COVID-19 HAS PROVED THAT NIGERIAN GRADUATES ARE HIGHLY EMPLOYABLE

Since the outbreak of the novel corona virus in Nigeria, it has been difficult for Nigerian government and elites to live the way used to. Previously, it is medical tourism to the UK or India. They detest the public health sector, while some even travel out of the country to treat common cold, malaria and many other sicknesses.


The major reason is that they do not believe in the quality of professionals in our institutions. Government prefer to waste money on frivolities instead of developing our institutions and infrastructures.


Presently, the stone the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone as the Nigerian health sector workers have become the major warriors in the covid-19 battle. They have exercised neither fear nor excuses.


The government has no substitute to the doctors, nurses, pharmacists, lab scientist, etc, they have always vilified. Almost all these professionals were trained in Nigeria and they are doing their best.


Imagine a situation where Nigerian airports were not closed and the developed nations have no case of corona virus, elites and people in government would have fled Nigeria for safety. We would have been left for spiritual and traditional healing homes.


The way they destroyed the public health sector is the way they destroyed the four petroleum refineries and refuse to build new ones, prevent power but gave us darkness and generators, destroyed Ajaokuta and Delta Steel Companies, our agricultural practice when we used to export cocoa, groundnuts and palm oil and they blame the youth for unemployment .


Once again, covid -19 has told us to look inwards, invest in human capacity development, build reputable institutions as we have no other home.

I will keep saying that Nigerian graduates are highly employable.

Nigerian graduates are highly employable; government and employers are liars.


It is so pathetic to hear the government, employers and human resource personnels make statement that “the reason for high rate of unemployment among Nigerian graduates is that they are highly unemployable”.


To debunk their lies, one need to ask where are the job vacancies which exist that cannot be filled by either fresh or experienced Nigerian graduates? If Nigerian graduates are unemployable, where did we get the employees of banks, judiciary, military, education, sports and the medical field? Are they all foreign trained or expatriates? Moreover, the local content act has given so much opportunities for Nigerian engineers to take up positions and projects in the oil and gas industry as well as other aspects of engineering.


They make so much noise as if there are millions of job opportunities lying fallow, waiting for expatriates or the next generation of graduates to fill as a result of the claim of their unemployability of this generation of Nigerian graduates.


Nowadays, employers only equate employability to having an extremely beautiful resume, proficiency in English language and the ability to have excellent scores in their interview questions. Anyone who falls below these criteria is considered unemployable and misfit even though the recruiters have extremely few job vacancies. These were not the criteria in the 60’s and 70’s when there were abundant job opportunities in Nigeria. Developed nations look beyond these attributes by providing on- the-job training, technology and business hubs as well as mentorship programs for their graduates.


Some graduates are termed unemployable because they cannot make correct sentences in English language. However, basic English language is taught at the primary and secondary schools and not at the tertiary institutions, as this is what most recruiters misunderstand. Employers should stop making mountains out of moles of the mass unemployment in Nigeria. The fact that there are few graduates who perform poorly at job interviews does not mean we do not have thousands of qualified candidates who perform excellently in them.


It is a pity that the liars have never for once said that Nigerian graduates are not good as political touts. During electioneering campaigns, politicians recruit both graduates and non graduates as ad-hoc touts to desperately pursue their political ambitions. However, graduates of developed nations are properly positioned to create jobs while children of politicians have juicy appointments waiting for them even before the graduate.


The government keeps shifting the blame of mass unemployment on the graduates because the government lacks job creation ideas as well as the ability to produce job creating graduates. Nigeria spends less than ten percent of her budget on education yet they want magic like countries that spend more than the twenty-six percent UNESCO standard. There are nations with high quality of education in which some of their tertiary institution drop-outs have created jobs that have grown to multinational companies.


Science and engineering graduates are the worst hit by the meagre spending on education because they are extremely good at the theoretical aspect of their jobs but lack the requisite practical knowledge because our campuses are blessed with virtually obsolete and empty laboratories and workshops. If these same set of people were to graduate from universities of developed nations, they would excel in all aspects their studies, become gainfully employed and even create jobs in foreign lands. The question to ask is, do we blame either the graduates or the government for the virtually empty and obsolete laboratories and workshops we have in Nigeria higher institutions?


Successive administrations in Nigeria have wasted several opportunities to create abundant jobs for her graduates. For example, Ajaokuta Steel Complex and the Delta Steel Complex are two projects that can provide more than three million direct and indirect jobs. Nations like India, South Korea and Iran that started similar projects alongside Nigeria have surpassed their installed capacities, and had established more plants.


Several resource poor countries have provided abundant job opportunities and become industrialised by importing raw materials such as agricultural produce, crude oil, iron ore and other solid minerals from resource rich nations like Nigeria. They set up factories, process the raw materials, add value and sell to prodigal nations like Nigeria. Hence, they make profits of ten to hundred folds compared to nations that sold the raw materials.


So much jobs would have been created if the right policies had been made. Millions of jobs were created in the telecommunication sector in 2001 by former president Obasanjo as a result of the right policy that was made. For example, the four ailing refineries have a combined processing capacity of 450,000 barrels per day if working at optimum capacity, while we produce 2,000,000 bpd of crude oil. Even at optimum capacity, our refineries cannot refine more than a quarter of the crude oil produced. If the right policy is in place, Nigeria has thousands of jobs to be created in crude oil refining and other aspects of the oil and gas industry alone.


When the government blames the graduates for mass unemployment, should the graduates then tell the government that they are not fit to govern because of poverty, insecurity, hunger and other anomalies in the land? Should graduates tell our leaders to step aside for leaders in the developed nations to govern us? The government should be aware that it is this set of people that are flying the flag of Nigeria in entertainment, arts, fashion, e-commerce, software development and sports with little or no assistance from the government.


Finally, a stitch in time saves more than nine, having it in mind that Nigeria’s population is expected to hit 400million people by year 2050. Abundant job opportunities can be easily created in all sectors of the economy if the right steps are taken.


oneolajire2000@yahoo.co.uk
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When our government has decided not to value it's manpower but depend on China and the rest of the world .let China save Nigeria now .

Odinvahala:
When our government has decided not to value it's manpower but depend on China and the rest of the world .let China save Nigeria now .

They only use Nigerians for election purposes as well as collection of allocations from the federation account.

You dey mind them.....the unemployable graduate always go out of the country and secure juicy jobs.

pure truth! we're only recognized when it's campaign/ election time and to occupy space as Nigerians but no reasonable benefits from the government or good social welfare for the citizens. I really wish to leave this country biko I need help call me 09073850700

TheGoodJoe:
Sowore campaigned repeatedly for the end of Medical tourism by government officials. If Nigerians joined him in the struggle, we would not need Covid-19 to show the above.

. It is difficult for people to join Sowore in his campaign because Buhari has been brutal against opposition by using security agencies. People have businesses to operate and are not ready to sacrifice.

femi4:
You dey mind them.....the unemployable graduate always go out of the country and secure juicy jobs.

. One major problem we have in Nigeria is that our government lacks job creation strategies. Our politicians only believe in making wealth at the expense of the masses

Our leaders acquired several certificates both at home and abroad, and still behave like illitrates.Imagine they went to China and brought less qualified medical personnels to come and help us treat corona virus. They usually bring technicians from abroad to come and supervise construction projects. Educated illitrates.

charlly2016:
Our leaders acquired several certificates both at home and abroad, and still behave like illitrates.Imagine they went to China and brought less qualified medical personnels to come and help us treat corona virus. They usually bring technicians from abroad to come and supervise construction projects. Educated illitrates.

. Our leaders have no faith in the nation they lead. That is why they killed public universities, hospitals and government companies and that is why they are poor at human capacity development

eworker:
Am glad to know this

, great

As we lay our bed, so we lie on it. Our professionals now have no substitute

this is superb, this is the kind of article we need on nairaland frontpage, I pray it gets there soon

oneolajire:





Nigerian graduates are highly employable; government and employers are liars.


It is so pathetic to hear the government, employers and human resource personnels make statement that “the reason for high rate of unemployment among Nigerian graduates is that they are highly unemployable”.


To debunk their lies, one need to ask where are the job vacancies which exist that cannot be filled by either fresh or experienced Nigerian graduates? If Nigerian graduates are unemployable, where did we get the employees of banks, judiciary, military, education, sports and the medical field? Are they all foreign trained or expatriates? Moreover, the local content act has given so much opportunities for Nigerian engineers to take up positions and projects in the oil and gas industry as well as other aspects of engineering.


They make so much noise as if there are millions of job opportunities lying fallow, waiting for expatriates or the next generation of graduates to fill as a result of the claim of their unemployability of this generation of Nigerian graduates.


Nowadays, employers only equate employability to having an extremely beautiful resume, proficiency in English language and the ability to have excellent scores in their interview questions. Anyone who falls below these criteria is considered unemployable and misfit even though the recruiters have extremely few job vacancies. These were not the criteria in the 60’s and 70’s when there were abundant job opportunities in Nigeria. Developed nations look beyond these attributes by providing on- the-job training, technology and business hubs as well as mentorship programs for their graduates.


Some graduates are termed unemployable because they cannot make correct sentences in English language. However, basic English language is taught at the primary and secondary schools and not at the tertiary institutions, as this is what most recruiters misunderstand. Employers should stop making mountains out of moles of the mass unemployment in Nigeria. The fact that there are few graduates who perform poorly at job interviews does not mean we do not have thousands of qualified candidates who perform excellently in them.


It is a pity that the liars have never for once said that Nigerian graduates are not good as political touts. During electioneering campaigns, politicians recruit both graduates and non graduates as ad-hoc touts to desperately pursue their political ambitions. However, graduates of developed nations are properly positioned to create jobs while children of politicians have juicy appointments waiting for them even before the graduate.


The government keeps shifting the blame of mass unemployment on the graduates because the government lacks job creation ideas as well as the ability to produce job creating graduates. Nigeria spends less than ten percent of her budget on education yet they want magic like countries that spend more than the twenty-six percent UNESCO standard. There are nations with high quality of education in which some of their tertiary institution drop-outs have created jobs that have grown to multinational companies.


Science and engineering graduates are the worst hit by the meagre spending on education because they are extremely good at the theoretical aspect of their jobs but lack the requisite practical knowledge because our campuses are blessed with virtually obsolete and empty laboratories and workshops. If these same set of people were to graduate from universities of developed nations, they would excel in all aspects their studies, become gainfully employed and even create jobs in foreign lands. The question to ask is, do we blame either the graduates or the government for the virtually empty and obsolete laboratories and workshops we have in Nigeria higher institutions?


Successive administrations in Nigeria have wasted several opportunities to create abundant jobs for her graduates. For example, Ajaokuta Steel Complex and the Delta Steel Complex are two projects that can provide more than three million direct and indirect jobs. Nations like India, South Korea and Iran that started similar projects alongside Nigeria have surpassed their installed capacities, and had established more plants.


Several resource poor countries have provided abundant job opportunities and become industrialised by importing raw materials such as agricultural produce, crude oil, iron ore and other solid minerals from resource rich nations like Nigeria. They set up factories, process the raw materials, add value and sell to prodigal nations like Nigeria. Hence, they make profits of ten to hundred folds compared to nations that sold the raw materials.


So much jobs would have been created if the right policies had been made. Millions of jobs were created in the telecommunication sector in 2001 by former president Obasanjo as a result of the right policy that was made. For example, the four ailing refineries have a combined processing capacity of 450,000 barrels per day if working at optimum capacity, while we produce 2,000,000 bpd of crude oil. Even at optimum capacity, our refineries cannot refine more than a quarter of the crude oil produced. If the right policy is in place, Nigeria has thousands of jobs to be created in crude oil refining and other aspects of the oil and gas industry alone.


When the government blames the graduates for mass unemployment, should the graduates then tell the government that they are not fit to govern because of poverty, insecurity, hunger and other anomalies in the land? Should graduates tell our leaders to step aside for leaders in the developed nations to govern us? The government should be aware that it is this set of people that are flying the flag of Nigeria in entertainment, arts, fashion, e-commerce, software development and sports with little or no assistance from the government.


Finally, a stitch in time saves more than nine, having it in mind that Nigeria’s population is expected to hit 400million people by year 2050. Abundant job opportunities can be easily created in all sectors of the economy if the right steps are taken.


oneolajire2000@yahoo.co.uk

. This is a 2 in1 article

solutionsnow:
. This is a 2 in1 article

. Yea, you got it

solutionsnow:
. This is a 2 in1 article

. Covid proved the second article right

You are so on point.

Welcomme:
You are so on point.

thanks. hope u read the FTC post written by me

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This article is top notch.

Nigerian politicians will never like to read article like this laye.


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Plut01:
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This article is top notch.

Nigerian politicians will never like to read article like this laye.


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. The only thing the politicians know is to loot and underdevelop our nation, then blame the youth for their inability to get gainful employment

oneolajire:
COVID-19 HAS PROVED THAT NIGERIAN GRADUATES ARE HIGHLY EMPLOYABLE

Since the outbreak of the novel corona virus in Nigeria, it has been difficult for Nigerian government and elites to live the way used to. Previously, it is medical tourism to the UK or India. They detest the public health sector, while some even travel out of the country to treat common cold, malaria and many other sicknesses.


The major reason is that they do not believe in the quality of professionals in our institutions. Government prefer to waste money on frivolities instead of developing our institutions and infrastructures.


Presently, the stone the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone as the Nigerian health sector workers have become the major warriors in the covid-19 battle. They have exercised neither fear nor excuses.


The government has no substitute to the doctors, nurses, pharmacists, lab scientist, etc, they have always vilified. Almost all these professionals were trained in Nigeria and they are doing their best.


Imagine a situation where Nigerian airports were not closed and the developed nations have no case of corona virus, elites and people in government would have fled Nigeria for safety. We would have been left for spiritual and traditional healing homes.


The way they destroyed the public health sector is the way they destroyed the four petroleum refineries and refuse to build new ones, prevent power but gave us darkness and generators, destroyed Ajaokuta and Delta Steel Companies, our agricultural practice when we used to export cocoa, groundnuts and palm oil and they blame the youth for unemployment .


Once again, covid -19 has told us to look inwards, invest in human capacity development, build reputable institutions as we have no other home.

I will keep saying that Nigerian graduates are highly employable.

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cc: Seun, lalastica, davide470, uboma this is a front-page material.

The Nigerian government has not lived up to expectation in anyway...

They claim Nigerian graduates are unemployable to fill up spaces in the industries and establishments but fail to mention that even the training courses their agencies in the oil and gas industry offer come with exorbitant charges like NOGIC that will expect an unemployed graduate to pay #150,000 and so for oil and gas training...

African leaders are inspired by self acclimitization and greed that is why they see nothing wrong in their failure to engage in creating jobs since they seize funds meant for such venture and channel them to their coffers and loot store.

The shabby way they paint the falsehood pertaining to the unemployability of Nigerian graduates is laughable in that our leaders have vehemently refused to fund our industries for their revival for those that existed before such as Ajaokuta steel company, Nation's refineries etc.

These establishments are still in bad shape and even the government ministries, agencies & corporations are seemingly non existent due to their very low level of productivity and the coinage of an industrial revolution blueprint that will turn around our collective fortunes for good is lacking...

The Nigerian leaders and their African counterparts will rather say NO to all these owing to the fact that their values are not in any of such but they will rather choose to abandon the citizenry and keep looting while paying lip service in exchange for this dastardly act unjustly meted out to the same citizenry.

It's pathetic!

Chematrix:
The Nigerian government has not lived up to expectation in anyway...

They claim Nigerian graduates are unemployable to fill up spaces in the industries and establishments but fail to mention that even the training courses their agencies in the oil and gas industry offer come with exorbitant charges like NOGIC that will expect an unemployed graduate to pay #150,000 and so for oil and gas training...

African leaders are inspired by self acclimitization and greed that is why they see nothing wrong in their failure to engage in creating jobs since they seize funds meant for such venture and channel them to their coffers and loot store.

The shabby way they paint the falsehood pertaining to the unemployability of Nigerian graduates is laughable in that our leaders have vehemently refused to fund our industries for their revival for those that existed before such as Ajaokuta steel company, Nation's refineries etc.

These establishments are still in bad shape and even the government ministries, agencies & corporations are seemingly non existent due to their very low level of productivity and the coinage of an industrial revolution blueprint that will turn around our collective fortunes for good is lacking...

The Nigerian leaders and their African counterparts will rather say NO to all these owing to the fact that their values are not in any of such but they will rather choose to abandon the citizenry and keep looting while paying lip service in exchange for this dastardly act unjustly meted out to the same citizenry.

It's pathetic!

. Our leaders are prodigal comedians. The joke with life and destinies of the followers, they mismanage human, natural and financial resources then blame the followers for their failures

oneolajire:
. Our leaders are prodigal comedians. The joke with life and destinies of the followers, they mismanage human, natural and financial resources then blame the followers for their failures

Very very true...
It's saddening ...

Chematrix:
Very very true... It's saddening ...

. Really true

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By the time covid is done with Nigeria, most Nigerian graduates should be employed. At least the ones who keep developing themselves.
Ask me how.
Most who are laid off their jobs may not necessarily get them back. Open recruitment favour younger and qualified guys. Trust me a lot of people know they are not qualified for that position they occupy. The truth is no one i repeat, no ONE let go of anything or anyone of value and virtue.

Again, the politicians who got the lost job may no longer be in power. If the new power mongers don't get it, such organisation go for quality since they are worst hit by covid 19.

Lastly, Ajaokuta steel is warming up as well as many federal projects that were affected by sentiment, greed and foreign politics.

My advice- are you a graduate, get ICAN if you are in finance, get NEBOSH if you're an engineer and as it applies to other field.

A JOB WAVE IS COMING. Do not leave yourself on the shelf.

hothuntee:
By the time covid is done with Nigeria, most Nigerian graduates should be employed. At least the ones who keep developing themselves.
Ask me how.
Most who are laid off their jobs may not necessarily get them back. Open recruitment favour younger and qualified guys. Trust me a lot of people know they are not qualified for that position they occupy. The truth is no one i repeat, no ONE let go of anything or anyone of value and virtue.

Again, the politicians who got the lost job may no longer be in power. If the new power mongers don't get it, such organisation go for quality since they are worst hit by covid 19.

Lastly, Ajaokuta steel is warming up as well as many federal projects that were affected by sentiment, greed and foreign politics.

My advice- are you a graduate, get ICAN if you are in finance, get NEBOSH if you're an engineer and as it applies to other field.

A JOB WAVE IS COMING. Do not leave yourself on the shelf.

. let us believe the job comes fast because Nigerians have waited too long, in a country where the government claims he feeds school children while the nation is on lockdown. I pray the builders of Ajaokuta steel complex take it over soonest as that seems to be the only solution to revive that dead company