Vocational and Technical Education : A Solution to Unemployment among Graduates in Nigeria

This study is designed to examine vocational and technical education among youth unemployment, mostly graduates in Nigeria as well as the causes and implications. Youths are very important stakeholder in any society. They are not only the future hope of Nigeria, but also a major stakeholder and very useful resource in nation building. However, available information indicates that youth unemployment is very common in Nigeria with far reading implications for stability of the economy. Unemployment has a negative multiplier effect not only on the individual involved but on the nation as a whole. This study identified some causes of youth unemployment in Nigeria such as, negative impression on technical and vocational education, total neglect of the agricultural sector, poor educational planning and poor enabling environment. Youth unemployment has been identified as one of the core causes of the rising level of social disorder and insecurity permeating the entire country of Nigeria. This paper therefore concludes that addressing the problem of youth unemployment must involve all the stakeholders and that effective policy means uses such as re-priorization of the Agriculture sector, reformation of education system and provision of enabling Environment that will drastically reduce unemployment and poverty should be adopted to eradicate the menace of youth unemployment.