YOUNG, STRONG, AND UNEMPLOYED

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The recent protests by some Rivers youths at the Chevron and Shell facilities have brought many questions to my mind. Questions that need answers because, these answers will determine our future; our posterity.

Unemployment is not a new thing in the world today. In fact if you're a youth in one of the Eurozone countries like Greece, Spain, etc, then you'd really understand this. Youth unemployment is also a virus in developing countries too. These days even a good university certificate is no gurantee that you'd get a job, yet every year we have graduation ceremonies in our universities. Fresh graduates join the already long queue of job seekers that walk around the streets with files looking for an opening.
 

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Just how do we solve this collapse I ask? The consistent ASUU strikes and the fact that the number of Jamb applicants have doubled in the past one year even adds to the sadness of the whole picture. There seems to be no hope for the youth; everywhere seems stuffed, blocked, packed... Then I think about entrepreneurship; the problem solving mentality.

Do our schools prepare youths to be problem solvers? To be proactive and ready to face challenges? How many of our youths can boast of inventions and innovations of their own just like youths abroad do. Even the few that come up with anything are left alone to fend for their ideas by themselves. Just how then do we grow?

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2015 is coming and all these idle youths will be turned into vices and instruments of destruction! At that point what will we be doing? Complaining? Pointing fingers at each other? I just pray we act before it is too late.