Vanguard· 1h ago· 1 min read
By SAM DAIBO
Nigeria has become a nation of training programmes. Every week, somewhere across the country, another graduation ceremony celebrates young people completing courses in coding, welding, agribusiness, fashion design, renewable energy or entrepreneurship. Governments launch new empowerment schemes. Development partners fund fresh skills initiatives. Companies proudly invest in youth capacity-building. Yet millions of Nigerians remain unemployed, underemployed or unemployable. If training alone created jobs, Nigeria should be experiencing an employment boom. Instead, we face an uncomfortable truth: Nigeria does not have a training deficit. It has an employment-system deficit.
For too long, we have treated unemployment as though it were simply a skills problem. We assume that once young people acquire technical knowledge, economic opportunities will naturally follow. But…
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