well with all of una in this useless government.

So cus of lack of skills, youths are not employable.
Where is the said platform for youths to even show what they can offer?
All this made people wannabes be talking anyhow.
9ja youths are one of the creative and innovative youths we have around.
Where are the platform to showcase these skills??
Make this man nor make person vex this evening oh.

This is an irresponsible talk from a public servant that has lost touch of reality on ground.

Let it be known that the youth have been making Nigeria proud from sport to music and entertainment to academics even innovations and entrepreneurship the youth are making progress, but the main obstacle t their success is failure of governance by the same old generation who failed to provide basic infrastructure that is required for entrepreneurship development

No sir. it is because nothing is working in Nigeria. E.g there is no stable power supply in Nigeria.

This sounds Familiar.
Where did I hear that before?
But Nigerian Youths, When this narratives becomes one too many, does it truly mean you are unemployable?
Pls Proof to your critics that you are employable.

Which skill does Buhari have? Or osibanjo? Or all those politicians children working at CBN.

Abeg my dear youths,ignore this fool.