Jobs in Nigeria have been on a constant downward spiral.

From the SAP (Structural Adjustment Program) introduced by the regime of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida to the 7-point agenda of President Umaru Yar’dua, Nigeria’s economy has been reeling from irresponsible political leadership, high-level corruption, failing infrastructure, decomposition and elephant projects that do not have a useful or beneficial impact on society.

SAP’s policy brought down Nigeria’s already battered economy causing the famous ‘brain drain’. Overnight, quality Nigerian labor (doctors, engineers) left the country in droves to seek greener pastures abroad. Since the mid-1980s, Nigeria’s work environment has not improved, but rather worsened. Businesses, industries operating in Nigeria are daily groaning under the demonic yoke of doing business in Nigeria’s unfavorable business climate.

Without eleectricity. There’s no water. bad roads. Multiple taxation.

Industries in Nigeria suffer all this and more to operate in Nigeria. With such a hostile environment, it is not surprising that companies are moving out of Nigeria and those in the country are reducing their operations; lay off staff. Paradoxically, Nigeria’s universities produce tens of thousands of recent graduates each year, aggravating and stretching Nigeria’s already congested labor market to unimaginable limits.

In Nigeria, it has become a norm to see a 5-6 year old graduate wandering the street searching uselessly for non-existent vacancies and where there are any vacancies, the net salary is not even enough to take the taxi home. Unbelievably, the government at all levels in Nigeria seems clueless about the situation. For them it is business as usual. His neat posture is reminiscent of the naked King.

The resulting effects are the breakdown of everything and order, militancy in all parts of the country, the escalation of violent crimes and vices. And if the state of affairs penetrates, it entails great dangers for the Nation.