Correct Answer: A. maintained her position

Correct Answer: D. scanty

Correct Answer: A. alienate his people

Explanation

VOCATIONAL TRAINING: A SOLUTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG YOUTHS.

Undoubtedly unemployment is one of the banes of our country. Unemployment is particularly common among the youths despite the fact that most of them are graduates of one higher institution or the other. It is assumed that most of the youths are unemployable. Though they are educated. unfortunately, they are educated to be job seekers only and not job creators or employers. What this means is that they are not trained to make use of their hands hence they graduate from higher institutions to become suitable for white collar jobs only. Consequently, most of them become frustrated after searching for white collar jobs for several years without success.

This situation can be reversed if vocational training can be encouraged in and out of our educational institutions. Vocational training is the training received on a particular trade or occupation. For example, girls can be trained to become hair dressers. photographers and so on while our boys can be trained to be barbers, dry cleaners and fashion designers. Training in different vocations is the only panacea to unemployment as any youth who has undergone such training won't have to look for somebody to employ him. He will want to establish himself in the business with the assistance he can get from the government and his parents.

Besides, a youth who is self-employed, due to the vocational training he has received, will train and employ other youths. Through this, the rate of unemployment in our society will be reduced. As a result of this, there will be less pressure on government as government will be able to divert its attention to provision of infrastructure that will facilitate creation of obs. Vocational training, in this way, will make it possible for most of our youths to be producers of goods and services which when purchased will make life comfortable for them.

Furthermore, through vocational training for our youths, many products like soap, detergent, pomade, air freshener and even hand set can be produced. This will make the country to become producers of goods which when improved upon can be exported to other countries of the world to earn foreign exchange for our country.

It is in the light of this that it is a matter of urgency for government to set up vocational centres in all the states in the country. This will enable the youths to come to these vocational centres to learn one trade or the other. Moreover, vocational training should be introduced in schools. This will give the youths the opportunity to learn one vocation or the other which they can fall back on when they are unable to get white collar jobs after graduation.

Vocational training is an efficient method of reducing unemployment through empowering youths economically by training them to use their hands to create job opportunities for themselves. If they are trained in one trade or occupation, they will establish small scale industries which will make them to be self-employed.

Dominic Adams.

SS 3A 1.

Correct Answer: B. a series of arguments on the report

Explanation

A confrontation which has gone on for a long time.

Correct Answer: D. be unduly influenced by others

Explanation

12, Bello Sola Street,

Off Aguda Lane,

ljullshaga.

Lagos. 22 May, 2006.

Dear Sumonu,

Compliment of the season. I hope you are doing fine. And how's your work, have you been moved to the company's Essex office as you wrote to tell us last month? We are all fine here in Nigeria. it is just that the economic situation in the country is not improving appreciably. Baba will be celebrating his Iwuye soon. we all hope you will come home then.

Sumonu, do you know that there has been a major reform in the telecommunications industry since the last time you visited the country. Just recently. the government gave licences to private investors to operate the Global System of Mobile Telecommunications, otherwise called GSM, in the country. With this introduction, communication has been made very easy. People can make and receive calls anywhere and at any time with their mobile phones. This change has brought about positive effects in the lives of the majority of the people. You need to be here to see what I'm talking about.

First, the cost of doing business in the country has been drastically reduced. People no longer pay exhorbitant fees to acquire a telephone line as was the case when NITEL was the only telecommunications service provider. As a result, prices of goods have gone down.

Secondly, the introduction of GSM services has reduced the crime rate in the country. Unlike before, people can easily call in security operatives, particularly the police. in an emergency situation as they now have access to phones; do you know that carpenters, shoemakers, tailors, now carry about GSM phones. This discourages crimes such as burglary and robbery as the criminals know that they can easily be caught if a victim or his neighbour calls in the police using their mobile phones.

The introduction of GSM has also reduced the rate of accidents on our roads, since people travel less. Before the introduction of GSM, people were forced to travel often, when a phone call could have taken care of or prevent such journeys, because they have no access to telephone. But now that GSM is readily available and relatively affordable, people find it easier to conduct their businesses, both private and official, on the phone and travel only when it is absolutely necessary.

GSM has also increased the knowledge base of the majority of the people. Most Nigerians are now better informed about local and international events, especially government policies, as news items and information are easily disseminated through the SMS (short message service) services provided, by the GSM operators. Thus, the mobile phone owner can get news items at minimal cost on his phone at any time of the day or night. Also, the introduction of GSM has greatly reduced the financial strain on many families who have relations abroad, as they can easily and speedily get in touch with those relations when they are in need of money. There are so men other. positive effects of the GSM but which I will not be able to enumerate here. Sumonu, I hope you will take advantage of this new technology by sending money to our parents to get their own GSM, so that we can easily and often communicate with you. I am sure with the GSM, even this letter I am writing would have been unnecessary.

Please extend my greetings to Bola and Bimbo. they must both be big now. I hope to hear from you soon.

Yours sincerely,

Gbenga

Correct Answer: C. match

Correct Answer: C. experts

Correct Answer: D. not interested in politics