The growing charge of unemployment, coupled with the biting financial hardship within the country, has forced most jobless Nigerians, including individuals who were retrenched from legitimate establishments into doing menial jobs simply to survive, leadership Weekend’s tests have discovered.
In keeping with a latest file by the national Bureau of records (NBS), Nigeria’s unemployment rate rose from 13.Three in keeping with cent in the 2d zone to 13.9 in line with cent within the third quarter of 2016.
The file stated that the range of unemployed from age 15 to 64, who for the duration of the reference length were presently to be had for paintings and actively searching for for work however had been with out paintings inside the labour pressure extended with the aid of 555,311 men and women.
In third quarter, the labour pressure population (the ones inside the working age populace willing, in a position and actively looking for work) expanded to eighty.Sixty seven million from seventy nine.9 million in second quarter. This represents an increase of 0.Ninety eight in line with cent in the labour pressure at some stage in the quarter.
Also, a document by the Bureau of labor facts confirmed that the countrywide unemployment fee stood at four.8 in keeping with cent through January 2017. This means approximately 227,000 jobs had been created in January 2017, and activity increase expanded in retail exchange, creation and financial activities.
Management Weekend learnt that a few Nigerians who had been relieved in their circular jobs decided to continue to exist by doing all forms of menial jobs, even though the jobs do not depict their requirements.
Our correspondent who visited a few hospitals in Lagos reports that graduates who hitherto labored in a single respectable organisation or the other have resorted to looking after unwell people within the hospitals.
People who spoke to our reporter but preferred now not to be named in print stated taking care of sick people become no longer a awful process in any respect whilst compared to the cash they make every day for the job.
One among them said, “I used to paintings in one of the banks in Lagos, however changed into suffering from the entrenchment that went on final 12 months. To start with, I puzzled how i'd live on as there are not any process out there; extra groups maintain sacking humans by means of the day and they may be not replacing them. I was sincerely scared that duration due to the fact I don’t want to squander the little money I had stored to date.
“One devoted day, I went with my buddy to visit his sick mom within the sanatorium and i noticed a person struggling to attend to his ill mom. I started out thinking at that point that i will do this job for folks that can’t be coming in the morning and night to attend to their ill ones.
“the next day, I came very early to the health facility and after I see those ones, I approached them and inform them of what i can do for them. A few would be so glad to hear that i'm able to genuinely deal with their ill ones. So that they don’t want to worry about coming to the sanatorium everyday. I gather N1,000 in keeping with day.”
As to how lots he makes ordinary, he said, “i'm able to stand up to 5 customers a day and this is N5,000 according to day. Sometimes, I make greater than that due to the fact the health center is usually bombarded with sick people. It is not clearly a horrific task in spite of everything, because I make a variety of cash from it whilst compared to what i used to be paid while i used to be running inside the financial institution”.
Others who spoke with management Weekend also showed that the recession turned into certainly a blessing to them due to the fact they wouldn’t have concept about doing menial jobs in the event that they were not sacked from their so referred to as white collar jobs.
They stated they're no longer ashamed of the process because it's miles what maximum Nigerians who travel overseas do. “They deal with sick ones in the hospitals or at their houses; we too are proudly doing the job here in our very own united states”.
Leadership Weekend additionally interviewed some Nigerians who wre pressured into retirement earlier than clocking forty years because of recession.
One Mrs Angela Okoh stated as a graduate working in a company, she was being paid N40,000 monthly, however that money wasn’t sufficient to take care of herself and her family.
She said, “when i was sacked, I started out my very own business. I supply constructing substances to businesses and occasionally paintings with avenue contractors. What I do is that I pass around looking for new homes after which technique the contractor and negotiate with him or her.
“I don’t have my own tipper to supply substances to building websites. I do rent vehicles and then supply the substances to them. I deliver my side of the deal and they pay me. If I do away with all costs, i'm able to make as much as N100,000 according to agreement. This is extra than the cash I acquired as earnings from my former agency.
“As I talk to you proper now, i've my very own building and my non-public car i use in transferring round looking for commercial enterprise. As for me, i really like to market my enterprise through going. To market my deliver offerings isn't a trouble for me, even when i'm became down, I persisted due to the fact it is what i love doing and subsequently it paid off”.
As for the unemployed Nigerian graduates who're waiting for authorities or white collar jobs, Okoh urged them to observe their ardour and start small. She stated, “You don’t necessarily want massive money to begin up a enterprise. As for me, I did now not have a tipper or truck, I go out and marketplace my services to contractors. When they supply me half of of the money I charged them for the process. I exploit that cash to lease truck, pay for the sand after which deliver them. The closing stability of the money could be my advantage. So I truely don’t need to spend my capital.”
also, some other retrenched Nigerian, Mrs Abimbola Yusuf stated she become part of those substantially suffering from the retrenchment that went on closing 12 months.
She said, “After i was relieved from my task, I went domestic and started deliberating what I should do. I determined to begin making cap wig/weavon and braiding. I will make and display them on my social media structures. Humans began noticing my product and start patronising me. I get clients from all over Nigeria.
“throughout the festive period, I had to employ girls to paintings for me because the task just demanding. I was even overwhelmed. The coolest part of it's far that I don’t pay for keep. I work from home and then deliver to folks that want them.”
In keeping with a latest file by the national Bureau of records (NBS), Nigeria’s unemployment rate rose from 13.Three in keeping with cent in the 2d zone to 13.9 in line with cent within the third quarter of 2016.
The file stated that the range of unemployed from age 15 to 64, who for the duration of the reference length were presently to be had for paintings and actively searching for for work however had been with out paintings inside the labour pressure extended with the aid of 555,311 men and women.
In third quarter, the labour pressure population (the ones inside the working age populace willing, in a position and actively looking for work) expanded to eighty.Sixty seven million from seventy nine.9 million in second quarter. This represents an increase of 0.Ninety eight in line with cent in the labour pressure at some stage in the quarter.
Also, a document by the Bureau of labor facts confirmed that the countrywide unemployment fee stood at four.8 in keeping with cent through January 2017. This means approximately 227,000 jobs had been created in January 2017, and activity increase expanded in retail exchange, creation and financial activities.
Management Weekend learnt that a few Nigerians who had been relieved in their circular jobs decided to continue to exist by doing all forms of menial jobs, even though the jobs do not depict their requirements.
Our correspondent who visited a few hospitals in Lagos reports that graduates who hitherto labored in a single respectable organisation or the other have resorted to looking after unwell people within the hospitals.
People who spoke to our reporter but preferred now not to be named in print stated taking care of sick people become no longer a awful process in any respect whilst compared to the cash they make every day for the job.
One among them said, “I used to paintings in one of the banks in Lagos, however changed into suffering from the entrenchment that went on final 12 months. To start with, I puzzled how i'd live on as there are not any process out there; extra groups maintain sacking humans by means of the day and they may be not replacing them. I was sincerely scared that duration due to the fact I don’t want to squander the little money I had stored to date.
“One devoted day, I went with my buddy to visit his sick mom within the sanatorium and i noticed a person struggling to attend to his ill mom. I started out thinking at that point that i will do this job for folks that can’t be coming in the morning and night to attend to their ill ones.
“the next day, I came very early to the health facility and after I see those ones, I approached them and inform them of what i can do for them. A few would be so glad to hear that i'm able to genuinely deal with their ill ones. So that they don’t want to worry about coming to the sanatorium everyday. I gather N1,000 in keeping with day.”
As to how lots he makes ordinary, he said, “i'm able to stand up to 5 customers a day and this is N5,000 according to day. Sometimes, I make greater than that due to the fact the health center is usually bombarded with sick people. It is not clearly a horrific task in spite of everything, because I make a variety of cash from it whilst compared to what i used to be paid while i used to be running inside the financial institution”.
Others who spoke with management Weekend also showed that the recession turned into certainly a blessing to them due to the fact they wouldn’t have concept about doing menial jobs in the event that they were not sacked from their so referred to as white collar jobs.
They stated they're no longer ashamed of the process because it's miles what maximum Nigerians who travel overseas do. “They deal with sick ones in the hospitals or at their houses; we too are proudly doing the job here in our very own united states”.
Leadership Weekend additionally interviewed some Nigerians who wre pressured into retirement earlier than clocking forty years because of recession.
One Mrs Angela Okoh stated as a graduate working in a company, she was being paid N40,000 monthly, however that money wasn’t sufficient to take care of herself and her family.
She said, “when i was sacked, I started out my very own business. I supply constructing substances to businesses and occasionally paintings with avenue contractors. What I do is that I pass around looking for new homes after which technique the contractor and negotiate with him or her.
“I don’t have my own tipper to supply substances to building websites. I do rent vehicles and then supply the substances to them. I deliver my side of the deal and they pay me. If I do away with all costs, i'm able to make as much as N100,000 according to agreement. This is extra than the cash I acquired as earnings from my former agency.
“As I talk to you proper now, i've my very own building and my non-public car i use in transferring round looking for commercial enterprise. As for me, i really like to market my enterprise through going. To market my deliver offerings isn't a trouble for me, even when i'm became down, I persisted due to the fact it is what i love doing and subsequently it paid off”.
As for the unemployed Nigerian graduates who're waiting for authorities or white collar jobs, Okoh urged them to observe their ardour and start small. She stated, “You don’t necessarily want massive money to begin up a enterprise. As for me, I did now not have a tipper or truck, I go out and marketplace my services to contractors. When they supply me half of of the money I charged them for the process. I exploit that cash to lease truck, pay for the sand after which deliver them. The closing stability of the money could be my advantage. So I truely don’t need to spend my capital.”
also, some other retrenched Nigerian, Mrs Abimbola Yusuf stated she become part of those substantially suffering from the retrenchment that went on closing 12 months.
She said, “After i was relieved from my task, I went domestic and started deliberating what I should do. I determined to begin making cap wig/weavon and braiding. I will make and display them on my social media structures. Humans began noticing my product and start patronising me. I get clients from all over Nigeria.
“throughout the festive period, I had to employ girls to paintings for me because the task just demanding. I was even overwhelmed. The coolest part of it's far that I don’t pay for keep. I work from home and then deliver to folks that want them.”