The title of this piece might sound funny but
I mean no fun at all. Given our present
condition in Nigeria, the truth must be told
no matter how bitter it tastes and someone
must be mad enough to give it his/her voice.
While my heart bleeds and I sympathise with
the families of the 23 job seekers who lost
their lives in the recent immigration
recruitment exercise, I still feel strongly that
no lesson has been learnt.
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The NIS recruitment attracted the attention
of young Nigerians nationwide more than
any other social, political, economic,
religious or regional functions ever did; this
premised on the fact that a common
challenge that regards none of our
differences and affiliations as Nigerians is
unemployment. But we are yet to face the
reality as a nation as we have resolved to
fold our arms and say God go judge, when
we are supposed to hold our leaders’ legs to
the fire. I submit to us that before God
judges, many Nigerians must have burnt to
cinders in the hell our myopic and
kleptomaniac leaders have turned our
country to.
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God has been so gracious and good to
Nigeria. He has giving us large water bodies
to be dammed to generate power that
triggers industrialisation, sunlight for solar
energy, arable land for agriculture, iron ore,
gold, crude to meet our PMS need and
generate revenue to better the lives of
Nigerians and above all, he’s always
protected us against natural disasters. If
amidst these abundant resources we still
expect God to fix things our leaders can fix,
then, calling God to come mount a bulldozer
to fix our bad roads will not be out of place
or better still, we could invite God to contest
the 2015 presidential election.
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It’s only in Nigeria that young qualified
graduates seek spiritual assistance or pay in
cash or kind to get employed, yet we’re
comfortable because we feel God will judge.
Whereas in this same country, a criminal like
Tompolo was awarded contract worth
N15billion to protect oil pipelines while
government is still on its kneels begging
Boko Haram members to cease fire and
name their price to restore peace in North-
east Nigeria. I feel we should ask, is our
government for us as democracy dictates?
Because it appears it pays to be a criminal
than to be a law abiding citizen in Nigeria.
Before now, 13,000 applicants who include
6 Ph.D, 704 Masters and over 8,460 bachelor
degree holders applied as Graduate
Executive Truck Drivers during Dangote
Group’s recruitment. One could imagine
how unemployment has severely plagued
Nigerian youths for close to 6.5 million
Nigerians to have applied for 4,500 job
vacancies. It further proves false Dr. Ngozi
Okonjo-Iwealla’s statement at the
International Conference on Emerging
Democracies in Africa organised by the
National Institute of Legislative Studies in
Abuja that youth unemployment in Nigeria is
currently at 37%. President Jonathan must
wake up from his slumber and stop
boasting that his administration created 1.6
million jobs in 2013. We know
unemployment predates his administration
but the reason he was voted for was not to
leave things the way they were or stand as a
figurehead while corrupt men and women
milk our country dry.
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The recruitment jamboree scheduled just for
formality while highly connected people
have already been employed is what I call,
NYSC: National Youth Suffering Competition.
It featured: 1. The duplicitous N1000
registration fee, exploited from about
6.5million applicants. A smart person must
be able to guess how much was stolen from
jobless youths through this. 2. Applicants’
sleepless nights browsing to access the
high-traffic site. 3. Internet charges and cost
of travelling to examination centres
nationwide. Yet, applicants were delayed
beyond the scheduled time under the hot
weather, horsewhipped and teargased in
some centres and above all, 23 good lives
were lost due to stampede, courtesy, poor
organisation.
Why are we at this again? In 2008, not less
than 20 Nigerian youths lost their lives in
similar recruitment madness. This simply
means we are twice beaten, an example of a
country that lacks direction and never learns
from experience. What is the value of the life
of a Nigerian youth to our leaders?
Whichever way we like to euphemise the
disaster or apportion blames, blaming the
stampede on impatience of the job seekers
by the Minister of Interior, Abbah Moro is
inhuman. Moro, whose children would have
gotten the same immigration jobs without
writing the exam or written same in the
comfort of their home if they found
themselves in the same tight corner job
seekers in Nigeria have found themselves,
lacks respect for human lives to have blamed
the disaster on the job seekers’ impatience.
Who else should be impatient if not the
poor, deprived and unemployed Nigerian
youths? This reveals how our leaders call us
fools despite the agony they have caused us
because we sheepishly resign to fate.
The public’s call for Moro’s head is no
answer to the unemployment question on
ground, holding our government
responsible and standing our ground until
something is done about unemployment
should be our collective agitation rather
than getting lost in the blame game. Not
even the automatic employment offers for
family members of the deceased and injured
applicants should pacify us.
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I mean no fun at all. Given our present
condition in Nigeria, the truth must be told
no matter how bitter it tastes and someone
must be mad enough to give it his/her voice.
While my heart bleeds and I sympathise with
the families of the 23 job seekers who lost
their lives in the recent immigration
recruitment exercise, I still feel strongly that
no lesson has been learnt.
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The NIS recruitment attracted the attention
of young Nigerians nationwide more than
any other social, political, economic,
religious or regional functions ever did; this
premised on the fact that a common
challenge that regards none of our
differences and affiliations as Nigerians is
unemployment. But we are yet to face the
reality as a nation as we have resolved to
fold our arms and say God go judge, when
we are supposed to hold our leaders’ legs to
the fire. I submit to us that before God
judges, many Nigerians must have burnt to
cinders in the hell our myopic and
kleptomaniac leaders have turned our
country to.
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God has been so gracious and good to
Nigeria. He has giving us large water bodies
to be dammed to generate power that
triggers industrialisation, sunlight for solar
energy, arable land for agriculture, iron ore,
gold, crude to meet our PMS need and
generate revenue to better the lives of
Nigerians and above all, he’s always
protected us against natural disasters. If
amidst these abundant resources we still
expect God to fix things our leaders can fix,
then, calling God to come mount a bulldozer
to fix our bad roads will not be out of place
or better still, we could invite God to contest
the 2015 presidential election.
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It’s only in Nigeria that young qualified
graduates seek spiritual assistance or pay in
cash or kind to get employed, yet we’re
comfortable because we feel God will judge.
Whereas in this same country, a criminal like
Tompolo was awarded contract worth
N15billion to protect oil pipelines while
government is still on its kneels begging
Boko Haram members to cease fire and
name their price to restore peace in North-
east Nigeria. I feel we should ask, is our
government for us as democracy dictates?
Because it appears it pays to be a criminal
than to be a law abiding citizen in Nigeria.
Before now, 13,000 applicants who include
6 Ph.D, 704 Masters and over 8,460 bachelor
degree holders applied as Graduate
Executive Truck Drivers during Dangote
Group’s recruitment. One could imagine
how unemployment has severely plagued
Nigerian youths for close to 6.5 million
Nigerians to have applied for 4,500 job
vacancies. It further proves false Dr. Ngozi
Okonjo-Iwealla’s statement at the
International Conference on Emerging
Democracies in Africa organised by the
National Institute of Legislative Studies in
Abuja that youth unemployment in Nigeria is
currently at 37%. President Jonathan must
wake up from his slumber and stop
boasting that his administration created 1.6
million jobs in 2013. We know
unemployment predates his administration
but the reason he was voted for was not to
leave things the way they were or stand as a
figurehead while corrupt men and women
milk our country dry.
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The recruitment jamboree scheduled just for
formality while highly connected people
have already been employed is what I call,
NYSC: National Youth Suffering Competition.
It featured: 1. The duplicitous N1000
registration fee, exploited from about
6.5million applicants. A smart person must
be able to guess how much was stolen from
jobless youths through this. 2. Applicants’
sleepless nights browsing to access the
high-traffic site. 3. Internet charges and cost
of travelling to examination centres
nationwide. Yet, applicants were delayed
beyond the scheduled time under the hot
weather, horsewhipped and teargased in
some centres and above all, 23 good lives
were lost due to stampede, courtesy, poor
organisation.
Why are we at this again? In 2008, not less
than 20 Nigerian youths lost their lives in
similar recruitment madness. This simply
means we are twice beaten, an example of a
country that lacks direction and never learns
from experience. What is the value of the life
of a Nigerian youth to our leaders?
Whichever way we like to euphemise the
disaster or apportion blames, blaming the
stampede on impatience of the job seekers
by the Minister of Interior, Abbah Moro is
inhuman. Moro, whose children would have
gotten the same immigration jobs without
writing the exam or written same in the
comfort of their home if they found
themselves in the same tight corner job
seekers in Nigeria have found themselves,
lacks respect for human lives to have blamed
the disaster on the job seekers’ impatience.
Who else should be impatient if not the
poor, deprived and unemployed Nigerian
youths? This reveals how our leaders call us
fools despite the agony they have caused us
because we sheepishly resign to fate.
The public’s call for Moro’s head is no
answer to the unemployment question on
ground, holding our government
responsible and standing our ground until
something is done about unemployment
should be our collective agitation rather
than getting lost in the blame game. Not
even the automatic employment offers for
family members of the deceased and injured
applicants should pacify us.
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