Lack of skills, not jobs, behind Nigeria’s unemployment rate

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Despite high unemployment rates, Reno Omokri, a former presidential aide, estimates that Nigeria has over half a million job openings in the

oil and construction industries.

However, according to him, these positions remain unfilled due to the reluctance of Nigerians to acquire these specific skills. He contrasted this with the large number of Nigerian graduates holding degrees in fields he termed “dead courses,” such as sociology, philosophy, linguistics, political science, library science, religious studies, and anthropology.

“It is a bitter fact, I know, but it is true. In terms of value, a non-graduate who studied the skills of Nursing, Cloud Computing, Web Design, Ethical Hacking, Blockchain, laboratory technology, etc., is more valuable to the economy than a graduate who read sociology or philosophy.

 

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