A Suggestion that All Unemployed Graduates in Nigeria to Earn N19,800 k Monthly Allowance.

It is deemed that it can only fall through if it’s accepted by the Federal Government. A committee at the on-going National Conference ...

It is deemed that it can only fall through if it’s accepted by the Federal Government.

A committee at the on-going National Conference is suggesting…for all unemployed graduates in Nigeria to earn a monthly allowance equivalent to the allowance of members of the National Youth Service Corps, which is N.19,800.

Punch reports that the conference’s Committee on Law, Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Reform made the recommendation but it can only fall through if it’s accepted by the Federal Government.

A member of the committee said the recommendation was one of the ways the committee members felt that crime could be reduced in the country. He told Punch;

“The recommendation is our own way of finding solutions to the rising wave of crime in the country and to also force the government to do the needful for the increasing number of unemployed graduates in the country. We have done our part and it is left for the delegates to either reject or accept it at plenary.”

To make the issue clear the Vice Chancellor of the Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti, Prof. Sidi Osho, said unemployment will continue to ravage the country until students are taught to be self-reliant.

The VC said this in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday at a press conference heralding the third Founder’s Week of the university.

Osho regretted that thousands of graduates without adequate technical skills were produced by various higher institutions in the country every year.

She, however, said entrepreneurial skills should be inculcated in students to prepare them for the challenges ahead.

Osho said, “Entrepreneurial studies should be introduced to students irrespective of their disciplines. That is why we at ABUAD are teaching our students Entrepreneurial Studies. We want them to be relevant anywhere they find themselves later in life. This is needed to fight unemployment and poverty in the country.

“They are taught business management, one indigenous language, French we have also introduced Chinese Language and our students are enjoying it.”

The VC added that the university had acquired additional 1,000 hectares of land to its farmland. She stated that the university had 10,000 stands of mangoes.

Source: Royal Times