{"id":123237,"date":"2023-11-25T04:07:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T04:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/"},"modified":"2023-11-25T04:07:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T04:07:15","slug":"start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Start Your Businesses, Era Of Government Jobs Is Fading&#8221; \u2013 Shettima Tells Nigerian Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-899877\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<p>Vice President Kashim Shettima has challenged graduates of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) to embrace entrepreneurship and self-employment instead of waiting for government jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Shettima made this known on Saturday at the 24th combined convocation ceremony of UNIMAID, where he was also conferred with an honorary doctorate degree.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the era where graduates solely relied on the government for employment and answers to all their problems was over and encouraged them to utilise their entrepreneurial training in starting up a business and positively impacting society.<\/p>\n<p>Shettima said: \u201cEvery success in life brings with it challenges. You are graduating today, our nation is faced with myriads of problems. I believe the university has adequately prepared you to contribute to proffering solutions to these problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0\u201cIf You\u2019re A Jobless Graduate, Go And Learn Skills\u201d \u2013 Igbokwe Tells Nigerian Youths<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-12\">\n<div class=\"c-ad \">\n<p>\u201cThe era when graduates look up to the government for answers to all problems is fast fading. I encourage you to specifically utilise your entrepreneurial training in the university to decide your employability status.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStart an enterprise, no matter how small your capital or idea is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"td-block-row td-post-next-prev\">\n<div class=\"td-block-span6 td-post-prev-post\">\n<div class=\"td-post-next-prev-content\"><span>Previous article<\/span>\u201cGive Us MohBad\u2019s Body For Burial\u201d \u2013 Tonto Dikeh Tells Police<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td-block-span6 td-post-next-post\">\n<div class=\"td-post-next-prev-content\"><span>Next article<\/span>Yobe: Boko Haram Attacks Gov. Buni\u2019s Convoy, Injure Security Personnel<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kashim Shettima has challenged graduates of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) to embrace entrepreneurship and self-employment instead of waiting for government jobs. Shettima made this known on Saturday at the 24th combined convocation ceremony of UNIMAID, where he was also conferred with an honorary doctorate degree. He said that the era where graduates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Start Your Businesses, Era Of Government Jobs Is Fading&quot; \u2013 Shettima Tells Nigerian Graduates - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Start Your Businesses, Era Of Government Jobs Is Fading&quot; \u2013 Shettima Tells Nigerian Graduates - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vice President Kashim Shettima has challenged graduates of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) to embrace entrepreneurship and self-employment instead of waiting for government jobs. Shettima made this known on Saturday at the 24th combined convocation ceremony of UNIMAID, where he was also conferred with an honorary doctorate degree. He said that the era where graduates [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-25T04:07:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Kashim-Shettima-at-UNIMAID-Convocation-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"986\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"582\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"Start Your Businesses, Era Of Government Jobs Is Fading\\\" \u2013 Shettima Tells Nigerian Graduates - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Kashim-Shettima-at-UNIMAID-Convocation-2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-25T04:07:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-25T04:07:15+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Kashim-Shettima-at-UNIMAID-Convocation-2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Kashim-Shettima-at-UNIMAID-Convocation-2.jpg\",\"width\":986,\"height\":582},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"&#8220;Start Your Businesses, Era Of Government Jobs Is Fading&#8221; \u2013 Shettima Tells Nigerian Graduates\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74\",\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ghana News\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/author\/ghanamma\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\"Start Your Businesses, Era Of Government Jobs Is Fading\" \u2013 Shettima Tells Nigerian Graduates - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\"Start Your Businesses, Era Of Government Jobs Is Fading\" \u2013 Shettima Tells Nigerian Graduates - Ghanamma.com","og_description":"Vice President Kashim Shettima has challenged graduates of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) to embrace entrepreneurship and self-employment instead of waiting for government jobs. Shettima made this known on Saturday at the 24th combined convocation ceremony of UNIMAID, where he was also conferred with an honorary doctorate degree. He said that the era where graduates [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/","og_site_name":"Ghanamma.com","article_published_time":"2023-11-25T04:07:15+00:00","og_image":[{"width":986,"height":582,"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Kashim-Shettima-at-UNIMAID-Convocation-2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Ghana News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ghana News","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/","name":"\"Start Your Businesses, Era Of Government Jobs Is Fading\" \u2013 Shettima Tells Nigerian Graduates - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Kashim-Shettima-at-UNIMAID-Convocation-2.jpg","datePublished":"2023-11-25T04:07:15+00:00","dateModified":"2023-11-25T04:07:15+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Kashim-Shettima-at-UNIMAID-Convocation-2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Kashim-Shettima-at-UNIMAID-Convocation-2.jpg","width":986,"height":582},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/25\/start-your-businesses-era-of-government-jobs-is-fading-shettima-tells-nigerian-graduates\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"&#8220;Start Your Businesses, Era Of Government Jobs Is Fading&#8221; \u2013 Shettima Tells Nigerian Graduates"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74","name":"Ghana News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ghana News"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/author\/ghanamma\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}