[AR] Al-Thaqafah al-‘Arabiyyah wa Tahaddiyat al-Batalah fi Janub Nijiriya al-Gharbi: Waqi’ wa Hulul

Arabic Education and the Challenges of Unemployment in South-Western Nigeria: Reality and Solutions

Abstract

Millions of adult around the world desire good paying jobs so they can earn income, live and retire in comfort, while good jobs are guaranteed in many advanced countries, some cannot be said for many Nigerian citizens. For years, millions of able-bodied adults in the nation have been continually denied the basic opportunity to word for living. And this is due to the very high unemployment rates prevalent across the nation as it was in most of African nations especially the six with highest rate of unemployment such as South African with rate 35.30%, Nigeria with 33.30%, Lesotho with rate 24.60%, Gabon with rate 22.30%, Somalia with rate 19.8% and Tunisia with rate 16.10% according to the analysis of National Bureau of Statistics. This article tends to study the situation of unemployment among the Arabic graduates in the Western Nigeria with the aim of discovering the reality of factors that might have led to that there by profound the solutions aftermath. The research adopts a descriptive analytical method. The research findings are: that the rate of unemployment in the Western part of Nigeria is the least, despite that unemployment is very common among the graduates of Arabic language, that the factors responsible for unemployment among the graduates of Arabic in the region is between political, economic, and social, and the great one is incompetence of those students in English, that unemployment is the cause of reduction of students of Arabic in the higher institutions of learning in the region, that the combining Arabic language/studies with other social courses will create room for national and international job opportunities for the graduate, that corruption and selfishness play major room in the high rate of unemployment, the researchers suggest that the nation should play his role in fighting unemployment and that could be done through the effort of government to develop economy, that the lecturers should encourage their students to uphold English language as they did to Arabic, because it is a means of securing good employment, a lecturer should also shoulder the responsibility of sensitizing the secondary school students on the future job opportunities for graduate of Arabic studies in different companies, factories and the national and international agencies and they should train them toward that, the lecturers should also discuss the marginalization of Arabic studies with other courses with the Federal Ministry of Education and National University Commission, therefore, make sure that it is included and implemented in the policy of education.