Nigerian Universities Graduate Unemployable People – Ekweremadu

he Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, is irked by the increasing rate of unemployment in the country and has advised government to invest in vocational training and skill acquisition as a way of enhancing the employment of youths.

Ekweremadu who spoke recently in Enugu during the inauguration of a vocational training institute, lamented that the unemployment rate in the country has remained high because of the failure of the government to come up with progressive and pragmatic strategies of resolving the challenges.

In a chat with newsmen at the flag off of the programme, the deputy Senate president decried a situation where tertiary institutions in the country graduate thousands of ‘unemployable people’ annually. .

He, therefore, pointed out that the vocational training school has been packaged to fill the gap in the system. “It’s really unfortunate that we have engineers that can’t construct anything; we have technicians that can’t fix anything. We have plumbers who are just disasters.

We must come to terms with the fact that government alone cannot solve our problems. Civil and public services cannot provide jobs for the entire populace. We must invest in vocational training, otherwise in the next 50 years, the nation will be in a serious problem,” he said.