Social Problem: Unemployment

 

     Unemployment.

Along with the problem, unemployment is also widespread in Nigeria. It is indeed, common to all the countries of the world whether they are industrially advanced or not. An international labour expert commented; (in September 1992) – “About 400million new workers are expected to enter the world’s labour force this decade and prospects of finding jobs for all of them are gloomy”. The Finnish directors of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) employment departments, the problem of unemployment has remained intractible even in the developed economies of the world namely, U.S.A, France, Germany to mention but these few. Being employed makes one happy. Awake (1983) stated that meaningful employment could bring happiness, makes one wanted and needed. He further argued that people acquire certain skills so that they could be employed and be able to provide for their needs and that of the family, but unemployment seems to step in and dash this hope. Unemployment is one of the social problems in Nigeria which has assumed a greater dimension with the emergence of "black god" that is crude oil, as every young school leavers had to abandon the village in search of employment in the Urban centers. Government on her also forget Agricultural sector, which was the mainstay of the economy in the 1960s.

Social Problem: Corruption Monster

Introduction

Social problems in general, deals with aspect of social life, seen to warrant concern and intervention i.e. Crime, Poverty, Drug Abuse, Prostitution, Domestic Violence etc. social problem is associated with economy factors, such as Poverty, Unemployment etc. there are social problems associated with cultural factors – Divorce, Juvenile Delinquency. Also, it is associated with biological factors i.e. Food poisoning, infection’s diseases. A psychological factor is also involved in social problem in the form of Neurological (Cultism). 





               Corruption

“As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.” Jeremiah 17:11.

There is a variable which keep re-occurring in Nigeria. The variable is “Corruption”. Corruption is the reason for the unavailability of drugs and modern medical equipment’s in our hospitals. It accounted for the pot holes and fails portions on our high way which claim the lives of Nigerian in their thousands on annual basis. It is the reason for the dilapidated and lack of infrastructures in our tertiary institutions. This is also the reason for the avoidable deaths of our infants, children and expectant mothers in thousands yearly, because of the inadequacy of maternal and child heath supporting facilities. Corruption is the reason why our refineries and the power sectors are not working. The contracts for the provisions of these facilities have been awarded on paper; over and over again, even at inflated cost and the monies appropriated for their provisions have gone into some private pockets. Corruption has accounted for the high rate of unemployment and poverty in the Nigeria .

Terrorism And Insecurity In Nigeria.

1.      Terrorism and Insecurity in Nigeria

National security is a premise for national economic growth and development of nations. This is because peaceful nations attract foreign investors while the domestic investors freely operate the economy with little or no tensions and apprehensions. Security is the pillar upon which every meaningful development could be achieved and sustained. Nigeria as a nation state has witnessed unprecedented series of agitations in the forms of kidnapping and abduction, armed robberies, bombing, and carnages of all forms and magnitude in the past decade and a half. The most dastard so far is the activities of a group of some Islamic militants that called themselves the ‘Boko Haram’, interpreted to mean ‘western education is evil’. With the coming to the scene by Boko Haram in 2002, the insecurity situation in Nigeria seemed to have assumed higher and more complex dimensions. A part from the frequency and intensity of deadly attacks and carnages, insecurity situation in Nigeria cuts across cities, towns and villages that there is hardly anywhere to run to for cover. Lives and properties are not safe for urban dwellers as well as for the rural dwellers. People live in apprehension almost every day. Terrorism is of both national and international concern. This is because their activities most times are not concentrated in a particular place. Its waves span across geographical boundaries both local and international.

Work On It Before The Graduation Day.

Things to work on before graduating

 1.  SPOKEN ENGLISH

It is sad that majority of Nigerian students in tertiary institutions don’t bother about polishing their spoken English and written English. Some graduates worse than a toddler, making one wonder that they spent 16 years doing in school. You hear them spew gabbage like “he come and slap me and I come and beat him”. If you speak such English to an interviewer, even with first class clearly written on your CV, he/she will probably think you runzed your way through school. The use of words like yeah, goddamn, omo, sh*t, f**k etc should be stopped because, they don’t portray you as a decent person.