YEBOAH BENJAMIN

Charlie, I hear say you get Job... My brother yess oooo, right now my money come... This was a conversation that went on between Abubakar and I two years ago... The next morning after the chat I heard my University friend Abubakar has committed suicide... Abubakar was my senior at the University of Ghana, infact he completed his national service  two years before I graduated and he was a first class student... After my national service, I was lucky to get a six months contract at my Uncle's work place... Abubakar has remained unemployed since 2013 and have been actively searching and has been facing  _the gentleman sorry no vacancy and the go and come next week stuff_ One evening when I was returning from this my shoddy work which earns me Ghc150 a month, I met Abubakar and we had that conservation... I don't know whether my friend took his life because of the conversation or his inability to secure a job for himself... I came to understand the situati...

Dear undergrads, I don't know if I should call this a letter or an advice... Many a years ago graduates were chased during graduation for an appointment into the big companies in the country... As time wore on, the story change where graduates will be holding brown envelopes filled with CV and certificates loitering and hovering around like scavengers... The question that came to mind was simple _Na who cause am_ Is it the system or nature made it so? Though it has become inevitable but casting my memory back successive government has show some  commitment in solving this issue bar a particular incompetent government who turn into deaf ears to the extent of placing an embargo on employment, failing to post nurses for three consecutive years leading to the birth of unemployment graduate and unemployment graduate nurses... I was a victim of unemployment. I graduated from the University of Ghana Business School in 2015 and got my first appointment as a supervisor in ...