ENHANCING EMPLOYABILITY OF THE NIGERIAN YOUTH

INTRODUCTION

The youth is the period between childhood and Adulthood. The Nigerian youth like youth from the rest of the world are active and vibrant set of individuals and excited about learning but the environment they have found themselves has made them unemployable.

THE WAY FORWARD

u Development of Skills

u Training and Re-training

u Hand-on and Hard Working

u Academic Re-Orientation

u Development of Educational System

Development of Skills
An average Nigerian youth is concern about certificate because they live in an environment that celebrate certificate rather than skills acquisition. An average employer is after what you have to offer. Nigerian youth need to development hand-on skills and look beyond certificate.
Certificate is good but what gives it value is the holder.

Training and Re-training
Nigeria youth need to avail themselves the opportunity to trained and embrace continuous training in order to remain relevance in the society. There are young people in Nigeria involved in the production of concrete blocks manually, if they are expose to training in handling advance concrete block making machine and they will be come employable in companies that produces concrete blocks.

Hand-on and Hard Working
An average Nigerian youth prefers the easy way out of every thing. The ‘get rich quick’ syndrome has eaten deep into an average Nigerian youth. There is no substitute for hard working, they need to refuse laziness and embrace hard-working.

Academic Re-Orientation
An average Nigerian University Graduate can not practice what he or she has learnt in the four-wall of the classroom. Many went to school for the sake of attendance not for knowledge acquisition. The youth need to change there orientation about learning and seek to acquire knowledge.

Development of Educational System
The government need to invest more than ever before into the educational system. Private and non-governmental organisation alike need to be involved in the development of education, do it yourself and not leave it to the government alone. Nigerian youth are been trained to seek employment and not productive .