Challenge Of Unemployment Amongst Youths
The unemployment circumstance in Nigeria, a nation stated to house the biggest economy in Africa, is alarming. With a population estimated at 167 million, 50% of whom are youth, aged in between 15 and 34 years, the concern of unemployment becomes even more substantial, thinking about that an unemployed and frustrated youth population is a tank for instability and the spread of social vices.
In spite of efforts to curb the trend, joblessness in Nigeria is still spreading out. World Bank approximates that the rate of joblessness is close to 80%. This represents 2/3 of the nation’s youth population.
Likewise, an estimated 47.59% to 59.95% of jobless Nigerians are residing in the rural areas, half of whom had little or no education at all. The alarming joblessness situation was graphically portrayed in March 2014, when 16 individuals were killed in stampedes, at the aptitude test place for the Nigerian Immigration Service.
Growing joblessness in Nigeria can mainly be credited to defects in the curricula of post-primary and tertiary education in the country, which are not tailored toward applied studies that would create employable graduates. Therefore, trainees in tertiary educational institutions typically finish, ill-equipped, into joblessness and low morale.Many Nigerian graduates did not learn appropriate abilities during their studies. They were hectic checking out books just to get certificates however without knowing the applications of what they check out. Subsequently, resulting long years of unemployment
, deprivation, and aggravation is a significant reason for criminal offense amongst Nigerian youth due to the fact that there is nothing else to inhabit their time or offer a method of income.Each year, countless trainees finish from universities across Nigeria, but many stop working to discover a task, and some will end up looking for unethical means of supporting themselves, consisting of prostitution, drugs and human trafficking, heist, and advanced cost scams(419). On the way forward, encouraging trainees to learn pertinent skills throughout their school years will aid in
resolving Nigeria’s unemployment issue. Thus, the intro of entrepreneurial skills topics and courses into the secondary school curricula and the university system by the federal government is extremely commendable. It would also be suggested, that governments at all levels, and the economic sector, ought to sign up with hands and establish organizations for
the acquisition of occupation skills by the country’s youth.Written by Namah Naomi Kanti(200L International Relations student of Landmark University, Omu-Aran) Send News/Articles for publication on CampusPortal Nigeria through the
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