The education for Nigeria might not be as great as we want it especially when we talk generally about the public education system of the country. But that does not cancel out the fact that we are well educated In Nigeria and in case you want to know, I can guarantee that we can also compete with the world in terms of innovation and workable knowledge. What we have gotten as an extra armor is our level of smartness as people and how we can quickly use our intuition to make things work for us.
The government only needed to get our education more equipped and get us more sufficated and consistent curricular to work with and that's all. Another thing we need from our government is for them to open up more opportunities for people. When people work, let them be able to find value from it. Instead of just being a degree, let it also be about the skills thst can immediately get us more exposed to the world technological opportunities.
the best thing that I would like the government to do must concerning about the work opportunities, let them set a goal that once you're graduating from high school. At school their not when you get home you're instantly going over to work immediately. Not stopping and start looking for work tomorrow no, that isn't right as an graduate with a better degree holder. So the government should put this in mind and have a little conscious that the children have gone a long way, and their parents are expecting something good from them. So making it seems as if education isn't important anymore so for me they should make a strong plan towards the work aspect, not looking at it as if it's not affecting the citizens or the graduates in the country. The leaders should think about it and see through it.
OP, if we must be honest about this whole job issue, it will be extremely difficult for government to create an automated system of employment where immediately you leave the school environment as a graduate or after you have obtained your NYSC, you will automatically get employment, let's say, probably, from the organization you served. It will be difficult because these organizations will easily get over bloated with their staff capacity and it won't be able to Harbour for the new intakes as many of these organizations do not really have a spacious working environments or even permanent offices. And when you also talk about the welfare system, it's already a poor one and bringing new corps members every year to work in the organizations without discarding the previous ones won't be realistic even when we take those corps members as temporary staffs.
Let's make this analysis together. According to an online publication made by
ThisDay newspaper about 3 years ago, the Director General of the Budget Office of the Federation mentioned that the federal government still maintains a total number of 943 MDAs (Ministries, Departments and Agencies) and 541 corporations across the country and they are highly complaining of how to downsize the number of those MDAs and Corporations which also brought about the discussions around the implementation of the Oronsaye report proposed by this government suggesting that some of these MDAs be collapsed, merged or scraped especially those that have similar job descriptions in the bid to reduce the cost of governance in the country.
Now, lets just take this aforementioned as an example and sample it with the number of graduates and NYSC corps members the country provides every year. In another online publication made by
Vanguard newspaper in last year, over 400,000 youths graduate from the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme annually. I think these numbers are enough for us to make our analysis now.
Okay, so let's combine the total number of MDAs and Corporations in the country and it will give us about 1,484 in total then let's do the math. When you divide the total number of the total number of corps members in 1 year by MDAs and Corporations. You will have an average of 269 corps members shared across those workplaces. Now let's multiply this by 10 years. It will give you an average of 2,695 corps members deployed to those workplaces, how do you then get to pay them? Let's even join the states and LGAs, can they really sustain such things, absolutely no.
So, alternative, I will suggest the government to pay more attention to the Small and medium-sized entreprizes, which are the major employers of jobs across all the world. In countries where we see jobs almost everywhere, the government must have provided the ease of doing business to those small business owners to allow their businesses and markets flourish, while government still provides a strong and an additional value chain for them. But in Nigeria, life is a hell for any SMEs out there and that have greatly influenced the employment opportunities of the countries and the way of living by extension.