President Muhammadu Buhari
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja –
President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Nigerian youths to use their education and exposure to improve themselves and not see them as tickets to depend on the government.
President Buhari made the call in an interview with Channels TV on Wednesday.
According to the president: “I wish when they go to school; when they work hard; when they earn their degree, they don’t do it thinking that government must give them job”.
“You get educated because an educated person is certainly better than an uneducated person even in identifying personal problems” he said.
He said: “Education is not just meant to hang on to the government to give you jobs and then what the colonialists indoctrinated in us to believe – have a car, have a house; start work by 8:00 am and close by 2 pm.” Buhari said.
Meanwhile, a recent survey conducted by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS), indicated that rather than fall, the number of unemployed Nigerians, particularly among the youths, had continued to soar.
According to the NBS, the unemployment rate rose from 27.1 per cent in Q2 2020 to 33.3 per cent in Q4 2020.
The survey also indicated that the problem of unemployment equally witnessed a marginal rise to 40 per cent – or 80 million Nigerians – a figure that is projected to increase to 90 million or 45 per cent by 2022.
