“Nigerian Youths Are Unemployable”- Pantami Says

Isa Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy, says Nigerian graduates are unemployable and are too dependent on “government jobs.”

“The main challenge is not unemployment,” Mr Pantami stressed. “I am not discarding unemployment, but the major challenge is unemployability, a situation where I cannot be able to do the technical work that my certificate has stored that I have studied.”

He said this while at an official event on Tuesday, Feb 15.

Pantami added:

“As the situation is today, most of our young people after graduating from school are not in anyway thinking of entrepreneurship, they are only interested in looking for government employment.

The minister of communication and digital economy, reiterated that the country’s major challenge today is not unemployment but more of unemployability, stating that “there are many job opportunities in engineering, ICT, oil and gas but most of our youths with certificate if you employ them, you will discover that they will not be able to do the work you have employed them to do. So on daily basis foreigners are coming to Nigeria to come and do the job for us. Most of our technical people are engaged in administrative work, why we rely on other people to come and do the technical job.