Challenge Of Unemployment Among Youths
The unemployment situation in Nigeria, a nation said to house the largest economy in Africa, is disconcerting. With a population approximated at 167 million, 50% of whom are youth, aged in between 15 and 34 years, the question of joblessness ends up being even more significant, considering that an out of work and annoyed youth population is a reservoir for instability and the spread of social vices.
In spite of efforts to suppress the trend, joblessness in Nigeria is still spreading out. World Bank estimates that the rate of unemployment is close to 80%. This represents 2/3 of the nation’s youth population.
Also, an estimated 47.59% to 59.95% of jobless Nigerians are living in the backwoods, half of whom had little or no education at all. The alarming unemployment scenario was graphically portrayed in March 2014, when 16 people were killed in stampedes, at the ability test venue for the Nigerian Immigration Service.
Growing unemployment in Nigeria can mostly be credited to flaws in the curricula of post-primary and tertiary education in the nation, which are not tailored toward applied research studies that would develop employable graduates. Therefore, students in tertiary educational institutions often graduate, ill-equipped, into joblessness and low morale.Many Nigerian graduates did not learn relevant skills during their studies. They were hectic checking out books just to get certificates however without knowing the applications of what they read. As a result, resulting long years of joblessness
, deprivation, and aggravation is a major cause of crime amongst Nigerian youth due to the fact that there is nothing else to inhabit their time or supply a method of income.Each year, countless trainees finish from universities throughout Nigeria, however numerous fail to discover a task, and some will end up looking for wrong means of supporting themselves, including prostitution, drugs and human trafficking, armed robbery, and advanced charge scams(419). En route forward, motivating students to find out relevant skills during their academic year will assist in
solving Nigeria’s unemployment issue. Hence, the intro of entrepreneurial skills subjects and courses into the secondary school curricula and the university system by the government is extremely commendable. It would also be recommended, that governments at all levels, and the private sector, must join hands and establish organizations for
the acquisition of professional skills by the nation’s youth.Written by Namah Naomi Kanti(200L International Relations trainee of Landmark University, Omu-Aran) Send News/Articles for publication on CampusPortal Nigeria through the
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