Chief Obasanjo |
The former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has
expressed fears that a time will come when Nigeria will witness a revolution if
government fails to address youths’ unemployment and poverty.
Speaking recently at the West African regional
conference on youth employment in Dakar, Senegal the former president said the
growing rate of unemployment among youths is alarming that the effects can only
be imagined.
He asserted that there is absence of serious,
concrete, realistic, short and long term solution to youth unemployment. He
revealed that the youth employment rate which was at 72 per cent in 1999 was
reduced to 52 per cent in 2004 and as at 2011 was at 71 per cent again.
Incentives to be created by national leaders
according to Obasanjo should include a special attention to agriculture
business as against mere farming.
Obasanjo said there is need for easy access to land
and micro credit, and the need to review the New Partnership for African
Development (NEPAD) in order to accommodate issues around youth unemployment
and job creation.
He also advocated the review of school curriculum
to enable undergraduates spend additional one year to learn entrepreneurship.
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