The Dangerous Mainstream Of Job Hunting In Nigeria After Graduation

Education is highly important in Nigeria parents view it as highest responsibility they can be of their children, but has seriously been undermined in recent times with the closure of public universities and a good number of the university students in Nigeria are at home due to current strike ongoing with deadlock in agreement between the federal government and the union body, ASUU. Graduation is totally a different phase in Nigeria, after the university education with hope of exploits in the labour market, it regrettable and unfortunate that Nigeria labour market has little or nothing to offer these young graduates coming out to apply the knowledge they have gained throughout the process of preparing for the competitive market, and it has become the mainstream ringing in Nigeria undergraduates’ ears that there is no job in the country.

It has become serious plagues in the country, driving young people to the path where they are going to be destructive to the society rather than making significant impact in the development of human enterprise. Graduation comes with smiles especially when the hard work of long years was appreciated, but you cannot strictly say the same thing for Nigeria graduands who have no person in the government to put them on good salary or someone desperate enough to compromise the ethics just to occupy certain position. The future is unclear, there is no guarantee channel to provide enabling market and the system feeds, and is notorious for unemployment, favouritism and corruption.

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It is going to be long journey to establish yourself if you are going to live off government provided employments, it is totally a different thing it has become a warning sign that after graduation the system has nothing to offer, the ideal thing for young entrepreneurs is for provision of social amenities and enabling environment for them to be able to strive with their businesses, but at the least the government has failed to live up to their promise which has put the whole system in quagmire and it is not good for young labourers in the market, Nigeria is in a thin line between getting it right or never, with a chance for reset and rebuild.

For graduands in Nigeria, it comes with fear of the unknown, in a society where wealth is the measure of the worth of a man, it sets a particular standard in the society where, such financial attainment is unable to achieved it forces desperation out of the young people and they become the monsters the system made. Graduation in Nigeria comes with two plans, where the first plan is abortive, then the second plan should be fruitful, and most often the second plan is nothing to write home about. It is counting steps for graduands in Nigeria, there are on a different league with their counterparts in Western world, where there is buzzing of smile with deep hope of El dorado after graduation with the glimmer chance of establishing professionally.