The days are gone when young graduates sit at home and look for white collar jobs or depend on the government for employment . In recent years, more and more determined graduates especially the ladies are creating their own sources of income.
Graduates are diving into various vocations ranging from shoe making to farming, trading, and so on.
Ogechukwu Kate, is an example of one of such. She is a graduate of Ebonyi State University who, due to unemployment, sells charcoal for a living.
In a Facebook post, Kate explains the challenges she faces daily and the highs and lows of her trade.
Ogechukwu Kata, Facebook
My dear Kate,
Please use a face mask anytime you are doing your work. Coal inhalation could result in lung issues.
Sincerely
Malam Wane
If I may ask what are your qualifications by the way, what grade did you make when you graduated, that is if you graduated, again that is if you ever saw the four walls of the university, because from the way you talk, I smell ignoramus ( a heavy dose of it oppressing you seriously).
You digressed fully when you left the issues at stake to talk about mushroom state universities as if that is the issue.
The failure of leadership is what has led us to this path and when people like you accidentally come into leadership, we are in worse trouble than we are already
Malam Wane I think your naivety rings to the sky, it does not matter the university rating anywhere in Africa be rest assured that no recent Nigerian graduate or qualification is regarded anywhere in the world. The onus is on the graduate to prove his/her worth. You blame the wrong person – talking low of a woman who by dint of hard work wouldn’t give in to the seduction of poverty created around her by the leaders who pillage the wealth of the nation and dump them overseas, leaving the citizens wallowing in abject penury – shows the extent of low reasoning many who think they reason have been dragged to in Nigeria. Buhari’s daughters and children and those of wealthy thieves ruling in one capacity or the other in the God – forsaken environment like yours are counted worthy because their parents stole and stored for their children, buying houses oversea and sending their children to live and study there while the rest of you remain in filth, and you don’t see anything about that? Something is wrong somewhere! How then can a people who failed to realize the source of their predicament advance any solution for it. God Help the righteous and Pius ones!
This is the type of First Class we produce in mushroom Nigerian universities nowadays. A First Class student is supposed to be highly creative, innovative and capable of succeeding upon graduation. In a situation where over 200 students graduate with First Class in a university not rated among the first 100 in Africa shows that the quality of our education has plummeted over the years. Indeed, it is reported that some proprietors of private universities doctor student’s grades to justify the exorbitant fees being charged. Recall the examination administered to such students by a firm for employment recently during which less than 20% of the 1st Class students passed.