Unemployment Reaching Dangerous Dimension in Nigeria, Says Niger Gov

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As the Sani Bello foundation graduates 115 youths from its vocational school, Niger State Governor, Sani Bello, has raised the alarm that only 50 out of 250,000 graduates across the country secure employment after their national youth service year.

Bello said the unemployment rate in the country has reached a dangerous dimension requiring concerted efforts by relevant stakeholders to address and stem the trend.

The governor spoke in Kontagora at the weekend at the graduation of the trainees from the Colonel Sani Bello vocational school under the Sani Bello foundation.


The foundation is sponsored by the father of the governor and one time military Governor of Kano State.

"The situation now calls for urgent attention. From every 250,000 corps members that complete their mandatory service year, hardly do we have 50 of them getting jobs, thereby making vocational education and skill acquisition the way to empower our teeming youths.

"The high rate of unemployment of our youths after university education would have been taken care off, if our youths strive to acquire and develop skills in various vocations, thereby getting themselves gainfully engaged and becoming masters of their future.

 "It is in the light of this that our administration is reviving the technical and vocational education by renovating three technical colleges in the state. Our consultant is almost through with the template so that our youths are equipped for their future rather than waiting endlessly for the jobs that are not available," Bello stated.

He commended the foundation for empowering over 1,000 youths so far in various vocations, and described the efforts of the non-profit making foundation as complementary of government's youth empowerment programmes.

The Vice Chairman of the foundation, Alhaji Usman Sani Bello, in his address, said the need to ensure a secured future for the younger generations had been the driving force of the foundation, adding that the need to give back to the society was equally responsible for the establishment of the foundation by Colonel Sani Bello (rtd).

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