I would have loved to place the entire blame of this humongous level of unemployment in Nigeria on bad leadership, but the youth of this country are accomplices to the ills that have befallen them. Others who do not have the patience or skillset to indulge in cybercrimes have taken up kidnapping and petty theft as means of survival.
Youths who are to make a lasting impact in the I.T sector have taken to cybercrime (yahoo-yahoo) just to survive. Little wonder we are witnessing an unprecedented surge in crime, banditry, kidnapping and terrorism in the country. We are also talking about youths, the acclaimed future leaders of tomorrow without jobs or any means of livelihood. When we talk about unemployment, we are directly talking about youth restiveness in the country. If we add both, only the population of two countries in Africa-Ethiopia with a population of 114,963,588 and Egypt with a total population of 102,334,404-would be more than the total number of unemployed and underemployed people in Nigeria. We are not talking about those who are underemployed here, just the unemployed ones. Somalia and Namibia have a population of 15,893,222 and 2,540,908 respectively.
Our close neighbour, Chad, has a total population of 16,743,927. No, that’s not a joke! Burkina Faso has a total population of 20,903,273 Mali has a population of 20,250,833 Malawi has a population of 19,129,952 and Zambia has a population of 18,383,955. In layman’s terms, it simply means that we have more unemployed people in Nigeria than the entire population of some African countries.
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