‘Don’t Blame Buhari for High Unemployment Rate’, Top Southeast Senator Tells Nigerians

• The lawmaker representing Abia North Senatorial District has disclosed that many Nigerian graduates are not adequately trained hence the insecurity in the country
• Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has urged Nigerians not to criticise President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly because of the country's high unemployment rate
• The APC lawmaker and former governor of Abia state stated further that many lecturers in higher institutions are also not knowledgeable enough

The Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has told Nigerians not to blame neither President Muhammadu Buhari nor the National Assembly over the high unemployment rate in the country.

The federal lawmaker noted that many graduates were not properly groomed.

The former Abia state governor stated this when he spoke at a Graduate Skills Training (GST) programme in Abuja on Monday, September 12.

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Kalu added that many lecturers don’t know what they are teaching in the tertiary institutions, hence, the country produces unemployable graduates, Leadership reported.

Kalu said:

“We should not blame President Muhammadu Buhari nor the National Assembly over the high rate of unemployment in the country which is causing insecurity. I’ve been a governor, so I know what I am talking about.”

Kalu says most graduates are not well trained

While advising the participants of the graduate skills training, Kalu said most people in many companies were not well trained, Vanguard report added.

“Training is the key,” Kalu said, adding that, “No human being is perfect. Government is not perfect, the private sector cannot be perfect. What you should do is to take the good and throw away the bad."

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The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) announced on December 7, 2022, that it will begin recruitment for the 2023 general elections.

The electoral body said its recruitment portal would be opened to interested candidates on September 14, 2022, by 8:00 pm.

INEC asked eligible and interested candidates to visit its portal and apply for registration for all categories of ad-hoc staff except for collation officers.

“There are no jobs in Bahrain, please stop coming”: Man makes video to warn Nigerians

Legit.ng reported that a young man has voiced out his frustration in a video at people falling prey to fake agents promising them jobs in Bahrain, a Middle East country.

He said that he just picked up his colleague from the airport in Bahrain who was on a flight that was full of Nigerians coming to Bahrain for jobs.

To show that he is not just discouraging people from coming abroad, he said that he lives in the foreign country and the unemployment rate is high.

Source: Legit.ng