There is no gainsaying the fact that the rate at
which poverty bites so hard in the world today cannot be said to be a child’s
play this is due to the fact that instead of the global economic meltdown
abating, its gradual increase in the entire social strata becomes an object of
worry by the day.
Coming to Africa particularly in Nigeria, the high
rate of joblessness among the youths within the age range of 18 to 35 years continue
to shoot beyond the roof while some people in the hierarchy of the government
belong to the school of thought that the ugly phenomenon is worldwide. They
also opined that that this could be the consequence of the global unemployment
crisis or and an offshoot of a mismanaged economy and wrong approach to job
creation initiatives.
The fact remains that unemployment problem in
Nigeria started a long time before the current economic downturn. Poor job
statistics among the youths emerged at the inception of bad management of the
country’s natural resources more so that the government has woefully failed to
create conducive environment for the private sector of the economy to create
job opportunities for the budding youths.
Whichever way one may look at it, the current ugly
situation is as a result of bad leadership and massive corruption by people in
high places both in the private and public sectors of the Nigerian economy. How
can one imagine that the national unemployment level is 23 per cent with the
youth segment rising to 40 percent can be normal because some more advanced
countries like Spain, South Africa, Greece, France and the United States are
facing the same ordeal and Nigerian being in a mess cannot be said to be
extraordinary?
There is no reason why our performance rating
employment wise should not be better than what obtained in the high income
developed countries as well as those that can be regarded as Asian Tigers.
Currently our population is more than 150 million with the youths having the lion
share. Normally our youths and other jobless professionals should be gainfully
employed if those at the helm of affairs had vigorously created the conducive
environment in that regard.
It will be recalled that when the military were in
the saddle of power, the very harsh socio-political environment and badly
contrapted economic policies led to massive capital flight. The straw that
broke the camel’s back was the irrational introduction of the Structural
Adjustment Program, otherwise known as SAP became the woes of the existing
manufacturers with the attendant devaluation of the national currency – a very
harsh condition that sent millions of Nigerian youths into the job market and
the rest, as it is often said, is history.
There is, obviously, no improvement in the ugly
social situation today for the fact that infrastructural decay, multiple taxes,
brigandage and unpleasant political environment made many blue chip companies,
multinational establishments and industries fold up or relocate to the neighboring
countries like Benin republic, Ghana and Togo while our youth continue to
wallow in abject poverty and roaming the streets for the jobs that are just not
there and the ugly consequence is what we all see across the world today.
As a result of that, it is quite necessary for the
budding youths to seek succor in several home income opportunities that abound
by making diligent search through the Internet. It is good to consider paid
survey activities that will at least provide them with three daily square meals.
That is the only way they make a living effortlessly as a good way to Poverty
Eradication.
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