Apart from the joy and social applauses of having a university graduate in the family, one of the things that unconsciously spurred parents who saw their children through the university walls, is the hope of reaping enormous benefits off the children when they eventually get good jobs after graduation. That’s basically the ideal expectations from every well-meaning parent.

But in real case scenarios, it is observed that getting a job or being engaged through entrepreneurship is not as easy as anticipated. The bitter truth is that, most graduates remain unemployed and unemployable years after graduating from the university. Below are eleven reasons why Nigerian graduates remain unemployable:

1. Poor Educational Curriculum
It’s no longer headline that the Nigeria education curriculum is a pig in a “pool”. It tends to further pollute not just the messed up educational system, but also pollutes the hope of achieving an academically and technologically advanced society. My heart was broken beyond repair in 2014 when my lecturer had the guts to lecture us on a three credit unit course using the same lecture note I believe he used as far back as the year 2001. The topic was “How To Dial A Telephone.” It got me thinking. Why should we be coerced unto learning how to dial a telephone, whereas, Nigeria as a nation has gone far beyond the usage of the kinds of Nokia 3310 and BlackBerry QWERTY phones. Even the Android touchscreen phones that are in vogue are at the verge of extinction due to the gradual introduction of Hologram technology. But our sweet Nigerian education curriculum and bunch of professors are still teaching her potential engineers on how to “dial” a telephone. Is there any job that such a knowledge can afford us?

2. Waste of Industrial Training (I.T.)days
The only green leaf most of us ever had in school was our 6 months compulsory I.T program. It afforded us the opportunity of learning things that our lecturers never taught us. It is a rare chance for the categorized students to apply the little truth they gathered in the classroom and also realise how much years they’ve wasted in the classroom using outdated curriculum. For those that are wise, they go back to campus with transformed minds towards their academic pursuit.

They learn real life applications of their courses and thereafter continue their personal trainings in those areas. But on the average, most students waste this opportunity. They see it as an avenue to gather enough money in order to live large in the next session as final year students. With that mentality, they end up not benefiting academically and practically from their only chance of reality escapade in school. Such students may struggle to fit into the labour force after graduation.

3. One Year NYSC Program Without Plans
The woes continue in the one year mandatory NYSC program. I’ll forgive Nigerian for sending us into primary schools to teach for a year, but I won’t forgive the graduates who do so without a proper plan for their lives. That one year service is an avenue for self discovery for those who still don’t have headways.

It is also a portal through which people can attain levels of personal developments, cook up strange business ideas and life hacks while they patiently await their full absorption into the labour market. Against the ideal, studies have shown that a majority of corps members see it as a mere postgraduate extracurricular activity.

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