Mr. Inuwa Bwala, Chairman of Hawul Local Government region in Borno, has stated that the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, has identified 13,394 unemployed graduates in the region.
Bwala stated this in Hawul yesterday while praising NDE for undertaking the enumeration exercise in the area.
According to him, the number included graduates with a Bachelor’s degree, a Higher National Diploma, an ND, and a National Certificate of Education, an NCE.
Bwala raised concern over the growing number of unemployed youths and called for urgent measures to tackle the problem, adding: “A society with such a large population of unemployed people is only delaying the evil day.” He urged youths in the area to explore ways of getting self-employed, instead of roaming the streets after graduation looking for government jobs.
The chairman said that his council would write to the Borno government for employment opportunities for the graduates, even as volunteer teachers on a monthly stipend. He said Gov. Zulum recently ordered the employment of such a category of unemployed youths in the education sector, saying that Hawul had many of these qualified youths.