1 It is not true that there are no jobs. The truth is that there are jobs but most Nigerian graduates lack appropriate skills to add value to the global ecosystem. The current university education curricula are mostly outdated and cannot help the graduate in job placement without extra industry-required skills. The focus of the graduates is to acquire certificate or degree not Skills that will help him to be useful in the industry. Therefore for Nigerians who need a job or want to change his or her job should take the 7 skills of fortune we identified above seriously.
2 Digital Government: Government should use technology by automating a lot of its activities that are currently been done manually. This will bring down the cost of governance substantially. Also things like taxation, business registration should be digitize.
3 SETTING UP CYBER SECURITY COMMNAD CENTRE (CSCC): As at today Nigeria lives in a house with its doors and windows wide open for foreign hackers to come in and steal its information. There is no standing national CYBER ARMY OR WARRIOR on the ground that can defend Nigeria interest at the speed of light. The time has come for Nigeria federal government to set up a cybersecurity command centre. Cyber war is more difficult to win than the conventional war because the enemies are faceless and virtual. They are everywhere without been seen!
4 SMART CITY: Federal government can make Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt and other sensitive cities in Nigeria smart cities. This will combat terrorism and make investors’ confidence to remain solid in the commercial axis of Nigeria.
5 BIOMETRICS REGISTRATION OF ALL CITIZENS: Government can save a lot of money by doing biometrics registration in the country. Biometrics registration will help government agencies address terrorism, help weed out fraud in the financial system by tracing sources and destinations of illicit monies, sanitise the banking system and help citizens to access bank loans. The biometrics registration should be used for future election. This will solve the problem of election rigging
6 E-LEARNING TO THE RESUCE OF 80% OF THE YOUTHS: NUC should free the e-learning space to accommodate the 80% of Nigerian youths that are yearly denied university admission due to lack of space in the traditional brick and mortal universities. With e-learning, these youths that will otherwise end up as touts or at best political-dogs or thugs of politicians can have some chance of success in life if they can study at home. The argument that the quality of graduates who study at online universities will be watered down in Virtual universities does not hold water because the market will determine at the end of the day which among the graduates are suitable for employment.
7 VIRTUAL ALIEN: If government adopt this strategy and build a framework to make it happen we can get over 1million Nigerian unemployed graduates to work abroad without leaving the shores of Nigeria using the power of technology. This will reduce the graduate unemployment and social friction that leads to terrorisms and suicide bombing. Everything is possible …