JOS YOUTH’S UNEMPLOYMENT AND WAY OUT

 

Plateau state government has side-line Jos city, no meaning project, no good road and no standard market for the past year’s, Jos city was double alienated first, marginalised by the state government and secondly was been engulfed by the issue of settlers-indigene issues which often escalated crisis and  which keep on occurring and reoccurring. What could a youth of Jos site should do? To be educated and to be reasonable in other confront those challenges.

 

Unemployment simply means any resources that is not fully utilized but in these piece am referring to human resource precisely ‘THE YOUTH’. Man most work in other to survive and he has nothing but his labour power, which here by submits his power to the market, in search of his daily bread.

 

Nigeria has almost 163 million population according to population census(2004).70% of the population are below the age of 40 years, therefore apart from oil and other natural resources Nigeria has youthful and productive population. The disturbing trend in youth transformation in Nigeria is unemployment. According to the Federal Ministry of youth Development in an Administrative record shown that Nigeria generate about 4.5 million new entrant into the labour market annually and the labour market is often able to absorb only 10% and therefore living about 4 million people who are either unemployed or underemployed. This led to many social vices and crisis across the federation which include armed robbery, political thuggery, and other act of terrorisms.

 

It is obvious that youth unemployment crisis has substantially contributed to the nation high poverty incidence currently estimated that about 54.4% large number of the population living in abject poverty, because of growing divergence between economic growth(GDP), similarly in Jos city, poor quality of education, training  and skill development

 

The state government under the administration of governor jang,  banned commercial motorcycles in Jos and some local government area of plateau state, in other to cushion the menace of insecurity, which bring an agitations by angry youths to the extent that lives  and properties  of individuals was been vanish. The good will is that, the state government could have provide sufficient ‘kekenape’,  commercial car’s that would circulate the city, and other developmental and empowering youth   skills acquisitions centres., that would make them, self-employed.  Indeed most of our youth remained unemployed because ‘okada’ is the only means of self-sustenance to them; some has wives and children’s. yet a couple of mouth ago, MTN Nigeria closed its jos network centre which lead to another catastrophe to jos youth because hundreds of graduate remained idle at home with no job.

 

Plateau state government need to empowered the youth to provide job opportunities in other to make them busy because ‘an idle mind is a workshop of devil’. More so to remove the sentiment of enthnocentricism, also urge the Member state House of Assembly Jos North-North in person of BABS and Member National House of Assembly Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency in person of Suleiman Yahaya  as our only hope and heroes in plateau state to initiate Developmental Programmes that would up-lift Jos city and to revive the loose glory of democracy.