Dr. Dipo Awojide, a UK based Nigerian lecturer and social media influencer has taken to twitter to reveal a staggering number of PhD holders who are unemployed in Nigeria.

Dr. Dipo popularly known as Ogbeni Dipo on the Twitter micro blogging platform, revealed that over 17,000 people with PhD qualification are roaming the streets of Nigeria jobless.

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His tweet has sparked a heated conversation on the subject of unemployment in the country once again.

Some of the fans were of the view that, the youth should focus on gaining employable skills than just going through a system of education just to acquire some papers.

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Unemployment is generally high in most countries in the world but the case for third world countries is even worst.

A couple of years ago an unemployed graduate set himself ablaze to spark the Tunisian uprising.

Graduate unemployment is skyrocketing in most countries in Africa. Due to the high population of Nigeria, its number of unemployed graduates even looks scary.

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As of December 19, 2018, there were 20.9 million people in Nigeria who did nothing at all or worked under 20 hours a week.

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This is according to a report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which shows that the unemployment rate has increased from 17.6 million (18.8%) in 2017 to 20.9 million (23.1%) in 2018.

This huge spike in only nine months makes unemployment one of Nigeria’s biggest challenges.

The Dangote Group, a multinational conglomerate founded by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has announced its plans to tackle this particular problem.

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Devakumar VG Edwin, the company’s Executive Director, Strategy, Capital Project and Portfolio Development made the announcement at the second edition of the Agribusiness Summit in Abuja.

According to him, the Group will be tackling unemployment by upping its investments in the agricultural sector. He explained that agriculture appears to be the most viable solution, adding that huge investments from the company should improve Nigeria’s economy.

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In his words, “Agriculture employs 37 per cent of the population. This is against the backdrop of a 23 per cent unemployment rate in the country. The time is rife to put the agricultural sector in the front burner, more so that Nigeria’s ever-growing population is projected to hit 440million by the year 2050.”

Revealing the Group’s strategy, Edwin stated that his conglomerate will be investing in rice, tomato paste, sugar, dairy products and oil seeds.

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To achieve its purpose, the company is constructing a state of the art storage silos for a total capacity of one million tons of paddy. He also disclosed plans to construct a 3 million tons fertilizer plant and have 40,000 hectares to produce sugar.

“There is an ongoing investment in 15,000 hectares to produce and process tomato paste of 150,000 tons per year. The current import is 0.5 million tons per year,” he added.

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The Dangote Group executive concluded by calling on Nigerians to “support the agricultural drive by the Dangote Group which is in line with government policy and the yearnings of the people.”

Source: Pulse Nigeria

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In this time of high unemployment among the country’s teeming graduate youth, many of them resort to all sort of things to keep body and soul together. It is evident that the desperate males will likely join fraud squad which is popularly called Yahoo-Yahoo or Sakawa. Their female counterparts will also get involved in promiscuous lifestyle to survive.

Well this is not the case of one beautiful woman. Jossy Otu, after not getting employment came up with a weird idea. She decided to hawk food in a wheelbarrow. Jossy put down the prestige of being a university graduate, used the savings she got from her national service to get a wheelbarrow and cooking utensils among others.

In a Facebook post trending in Nigeria, she proudly exhibits her wares and advises her fellow graduates to be innovative so as to curb the unemployment menace in the country. It seems Jossy is not only making good ends meet. She has also bagged a lawyer husband from her trade.

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