Unemployment: Formal Education Not An Automatic Ticket To Govt Jobs, President Buhari Tells Nigerian Youths

President Muhammadu Buhari has urged youths across the country to use their education and exposure to improve themselves and not see such as tickets to depend on the government for white collar jobs.

He said this on Wednesday during an interview with Channels Television.

He said;

“I wish when they go to school; when they work hard; when they earn their degree, they don’t do it thinking that government must give them jobs,” he noted.

“You get educated because an educated person is certainly better than an uneducated person even in identifying personal problems. So, education is not just meant to hang on to the government to give you jobs and then what the colonialists indoctrinated in us to believe – have a car, have a house; start work by 8:00 am and close by 2 pm.”