Dear unemployed USA graduate and unemployed UK graduate
Please do not for once contemplate going to demonstrate or protest the job situation in USA or UK .
You are graduates from ivy league institutions and Russel group institutions so you do not quarrel with problems .you solve them.
These are trying times and tough times but as some have said tough times never last tough people do.
It should be innovation and not lamentation. To use the words of the ex Nigerian vice president professor yemi osinbajo innovation is everything. Let innovation pervade everything you are doing
What more professor yemi osinbajo affirms we have enough of pilot projects what we have to do is to scale up.
How can you scale up literarily and figuratively pilot projects in usa and UK to the rest of the world. As a good example memory and literacy as an example the Islamic world has 1.9 billion children who can barely read or write ✍️ and then there are 1.9 bilion effected by neglected Tropical Diseases due to poverty squalor ignorance and 4contaminated water uiu have the libraries. The institutions and the education and personal to solve these problems. There are 989 billionaire's in USA with a networth of 20 trillion dollars.
I want you to take a cue from Africa's most respected man of God Pastor Enoch Adeboye he is a top notch mathematician.in his own words a problem defined is half solved. What's more you move from real analysis to complex analysis to vectorial analysis and beyond. It means you do not give up.
Or in the words of Sidney Newton brewer: a quitter never wins and a winner never quuts.
Dear USA graduates.what did you study? Dear UK graduate what did you study, there is nothing like a useless discipline. You see what yiu want to see.
Now let's take a break and look at some problems waiting to be solved in nigeria.
1 Nigeria has the worst rate of road accident in the world.
2 worst acess to electricity world wide
3 terrible incidence of neglected Tropical Diseases
4 170 miliion nigerians exposed to killer water otherwise known as contaminated water
5 How can you bring the 24 miliion millionaires in usa to adopt 20 miliion Nigeria's children out of school. It's doable. Notable mission impossible. Have you tried? No harm trying. Nothing ventured. Nothing gained.
I do not want to spoil your day but I would recommend that you read the Nigerian newspapers every day. Namely The Guardian .Thisady punch vanguard Nigerian tribune nation news chronicle. Sahara reporters daily trust leadership and premium times and more.
There could be collaboration partnership and cooperation berwen you and other Nigerian graduates. The team is greater than the sum of it's part. Perhaps you and ngerian graduates could do somethings together. You should not be operating in silos. You are all struggling to settle your rent for living on planet Earth to the words of nigerias first woman Professor Adetowun Ogunsheye
In this way life may Perhaps have meaning for you and you may Perhaps find your purpose.trust me! I am just a click away.i would write again
But before I move on count your blessings one by one.!
Signed
Augustine Togonu Bickersteth London England 🇬🇧 may 23 2 2026
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