Unemployed Graduates find succour at Computer Village, Ikeja Lagos, Nigeria.

With graduate unemployment growing by the day, the Nigerian Silicon valley, the Computer Village Ikeja has continued to provide succor to the graduates who ordinarily would have been roaming the streets of major cities looking for white collar jobs. 


Although the take home pay of these young graduates is nothing to write home about, a close monitoring of market activities last week in the largest African ICT market showed that these graduates are just hanging on the job because most of these jobs are out of their career line. 


Major ICT vendors where these graduates have been employed, according to CyberLIFE findings include, IT World Limited, Brian Integrated Systems, Slot Systems, Gafunk, Tripplesea, Capitol, among others. Further findings also revealed that the largest African IT market, the Computer Village Ikeja, which has continued to be the toast of foreign vendors has been a saving grace to these graduates who could have gone into prostitution and armed robbery said to be on the high side by the as a result of surging unemployment across the country. 


Majority of these graduates, according to findings are mostly young ladies while their male counterparts are self employed. One of the busy streets in the Computer Village Ikeja, Lagos “But what can we do? We have no option other than to engage the mind. There is no job offer now. 


I have worked in one of the IT firms in this market for a number of years . I am not looking at the pay. I am only hanging on the job to get another job. I am not getting job satisfaction because i read Biochemist” Nneka Anogu, a female young graduate told CyberLIFE in an anonymous ground during a chat last Monday in the market. According to her, most graduates employed in these IT firms are not supposed to be working there if given a choice. 


For Ikenna Odegwu, who said that he read Economics at the University of Lagos, a lot of graduates are just living from hand to mouth. “I will prefer to do black job abroad and get paid than working in the computer village as a cashier. Unfortunately, these IT vendors here use us as slaves. They pay us peer-nut even as we work from Monday through Saturday. It is amazing but we do not have option now” he said.