Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, has said that some graduates are unemployable because of the curriculum and skills that produced them.
Adeboye who was represented by Pastor Johnson Odesola made this statement at the sixth convocation of Redeemers University in Osun state.
He said “From a single university in 1948, there are now over 37 federal universities, 37 state universities and over 50 private universities, mostly offering general courses with some specialising in agriculture and technology.
“However, there are hardly enough jobs for the graduates, as well as the fact that some of the graduates are not employable by the curriculum and skills that produced them.
“We have problems with securing jobs for young people and most of our productive sectors, such as agriculture, mining, solid minerals and small scale industries are still primitive in approach to leverage on the evolving global technologies to compete favourably in the global market.
“These problems have persisted and burgeoning because the universities are largely out of synchronisation with the society. Hence, we need to generate initiatives, ideas and momentum to transform our society.
“Increasingly discovered in the labour market places, our universities continue to issue bland certificates to graduates who are barely literate, if we take literacy to be the ability to read and write.
“The education is bland and not tied to the need of the society. Education must be woven into life with a common thread running through life and society.”
Adeboye is not making any sense. Why should he blame graduate unemployment on outdated curriculum when many of the world’s top billionaires never even finished school? I mean, look at Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and so many others who are dropouts. Why should graduates be unemployed when there is always work to be done in our country. Is he saying that graduates are unable to sweep or mop floors? This gives Nigeria a bad name.