Highlighting the high unemployment rate in Nigeria, six Doctorate and 704 Master's degrees holders are among the over 13,000 people who have applied to work as truck drivers in the country's largest industrial conglomerate, the Dangote Group.
Also among the applicants for the post of 'Graduate Executive Truck Driver' are 8,460 Bachelor's degree holders, the private Vanguard newspaper repoted.
The paper quoted the Chairman of the company, richest Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, as saying the company only needed 100 drivers, but received the overwhelming applications.
He also said most of the applicants were from reputable universities and had the needed quality.
'All these things are verifiable, and they all graduated from reputable institutions which is satisfactory; and our plan is to eventually make them self dependent.
'Despite the fact that the drivers get trip allowances on each trip along with their salaries, the arrangement is that they will own the trucks at no interests or repayments after they must have reached 300,000 kilometres, which is about 140 trips from Lagos to Kano and a hard working driver can complete in two years, while lazy ones can take maximum of four years,” he said.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria's unemployment rate at the end of 2011 stood at 23.9%.
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