Two Nigerian graduates, Samuel Adekanbi and Olawale Anjorin, say Nigerian graduates are employable, countering statements that graduates of Nigerian universities are not employable.

They stressed that if youths are given the opportunity to work and earn a living, they would prove that they are employable and contribute to nation building.

Several organisations in Nigeria have said that young Nigerian graduates lack necessary skills that could give them jobs.

The development has led to increase in the number of unemployed youths  in Nigeria and security analysts have said that the increasing number of unemployed was contributing to the increase in crime rate.

Anjorin pointed out that the desperation to get a job led to the stampede at various centres of the Nigeria Immigration Service recruitment exercise.

The stampede led to the death of over 10 persons at the various centres.

On the issue of unemployment and crime in Nigeria, they pointed out that the Nigerian government had not accepted the fact that unemployment was the ‘father of insurgency’.

“Employing more young people in Nigeria will take the youths out of the street and they can contribute to the development of the nation,” Anjorin stressed.

The unemployment rate in Nigeria is increasing and the youths are beginning to look at creating jobs for themselves.

Adekanbi and Anjorin the two of them are self-employed and they said they had been making impacts in the life of individuals.

Adekanbi studied computer science while Anjorin studied Mathematics Education.

As much as many Nigerian unemployed graduates would like to be self employed, poor power supply and lack of access to funds are some of the challenges any one looking to set up a private business  face.

Anjorin said that if the government would provide the youths with basic amenities, it would help motivate young Nigerians to start-up something.