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Fellow nigerian youth, it is a known fact that 95% of youth are in abject squalor due to unemployment. Join me as i champion an entirely new campagne against the nigerian government as an attempt to stall this problem. Details of my activities will be posted soon. Thanks.
This is how militancy in the Niger Delta started!
SIT THERE AND WAIT FOR THE DAY MANNER WILL FALL FROM HEAVEN @jerryidy
i am fully in support bcos,i hv always have it in mind.Guy how do can we c bcos i'm ready to channel all my resources into it. Guy mail me on dis id:[email protected].
Tynx
am totally interested, enough is enough, dis unemployment shit is getting outta hand, its time we do somthing about it. pls bring up any idea u have dat is not violent...
@dorchezz, i agree wit U ,'Bring up any idea U hv dat's not violent' I will also support U.
please house this thread must continue Inspector General of Police said that "Nigerians don't know how to air there views"" a simple peaceful protest can solve more than 80% of our problems please friend any simple and non radical sugestion will always be welcome.
@maxykoko evry 1 await the details of activities dat u said to be posted soon
I am down bro.send d dtails to [email protected]
u must really be a scofield to tink of sometin viable, witout violence in dis country.
i suggest that every interested person should start tinkn now.....if we will succeed. GEJ will listen if we go as a huge forum. stats has it that there are abt 20million unemployed grads in nija.
so hot jobberss lets conglomerate........thats the key
This was how it started in Tunisia!!!! watch out :o
If you have good resources you wont say contribute in fighting the government.Quote:
Originally Posted by n_bisi
Think what you can do for your country.
This is a new year, and this statement is what americans are living on today.
@guru01 i swear if i can see you physically i will slap ur face for ur selfish and unfortunate post it might be hard for u to see this post again bcos it has being moved i dislike u and your picture tells how you think. you think u are comfortable or rich. tink twice bcos i kno u ar not as rich as so many people dat will support this motion guy naija must b taking to anoda level i hv my car i drive everyday and i m not working i can live the rest of my life very comfortable wit out working for any1 pls i dont wan to go into my personality so stop the stupid discouragement you ar doing.
cheeeeeeeeeeeeeers
@freezone
did you make your money by fighting the government.
As a good citizen, why not create job opporrunity for the youth around you.
This is not the way forward, this is not the way you got your car.
Am not fighting you, but airing my view.
Thank God, finally somebody brought this up,
Now guys i gotta hand it down to you real hard. There is a country name Switzerland who cannot boost of any single raw material yet they are among the world's top leading economy countries, their education and employment rate is 100%(believe it or not). There is so much money in that country that they have enough to pay foreigners (refugees) comfortably. Ask anyone who knows Europe very well.
This is because their government caters for its citizens, they made education free and ensures that each graduate is gainfully employed after school.
There are other two countries that I’m very sure of. Saudi Arabia and Libya. Every month these two countries send out check to each family from the profit generated from their natural resources (Crude oil). My Aunty who frequently visits Dubai on business trips made me understand that they don't bother about jobs because most of the works were done by foreigners. Here we are, able bodied young man and women ready to work, yet no job.
A barrel of crude is around $92 and Nigerian exports close to 4million barrels every day(do the math yourself). This country has more than enough to cater for it's citizens rather they (well connected people) keep on looting this money and circulating it amongst themselves.
Now, you may ask yourself why have they persistently and continuously punish the majority like you and i and the over 20million graduates, its simply because we the majority are either ignorant or we are scared to fight(non violently) for our rights.
Great men like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther, Obafemi Awolowo, Azikiwe, Belewa etc can never be forgotten, not because they are so rich but because of their accomplishments in life.
We can only be remembered for what we have done and not what we have acquired.
Is it not time we stood up against these people and say enough is enough, is it not high time we stand up and fight for what rightly belongs to us instead of staying at home, day after day, month after month and year after year waiting for a miracle to happen. Remember there are only two ways to live your live, either you take charge of your destiny or your destiny takes charge of you.
Last XMAS, i met someone whom i have not seen for close to ten years, he told me that he named his baby boy after me, i asked him why, he said it's because of the way i behave.
I was more than honored.
Let me ask you that have been at home for almost 1-5 years waiting for a job, how would you like to be remembered? maybe one day you might end up as a hotel attendant(God forbid), but it is true. As for me, i Nnamdi would want to put my name as one of those people that stopped alarming rate of unemployment for generations to come.
Someone suggested we should think of what to do for our country, believe me if we are able to stop this alarming rate of unemployment for generations to come we would become heroes of our time.
Now, this fight against unemployment will be successful if we unite as one family and see it as a selfless service, i mean we shouldn't see ourselves as people to benefit but generations to come. This is because, this fight is a very serious one, some well connected people who are benefitting from this our suffering will fight with every strategy they can monitor, and if we see this as profit making venture, then they may succeed in influencing some of us either by bribery or any other form thereby disorganizing the purpose of our struggle.
Secondly, we should remove any form of fear from ourselves, you must remember that this is not a roller coaster ride, we should expert threat, they might even try to harm us, but if we stay strong and courageous just like our predecessors we being the majority will definitely succeed.
President Goodluck, during his campaign on PDP primaries promise to create employment opportunities, how he planned to do that, i completely have no idea.
Finally some us where asking of ideas, below are few of my suggestions.
1. We should find a way to gather ourselves together with the resources (like transportation, banners, posters etc) that we can lay hands on.
2. We should define our purpose like the ones i listed below:
i. to ensure that employment is created, the federal government should include unemployed in their budget whereby each unemployed youth should be paid at least N30,000 per month for logistic purposes until he/she secures a job. Sometime ago in this forum i was made to understand that the allowance of a Speaker in the house of assembly is close to N80 million naira. This amount will not have any slightest effect on the revenues generated from this country.
ii. The issue of scratch card before application from any government or non government institution shall henceforth be nullified.
iii. Professional trainings, both home and abroad (fully sponsored by federal government) to meet company's standard should be organized for all unemployed youth in this country. This is what China did.
3. Then finally we shall fix a date when all of us will be matching down to Abuja.
This planned fight may look unrealistic, hopeless or waste of time but believe me if make a bold move, they will have a rethink, they know what to do but they feel, since we are not complaining or doing anything about it what's the essence of implementing such methods.
What this government needs is a kind of trigger for them to wake up and start living up to their responsibilities, instead of sitting there drinking, laughing and continuously loot our resources while we continue to suffer and wait for miracle to happen.
That we suffer doesn't bother them, because they have planned for their families and all their relatives. Now you and i that doesn't have any connection, what should we do? Do we continue to watch these dramas continue to unfold before us or should we make a move and put an end to this?
If federal government put unemployed graduates for budget, na bad thing?
@nnamdi
you have spoken well, but what i want you to know is that naija is full of corruption that nobody can be trusted when it comes to money aspect.
This is not a one man fight and i think it should not be the fight of the physical.
My suggestion is let we all mobilize our self to pray for our leaders at least once in a week either christian or muslim, it will reduce violent rate and work faster if we believe in faith.
Nothing in physical is violence free.
What do you guys think.
@guru01 i am not equally fighting u, of course there is goin to be much arguments and deliberations before we would all come to see why we should take this to another level. you talk of job creation which is going to cater just for our daily bread friend there is more to life than to eat and sleep you got the power to make changes and decisions on this earth alone hereafter is not for you to make choices @guru01 i am saying it again what we are calling for is not fighting the government but calling for a well coordinated non radical peaceful protest its not immediate but we would try sample opinions and seek concrete support from the public and international organization also we are going to apply for a legal backing for it to be effective we are all graduate we are not agbero boys things like this are very sensitive.
@guru01, thank you very much for that contribution, it is in fact one of the greatest tools we need to be victorious (ie prayer). If you read my post very well just like @freezone mentioned, it is not a fight against the government and it doesn't have anything to do violent, rather it is a suggestion on how to save this country before things get outta of hand. It's a call for the government to see that about 30% of people in this country are unemployed and to remind them that they are part of the administration, and that this country cannot develop or move forward if it continues to increase.
Does it ever occur to you that this might be an answer to years of prayer by the faithfuls. Every year close to 95,000 graduates are produced in this country and about five to ten thousand get employed, most of them are not even happy at their place of work, and the number of unemployed keeps on increasing.
My opinion is merely a suggestion and not a must do by the people involved and no one can succeed in this fight alone, it has to be a collateral agreement by the majority. All I'm suggesting is for us to make a move coupled with our prayers, you will be surprise at the outcome. You will see that the same thing which you may be taking as a big deal is nothing at all.
@guru01 at times, i feel that this government which you are so much protecting, you might be part of it(lol). Well even if you are, then you have a very big role to play in this, we need people in power to tell us how to relay this message in the most law abiding and cordial manner.
As for the part of not trusting anyone when it comes to money issue, you are definitely right, that's why i suggested we should find a way to gather ourselves and define our purpose.
Please lets no longer fold our hands and do nothing, thinking that God will provide. Remember heaven helps those who helps themselves, a journey of a thousand miles starts with a step, take a step today and you will be surprise at the difference you will make in this country. Abi guys no be true?
Guys holla me on 07038714359 or [email protected] whenever you guys are ready for the match.
Count me in.
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Are you guys saying that even those that didnt go through school, but the school went through them. That cant even defend their result, should also be employed?
A lot who dint go to school can perform better than a lot of today's SO CALLED GRADUATES. It's so unfortunate. I refuse to join the number.
May God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost bless whoever brought about this topic. And incase u are a Muslim, may Allah uplift u. It is long overdue. This is the right time to act. Igwebuike! There is strength in multitude. Enough is enough. Our number can affect the coming election if we can unite. It is either now or never. Procastination is a thief of time. Wake up my fellow youths enough of slumber. In a country where senators earn above 10 million naira a month and we are talking of unemployment like this. Over 80 billion was given to Jega to conduct elections and u can agree wit me that from the registration exercise that he has started failing. If the govt can budget half of this money to tackle unemployment all of us will be home and dry. The govt can be compelled to do somthing if they notice our seriouseness. This is not a military regime so we don't have to be afraid. President Goodluck was suggesting given #250,000 to each corper at the end of service to fight unemployment, we can make him include us as well. First, we must organise ourselves in large numbers. One of the way of doing this is to set up a website where every unemployed can register. Second we can organise peaceful demonstration accross each state of the fedration. C'mon who says we can't achieve our purpose? Nigerians wake up, pls enough is enough. This na my number 08038700964. God bless Nigeria.
We have alot of issue to tackle here, which incluudes the government, employers, grauates and the schools.
As for the website i can create one.
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That's the spirit man(@guru01). Now, may i suggest that once the website is created, all unemployed graduates should scan their degree and NYSC certificates and register immediately for us to know the next step to take.
@lovinah and Faith, i don;t think this is the right place to determine those that are better than the others, believe me, we need all the help we can get. For now we are all Nigerian graduates(note: Nigerian graduates).
Hey, where are this other guys now, una don dey slack?
I suggest we first get the website and encourage all the unemployed to register. We can use social network like facebook to reach out to others. Today there is a revolution going on in Tunisia and Egypt because of this same unemployment and bad governance. The unfortunate thing is that here in Nigeria the situation is worse yet nobody is ready to step out. If we all keep mum it will remain business as usual. Think about it my friends.
guy where is website nw pls note d ad of dis website shld b able to create a traffic pls do it shap shap
@guru01, how is the website coming? Please can you make a little bit snappy, now that the spirit is willing.
Imo State Governor Ohakim has started giving out appointment letter to the youths after playing politics with it for a while because he is now soliciting for their vote.
You can imagine what will happen if President Goodluck Jonathan learns that about 20 million Nigerians are willing to vote for him if he will help reduce unemployment.
@guru01 hope your're putting final touches to the website.
Please any other IT professional can help out, this is not a one man Job. We have to act now because this opportunity might never present itself again. :)
Procastination is a thief of time. It is very easy to get the predent's attention via facebook. He normally replies to collective comments posted to his wall. You can check it out yourself. I suggest that while we are waiting for our website we can start sending messages to the president. We can suggest to him that he should get a database of unemployed Nigerians and make a budget that will accommodate them. I have already sent one message across to him yesterday. Today I will send another one. If all of us start sending messages to him on a daily bases I believe something positive will emanate. Think about this my friends.
facebook is already on ground why do u av to create a website when u can make use of a site that has numbers and people visit regularly. Just start a group and invite people. And the revolution begins. Building a new website waste time and u need publicity while facebook does not need the publicity
So what will be the name of this site
Will it be a forum or a site that only the administrators can create a topic.
i need answers immediately, to enable complete the job....
It is ideal for it to be a group, at least for now, whereby comments will be directly passed to the appropriate quarters. Such comments will be decided by majority of comments of the group. The administrators of the group MUST be people of proven integrity who will not jeopardize the effort, now and in the future till the results are achieved.
ALUTA CONTINUA VICTORIA ASCERTA
For once i thought you guys have lost your confindence on this our planned movement, like i said it's not something one or few people can achieve, it's for the majority.
The reason for the website is for us to get roughly the number of unemployed graduates in Nigeria(ie after registering with their credentials). So that, hopefully if something tangible comes out of this movement(i pray so) we will know where to channel it.
Facebook is very good; for comments, suggestions, invitations etc but we cannot use it for registration as this is not only for our generation but for generations to come ie it is going to be a continual process with no restrictions.
Since we are dealing with a large number, it is going to be a forum site where decisions of majority counts not few people.
Good to have you guys back(better late than never). One love
so what is the house suggesting
Get the site up and running @guru01
Hi Guys
I once posted the below right here on NAIJAHOTJOBS, got few responses and this marred the whole idea, i believe in your courage but i strongly believe what we need right now is this:
GRADUATE NETWORK CALLING!!!
Graduate Network is a proposed forum for graduates to pool their resources( expertise,social and financial capital, equipment e.t.c) for the purpose of exchange so as to form the next biggest enterprise, its basically a platform for expertise,social and financial capital, equipment e.t.c exchange.
This is a call to all graduates that know their onions well out there, irrespective of expertise; Accounting, Arts, Administration, Engineering, Medicine, Law, science, Computing, whatever your discipline is, it's about that time we put our future before us, our future is in our hands, rather than watch and let some employer orchestrate our future for us,we can be what we want to be, not what life push our ways.
Are you tired of applying for that job that you wonder if they ever did get your application? have you gone bankrupt resulting from "investing" in Guardian Newspaper on Tuesdays and Thursdays?
Whats your expertise? Whats your passion? , do you have that entrepreneurial spirit? how much can you persevere? do you have that ground breaking business idea? Advertising, Real Estate, Entertainment, Sports, Fashion, Transportation, ICT, Aesthetics just name it, lets come together and form that partnership that works, we have what it takes; the Zeal and the right education, together we can make that huge corporation.
Bring your idea(s) and/or expertise to the table,lets brainstorm,think through it, unavailability of capital is no excuse,with basic office equipments such as office space,PCs, printers, internet and furnitures(possible by individual contribution),and the right expertise some businesses are good to go.
Don't wait for that plum job that may never come(no thanks to godfatherism) lets take this giant leap,if we can dream it, we can live it! Are you that (wo)man with the right idea, expertise and attitude,lets talk, whats your tought? lets get started! contact me:
Olapo Oladapo
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08020669514
Oladapo, honestly i really like this your idea, it is very resourceful, infact i'm in.
Just remember, this journey you are about to embark is very challenging especially the financial aspect of it. You cannot succeed in any business unless you have a strong capital(finance) or connection to obtain it. So, tell me where will like this office to be located? is it in Lagos? as for me i am very far away from Lagos.
Secondly, this unemployment movement we are about to embark on, is just to see if we can obtain a little help or support from the federal government. It's not that we have lost our focus or purpose as graduates but optimistic that the federal government will establish policies that will be very helpful to the unemployed. Other countries are doing it so why can't Nigeria do it?
How about this domain name
nigeriangraduates.org
Splendid @guru01, you can still make it dot com if possible.
Remember to create it in such a way that it will be easy for people to register with their credentials.
Take care and God's speed.