Unemployment: Graduates smile to banks washing cars in Kaduna

Graduates have taken over most car wash businesses in Kaduna, Kaduna State metropolis to end their endless search for formal jobs, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
A correspondent of the agency who went round the city reports that the operators were making brisk business and smiling to the banks.
Julius Samba, a graduate of the University of Maiduguri, who operates a car wash centre at Poly Gate, said he ventured into the business when he realised he was wasting his “precious time searching for non existing jobs”.
According to Samba, he washes as much as 25 cars on a good day and now makes between N80,000 and N100,000 a month.
He said: “I would not go to work for anyone if offered a job now, with eight persons working for me.”
Kelechi Humphrey, who graduated from the University of Abuja in 2009 and now runs a car washing outfit at Barnawa area of the city, said he makes as much as N120,000 a month.
Humphrey told NAN that he charges between N300 and N500 depending on the type of car and makes an average of N4,000 daily.
Humphrey advised unemployed youths to utilise their time positively, instead of resorting to acts that would be inimical to their future.
John Vatt, a patron, said his street was bad and he needed to wash his car before going out everyday.
Vatt commended the initiative of the youths in setting up car wash businesses.
Another patron, Ahmed Usman, said car wash centres were contributing significantly to reducing unemployment and urged the government to create a special fund to support them.