The Senate has reached a resolution to abolish age
limitations in job advertisements.
The senator representing Benue South senatorial district,
Patrick Abba Moro, sponsored the motion on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday.
“It is pathetic that a graduate in Nigeria who could not get
a job upon graduation and decided to go back to school with the hope that a
higher qualification or a second or Master’s degree could give him a better
employment opportunity is thrown into a career paradox when upon completion of
his Master’s, he comes out to find that he is now above the age of employment
and therefore not employable by the sole reason of his age,” Moro stated.
He said such discrimination is in contravention of Chapter
4, Section 42 (2), of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
He drew the attention of senators to the provisions of the
International Labour Organisation (ILO) that prohibit age placement in the
advertisement of job opportunities, adding that discrimination by age bracket
has denied lots of potential that would have contributed positively to the
world economy, insisting that Nigeria cannot be different.
The lawmaker stressed that at age 30, Nigerians can still
serve in the National Youth Service Corps, describing it as ironic that some
establishments consider people over 30 unemployable, a development he said is
in clear breach of applicants’ fundamental human rights.
He called on the Federal Ministry of Labour, Employment, and
Productivity to draw up policies that would enthrone equality immediately.
After debates on the motion at the plenary presided over by
the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, the Senate adopted a resolution calling
on the Labour Ministry to redraft policies abolishing age limitations in job
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The Federal Government themselves is the Architect of this nonsense, they place age limit of 26, and sometimes 28, many PhD graduates are roaming about the street now with no job.
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