WHY NIGERIAN GRADUATES ARE UNEMPLOYABLE -FUTA VC

The Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Prof. Biyi Daramola, says Nigerian graduates are unemployable due to the lack of self discipline and commitment to vigorous academic pursuit.
The FUTA V.C said this in a lecture entitled; "The Role of Science and Technology in Human Resource Management", he presented at the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, on Thursday.
He spoke at a forum organised by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria. The Professor of Agricultural Economics said it was regrettable that many Nigerian graduates could not secure jobs after years of applications.
He said that the lack of exposure to science and Technology was also a major factor responsible for their plight. He also said it was high time the country's education curricula be fashioned in a manner to make mathematics compulsory for all courses at all levels.
This, he said, would boost students' interests in science and technology from their tender ages.
Daramola urged governments to ensure proper funding of science and technology at all levels of the academic cadre, adding that "they should also help in the establishment of monotechnics and polytechnics or universities of technology that would expose students to skills acquisition.
"Over the years, Nigerian education policies have recognised the importance of science-based courses in the nation's education curricular and thus pursued the policy of giving more attention to science-oriented courses during admissions into the nation's tertiary institutions."  =====Source