Topic: Nigerian graduates enough is enough it is unbearable!!

My people, I just noticed that we are focusing our attention on something else. They are some people who are here to distract, yet we give them listening ears. If you people are really down into this action, I believe we have to focus and discuss on the way forward. Before we know wetin go happen, october go reach and we end up being disorganised and failing to carry out the PEACEFUL protest. If you listened to the senatorial debate on the unemployment situation and on how to solve it, you people will just notice that those folks do not have any plan for us. Secondly, if you people had paid any attention to this BPE and their privatization wahala, you people will notice that OBJ, Atiku and their collaborators are the people that have put us in this condition. Thirdly if you people had listened to the ministerial screening, U will all notice that some ministers do not know the unemployment situation in this country ( some said 16%, some said 21%, one even went ahead saying 10%), just because they and their family members are comfortable. Let me specifically mention one's name, the current Minister of Labour and Productivity even went ahead to say that we are better than Uk and the US (so annoying). You people have seen that these guys do not know the condition many Nigerians are passing thru and we are here laying insults upon ourselves, instead of us to be organised like graduates. We are not militants, neither are we Boko Haram. Pllleeeeaaase I beg each and everyone of you to make +ve contributions for this protest and if you not interested, I suggest you should reserve your write up for something else (maybe for the 5 or 10 positions that any comapny will advertise in the future). Wait let people fight for you, so that you can come and enjoy, I just noticed that some graduates do not even know what is going on in this country, come to Abj and see people that cannot speak good English in commissions, ministries, agencies, house of assembly etc. all in the name of connection and man know man, even in the so called NNPC that one GMD will come out and make useless statements about Nigerian graduates and we are folding our hands and probably waiting for God to come down and fight for us. Wait you hear, mind U people I am not jobless. but what I am doing now is not what I am supposed to be doing, I need to build my career and so are some people who have missed their way. If U are in support, let us make good plans and suggestions, even yesterday in Global Business (AIT), someone came up on air and suggested that the youths are the people holding theirselves, that by the time they carry out a protest, the government will know that they are not sleeping. I dey use God dey beg una, if U are not interested, better stop commenting here, so that we can know where we are heading to, cos what I am seeing here is not helping matters at all. Thanks all for your understanding

so many opposition... some believe in an invisible hand to come and revive this crashing enclave...some said we are disorganized, others lamented we have a dumb intention, now i ask, why cant a graduate at my age boast of #10,000 in the bank, why cant i comfortably eat 2 square meals atleast, my shoes are flattened my shirts are faded my trousers are cheap and unfasionable... cant have my hair cut its too expensive...when i get sms invite forTest/interview i call my loyal friends 2 lend all my wears to package for d test, i see different class ofi graduates, many gatecrashers with forwarded sms and mails i say competition is tight., many are called few are chosen the rest are kicked back to d street indefinately...let me tell u this, Nigeria has no plan for no one! becos its clear it is not getting better, fellow graduates lets reason d road to d top in Nigeria is deadly but in unity we can surmount all heights.. its unbearable.

@emergency: I will not let off from telling you and others who care to reason that your agenda has failed. With this last post you have made it clear that yours is more of a personal issue than a social one. Does anybody need to be reminded that the original poster is just an aggressor and has shown the tendency to morph into a fifth columnist if this struggle were ever to make the slightest impact?

Give me the answer to this question: If you were to get your dream job today will you go ahead with your planned protest?

We need a honest answer lest you mortgage the future of well-meaning Nigerian youths for your selfish interest.
Just answer in a sentence of not more that 3 words (i will / I will not).

Originally Posted by emergency

so many opposition... some believe in an invisible hand to come and revive this crashing enclave...some said we are disorganized, others lamented we have a dumb intention, now i ask, why cant a graduate at my age boast of #10,000 in the bank, why cant i comfortably eat 2 square meals atleast, my shoes are flattened my shirts are faded my trousers are cheap and unfasionable... cant have my hair cut its too expensive...when i get sms invite forTest/interview i call my loyal friends 2 lend all my wears to package for d test, i see different class ofi graduates, many gatecrashers with forwarded sms and mails i say competition is tight., many are called few are chosen the rest are kicked back to d street indefinately...let me tell u this, Nigeria has no plan for no one! becos its clear it is not getting better, fellow graduates lets reason d road to d top in Nigeria is deadly but in unity we can surmount all heights.. its unbearable.

this is a metaphoric/typical story of a nigerian graduate i am not in any of such circumstance i served with a bank and am working as a research associate with a financial service firm, this is not my story... i cant stand seeing graduates feeding from hand to mouth it is a taboo

i have told u from the begining that u are just a complainer.pls stop all this complain and come up with what u want to do to actualise ur protest.how do u intend to get a police permit,a lawyer other activist etc.come up with something concrete.i have told u that u will learn.u are driven by a personal intrest and not a social one.pls anwer the simple question if u get a job with shell will u stil go ahead.tell us what u are doing to make the protest real.cos at the end of october u will come and say we discouraged u thats y u failed.

@obinna; in polictical economics social problem is an aggregate collection or sum total of individual problems so stop brandishing ur ineptitude. we .will make a difference! we will make our impact! come October 2011.

If you want your future posts with respect to this topic to make any sense then answer the simple question. In case you don't know it you have lost most of the little support you had up till you two previous posts.

Originally Posted by emergency

@obinna; in polictical economics social problem is an aggregate collection or sum total of individual problems so stop brandishing ur ineptitude. we .will make a difference! we will make our impact! come October 2011.

The thread is interesting, seeing you have turned the whole show to a cyber warfront of words; throwing tantrums at one another. It makes me really wonder how old many of you are. If you are above 35, you are protesting too late. If you are below , you know what to do but going it the wrong way.Read, and I'll tell you. At thirty-five, you don't have a job?! What have you been doing for heaven's sake?! Maybe you need to wait for another 35yrs.,then they'll employ you in the company of your dream. Wake up! Do something for your self.And doing something for yourself does not fall in line with the proposed protest. For even if it sails through, it 'may' not favour you. No self development?!
If you are below, your exuberance is eating up your sense of reasoning! You believe the government must give you a job. Don't begin to tell me you have something up in the head but 'capital' issue, then forgive me, you are not ready. Government is not designed to give jobs, the law of economics/economy will not allow it to work.
@emergency, we all feel the pangs of unemployment. Your venomous tone of approach to this issue is not helping you. At one breadth, your apologetic friends are saying peaceful demonstration, then from nowhere at another length, your vitreolic responses present the contrary.
Now tell me; when you get to Aso rock (come october 1st or 24th), that's if you are really able to get to 'Aso rock', what will you tell GEJ? ..."You must collect our cvs and give us jobs. And perhaps put ultimatum. And then, GEJ will really get so scared and and say to minister of labour and productivity "please collect these peoples' cvs and give them jobs oo, pls I don't want wahala oo.' Right? lol. Man wake up. America, the world leading economy and China have their own shares of unemployment bite. Unemployment is a lesser evil than when you are not pro-active about your own development.It is criminal. Yes criminal!!! You want to carry guns at the end of the day and kill our loved ones?! For it is obvious you will not easily hit your "targets" ,vis-a-vis the 'Bank'-'Oles'.
Protest is good but definitely not the way you are going it. Protest of this nature needs the backing of strong agencies and other pressure groups. I just can't hold myself back from reiterating this. Otherwise, the whole thing boils down to mockery of inteligence. All the same, one love!
Nigeria is bad, so many say,that means you are all bad. One bad apple does not make the lot maggot ridden. Nigeria is good, and that is because we have you and me fashioning ways to tackle out problem while not bringing her down to her knees. Employment may be blocked but not your intelligence! You'll never know how far you can go in life, unlocking that great potentials in you,...until you try.

I can see that people are not organized here, I asked for +ve suggestion on the way forward, yet nobody can say any useful thing that will encourage someone. I cannot work with a disorganized team. Most of you wants to be a leader, yet U pay attention to mere write ups and pour insults on youselves as if na una know gramma pass (abi na dat one dey give job?), probably later in your CV, you will now put "good leadership qualities". I have tried to curb this situation, yet you people are still into it. The funny thing is that about 95% of you people have never seen each others face for the first time, yet all these are happening. Well just to let the house know that I am out of this and I am no longer interested, until I see a character reformation here and a good sence of maturity, like the graduates we are. This is so annoying when I see graduates behaving like this. Let everybody go and pray, for you people's notice, there was never a time I advocated for violence, rather I always mention a PEACEFUL protest. I have more important things to attend to, take care and 9ce day

@iyke_jigga...ur positive impact on dis thread is so invaluble, we cant afford to let u go, u hav made it with us dis far to throw it all away,its just dat dere are bad people tryin to tear us apart.. we are sincerely sorry. we shall remain undistracted. we guarantee u.

I've been out for quite a while now attending to some other business. Actually, I've been thinking, assuming we are house of reps members or senators deliberating oh issues like this and we are acting like this towards each other; Men !!, what would the citizens and other countries think of us? It now hit me that we need to change our attitude towards each other and on that note i wish to apologize for any truly offensive action on my part towards anybody and advice that people should respectfully present their own opinion.

My reasons for supporting this protest (if peaceful) relies more on the future of this country than the present one, especially with our history and the recent happenings.

Militants didn't protest maybe because they've been crying to their community leaders or scared of facing firing squad from our not well trained police or military but their action almost put an end to earnings of this country and their voice was heard.

Boko haram for whatsoever reason didn't protest. Their actions almost put the whole security of the nation in jeopardy. Na our government dey go meet them to negotiate.

Graduates may not protest but as millions are pumped into this country annually and watch very few of their colleague get employed without as much as sweat leaving the bulk majority on their own. Millions travel long distances once or twice in a month to write test/interview for position opened for 5-10 people. Some of them borrow money for scratch cards (army. navy, NDLEA etc) only for their name not to appear or replaced by others (customs) who did not even apply. Some after being considered suitable for test were forced to write with touches and candles, instead of coming out to say that the positions is only open for their relatives and few, the government officials(NNPC) only results to insult them by saying that they are dummies etc. Some are even kicked out of their working places and treat as dirt because of no job security. I just wonder with some few revelations on this thread what they are up to after watching government who promised to create employment opportunities (direct or indirect) for them by building more refineries, fertilizer plant, ethanol plant, liberate power sector for more investors to come in etc, only for them to reverse back to importing petroleum products and paying subsidy on them for their benefits, continue with their so called constructing of more power plant and open up more agencies/ministries for their friends and relatives (dem no dey employ oo). I just pray that their action will not be worse than militants and boko haram because even if they are dumb, clowns or AY show partners they really knew how to get attention from Nigerian government.

So I urge you, before you pass your judgment consider this, if this people cannot get to government because of escort, firing squad, tear gas, who do you think they will turn to?

However, as you drive down that crooked road with that your fine car you so much worked for to earn, enjoy that powerful AC at your office after managing to secure that appointment or the one that your godfather gave to you, enjoy that company you so much invested your energy to set up or the one your Popsi left for you to manage, peform those transactions you do in your shop, your recharge card or herbal medicine stand, manage that your ministry(church) etc. Are you save with them roaming the street in hunger looking for something to do? Even if you are, what of your kids at school? It is only a foolish man who thinks that it is well because he is successful and the rest of his community is dying in penury.

Finally, i appeal to you my people let us not see this as a means of sabotaging or revolting against the present administration. Do not think that this will take away that position or comfortable situation you found yourself in. Our silence only means they are doing the right thing. Few people cannot accomplish this movement but believe me even their voice is not heard in this manner they will definitely cry out. How and when? Time will tell.

I REST MY CASE.