House of Representatives Rejects Bill to Give Unemployed Graduates Allowance ( Pls Share Your Point Of View)

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The House of Representatives on Wednesday threw out a bill seeking to provide monetary incentives to all unemployed graduates in Nigeria.
The bill, which was sponsored by Arua Arunsi (PDP, Abia), sought to amend the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) Act 2004 to cater for unemployed graduates of tertiary institutions who could not secured employment.
Mr Arunsi had argued that the bill was to design and implement programmes to combat mass unemployment for graduates that are between the ages of 18 to 35 years and also between third to fifth year of post-graduation experience.

Most of the lawmakers present at the chamber stoutly opposed the second reading of the bill on the ground that it failed to meet critical criterion of filling gaps inherent in the existing laws it was seeking to amend.

Many Nigerian graduates need retraining –Deru

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Femi Deru is a former president of the Lagos State Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In this interview with SIMON EJEMBI, he talks about issues relating to employment such as mismatch of skills

The International Labour Organisation recently published a report which says skills mismatch is affecting job creation. How does this happen?

Before you can have a skill, you must have gone through some training and that training requires you to have either been in a university – training to be X, Y, Z. If you are a doctor and you are looking for a job, you go to the hospital. If you are a specialist, for instance, there may be a mismatch for you because you may not get the type of job you need in Nigeria because of the special skill that you have got. That is an example of how the problem of a mismatch of skills may arise.