One of the epidemic problem faced by most Nigerian youths today is unemployment.
Unemployment have been a disease inflicting a great percentage of the Nigerian youths since when? Independence?
Nigeria is ‘blessed’ with 37 federal,52 state and 79 private universities and at the end of every academic year,each of these universities produce agile and able-bodied youths who out of many are in the labour market to put what they have learnt to serve their mother land and in return, get their daily bread.
But what is the fate of these ladies and gentlemen when the labour market rejects them?
Few months back,kidnappers inflicted our roads and preyed on road users like never before. Of course, the issue of kidnapping is not news especially to Nigerians but the incessant occurrence of this nightmare in the recent times is quite alarming and captivating.
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Today, travellers travel with their hearts in their mouth due to fear and apprehension instilled by the doom spellers. It has been recorded that travellers although being the recent victims are not the only preys these predators feast on, they go to the length of breaking into people’s houses to carry our their despicable acts leaving everywhere unsafe. Even the country’s dignitaries are not left unserved with this ‘cake of horror’.
They spread nothing but terror. All these leaves a question on every lip-‘why’?
In every report of every crime report published in all the media houses across the country, there is one common thing; the perpetrators being youths. Every act of terrorism you can think of is mostly carried out by men of ‘two digits age’;youths.
Are these the same Nigerian youths? Are these the products of the over hundred of universities? Or are they not? What happened to those job hunters? Have they finally gotten a job? Are they finally getting their daily breads? From where?
There is one advice that every jobless Nigerian youth have heard i.e.’If you can’t get a white collar job, try a brown collar job’. Are my fellow Nigerian youths finally taking to that advice? If yes, is that brown collar job kidnapping?
Maryam hamza omotola,
Masscommunication student Buk
