Frustrated graduate burns all his certificates after failing to secure a job

Frustrated graduate burns all his certificates after failing to secure a job

- The inability to secure a job has led a young Nigerian graduate into burning all his certificates

- The man identified as Usman Abubakar tore the certificates into pieces before setting them ablaze

- Unemployment is one of the issues the country is battling with and Abubakar seems frustrated with it

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A young Nigerian graduate identified as Usman Abubakar has reportedly burnt all his certificates over inability to secure a job.

Part of the certificates burnt by the young graduate from Katsina state included the ones he obtained from the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), higher institution and secondary school.

The young man gathered all the certificates, tore them into pieces before setting them ablaze. Pictures of the ruined certificates have emerged on social media.

Frustrated graduate burns all his certificates after failing to secure a job
Usman Abubakar burnt all his certificates after failing to secure a job. Photo credit: Gistreel
Source: UGC

It should be noted that unemployment is one of the issues facing the country, and Nigerian youths are already thinking out of the box instead of waiting for white collar jobs.

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Nigerian youths are now acquiring skills even while in the higher institution so as to have something to fall back on if finding a job proves difficult.

In other news, a 33-year-old lady identified as Dr Helana Darwin has taken to Twitter to express sadness over being unemployed despite having two masters degrees and a PhD.

Dr Darwin said she feels like she went about her 20s all wrong, adding that higher education may be overrated.

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She wrote:

"How am I 33 with two MAs and a PhD and still so precariously situated on the job market? I feel like I went about my 20s all wrong... maybe-just maybe-higher education is overrated?"

According to her, being unemployed transcends disciplines, adding that it is systemic.

She wrote: "As a sociologist, I’d like to encourage everyone weighing in here to zoom out and resist neoliberal individualist discourses. This phenomenon transcends disciplines. It is systemic. It’s no one person’s fault.”

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Tunde Ososanya Tunde Ososanya, a former senior editor, is a graduate of Mass Communication from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism. He's passionate about what he does and finds fulfilment in informing the people. Ososanya is the author of Later Tonight: a Collection of Short Stories.

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