Challenge Of Joblessness Among Youths
The unemployment scenario in Nigeria, a nation said to house the biggest economy in Africa, is alarming. 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 much more considerable, thinking about that an out of work and disappointed youth population is a reservoir for instability and the spread of social vices.
In spite of efforts to curb the pattern, unemployment in Nigeria is still spreading out. World Bank approximates that the rate of joblessness is close to 80%. This represents 2/3 of the country’s youth population.
Likewise, an approximated 47.59% to 59.95% of jobless Nigerians are living in the rural areas, half of whom had little or no education at all. The dire joblessness circumstance was graphically depicted in March 2014, when 16 people were killed in stampedes, at the aptitude test location for the Nigerian Migration Service.
Growing unemployment in Nigeria can largely be credited to problems in the curricula of post-primary and tertiary education in the country, which are not tailored towards applied studies that would develop employable graduates. For that reason, trainees in tertiary educational institutions often finish, ill-equipped, into joblessness and low morale.Many Nigerian graduates did not find out pertinent abilities throughout their studies. They were hectic checking out textbooks only to get certificates however without understanding the applications of what they read. Consequently, resulting long years of unemployment
, deprivation, and disappointment is a major reason for criminal offense amongst Nigerian youth since there is absolutely nothing else to inhabit their time or provide a means of income.Each year, thousands of trainees finish from universities throughout Nigeria, but lots of fail to discover a task, and some will end up looking for wrong means of supporting themselves, including prostitution, drugs and human trafficking, heist, and advanced cost fraud(419). On the way forward, motivating students to learn pertinent skills throughout their school years will assist in
resolving Nigeria’s joblessness issue. Therefore, the introduction of entrepreneurial abilities topics and courses into the secondary school curricula and the university system by the federal government is extremely commendable. It would likewise be suggested, that governments at all levels, and the private sector, must sign up with hands and develop organizations for
the acquisition of vocational abilities 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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