What with Unemployment?

I took it upon my idle head to look through every pencil I see searching for a made in Nigeria pencil and just like you rightly imagined, I found none! They are all made in China! the more sophisticated ones are made in Germany! Oh! so we import even pencils? just like tooth picks? And we hope to be employed after graduation? Abeg leave that thing, there is still a long, long way to go for the fatherland I'm sorry to say.

I hear alternative and green energy options are growing in popularity in Europe and in the Americas, and they dont have one tenth of the sunshine we experience in this tropical Africa of ours, and this are people whose electric power supply we admire exploring other options to power and here we wait! Sunshine wasting!

Blessed with a rich vegetation, such that every plant you can think of thrives within our region, we still import plant based products! Perfumes, Printing ink, Paper, etc!

The question is; now where would the employment come from? We are greatly endowed with both natural an human resources to sustain our economy, but we burn all at the alter of ignorance and so we suffer lack! Lets use every medium available to encourage government to create enabling environment for people to invest in our manufacturing sector, we need more industries to utilize our resources both Material and Human.

We just came out of an acclaimed transparent elections which means our votes count and so should our voices, request and get phone numbers of your legislators at all levels, talk to them often, and press your points just like you pressed your fingers, insist on your entitlement, we cant rest until we get the crest!

The fight against rampant unemployment must start now!

Eric Akpo
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What the Youths are Saying about NYSC Scheme

"These young people had hopes and dreams for a better life, which have forever been quashed"

"...I think the intentions behind the establishment of the NYSC scheme are honourable. It gives young people the opportunity to see how people from other parts of the country live, to foster a sense of unity and to drive home the fact that even though we speak different languages, have different cultures, eat different food, practise different faiths, we are all one people, bound together by geographical boundaries and our humanity. Indeed, I have met many people from various parts of the country who tell me that they know so and so place in another part of the country, simply because they served there. Most of them remember their service year with nostalgia, recalling how the local community had embraced them and made their stay an interesting one. For most of them, that is the ex
I think the intentions behind the establishment of the NYSC scheme are honourable. It gives young people the opportunity to see how people from other parts of the country live, to foster a sense of unity and to drive home the fact that even though we speak different languages, have different cultures, eat different food, practise different faiths, we are all one people, bound together by geographical boundaries and our humanity. Indeed, I have met many people from various parts of the country who tell me that they know so and so place in another part of the country, simply because they served there. Most of them remember their service year with nostalgia, recalling how the local community had embraced them and made their stay an interesting one. For most of them, that is the extent of their interaction with that part of the country. They may not go back there again for the rest of their lives, but at least they have experienced life from the perspective of the people of the host community.  The insight they have gained will stay with them as they move on to various positions of leadership and will help them to be more open and accepting of their brothers and sisters from all over the country.
tent of their interaction with that part of the country. They may not go back there again for the rest of their lives, but at least they have experienced life from the perspective of the people of the host community.  The insight they have gained will stay with them as they move on to various positions of leadership and will help them to be more open and accepting of their brothers and sisters from all over the country".
 - Akuna Ajim
Source; http://www.thenewsafrica.com/, May 2, 2011

"...Well-spoken, but I'd prefer that NYSC be modified and reformed, I have some ideas; instead of being out rightly scrapped. I believe its benefits far out-weigh the disadvantages.

ut I'd prefer that NYSC be modified and reformed, I have some ideas; instead of being out rightly scrapped. I believe its benefits far out-weigh the disadvantages.

-Nerfetiiti, Port Harcourt

Source; http://www.iwilltalk.com/education/topic393.html

 

Honestly,d Jos incident n other mayham dat involved corp members in recent time is not something one should pray 2 witness at any point, especially when u are at d funeral ceremony of a fellow corp member with words like these at d back of ur mind."dis could ave been anyone". personally i think the government should just allow members 2 serve in their respective zones,like south serves in south,north in d north n vice versa. i think dat'll help a lot.

-Physhayour, Lagos

Source; http://www.iwilltalk.com/education/topic393.html

 

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