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With over 200 tertiary institutions, Nigeria graduates over one million students annually. Research has shown that only about 10% of the graduated numbers get employed. Also, a mere fraction of that percentage gets employed in the industry they desire or are happy about. About 20% are compelled by their realities to indulge in odd exercises that provide them with survival on a daily basis.
Thus, about 70% of our annual graduates from the tertiary institutions remain unemployed and are therefore, left to cope with the attendant psychological problems of unemployment depression, bitterness, inferiority complex or diminishing self-esteem and outright loss of self-confidence

Research has also shown that the problems of constant increase in the number of unemployed graduates take severe toll on our propensity to develop. It stagnates industrial capacity as the human resources imperative for driving industrialisation and technological advancement is stagnated. It also engenders redundancy with the implication of encouraging negative emotions among the youths resulting in restlessness and an unstable state of security. The fallout is the lack of an enabling environment for investors or an investor’s friendly environment. The cyclical implication of this state of affairs is a further entrenchment of the unemployment crises.

Faced with these hostile conditions, what are the options left for the Nigerian graduate in ensuring that he overcomes his economic challenges by adopting decent, reasonable and civilised initiatives? How do they transform their appalling realities and indulge in social engineering and development as useful members of society

THE AFTER-CAMPUS YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT AS A SOLUTION-BASED APPROACH

The After-Campus Youth Empowerment Project is directed at resolving the crises and impact of lingering unemployment for our youths most of whom remain unemployed after ten years of graduation. It is a proactive response which is designed to address the hopelessness which confronts the Nigerian youths after school, an absurdity which accounts for the disillusion between them and the society.

VISION

The vision is in two folds:

1.   To turn the landscape of graduate unemployment from near-hopelessness into one of useful employment and occupation, renewed hope and eagerness to contribute to the upliftment of the nation

2.   The harnessing of precious youthful energy and channelling it into positive fields of achievements.

CONCLUSION
The After-Campus Youth Empowerment Project if implemented in its total scope, would effectively respond to the crises of youth restiveness, which has pervaded the entire country and assumed a dimension of their consequences for national security in the Niger Delta. It will also effectively respond to the building of the metaphysical capital of our youths, imbuing them with the requisite mindset for moral rearmament. It will, in that regards constitute a major panacea for advancing national development, particularly in building small-scale entrepreneurship, enhancing the informal sector and providing the platform for the advancement of our country towards self-reliance.