It is not new to Nigerian youths that there are various challenges to surmount to become a fulfilled
person in life. To gain admission to a university or other institutions of higher learning is a battle. After that is
fought and won, you have the battle of unemployment to fight. Though Nigeria is blessed with both human and
material resources, our leaders have not been able to utilize them in order to yield maximum economic benefits.
This and other factors identified in this paper have been the primary causes of unemployment in Nigeria. This
paper analyzed the costs and causes of unemployment on our graduates/youths, and provided useful recommendations
that will help to eradicate the monster called unemployment in Nigeria. The paper concludes that if the monies
looted by those in government were judiciously utilized in addition to the resolution of other identified factors in
fighting unemployment and infrastructural development, the state would not have been in its present bad situation
today.