Fwd: Letter to the unemployed usa graduates and UK graduates by Augustine Togonu Bickersteth London England 🇬🇧 may 23 2026

[Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth]

Dear unemployed USA graduate and unemployed  UK graduate 

Please do not for once  contemplate going to demonstrate  or protest  the job situation  in  USA  or UK .

You are graduates from  ivy league institutions and Russel  group  institutions so you  do not  quarrel  with  problems   .you solve them.

These are trying  times  and tough  times  but as some have said  tough  times never last tough  people  do.

It should  be innovation  and not lamentation. To use the words  of the ex Nigerian  vice president  professor  yemi osinbajo  innovation  is everything. Let innovation  pervade everything  you are doing 

What more  professor  yemi osinbajo affirms  we have enough  of pilot projects  what we have to do  is to scale up.

How can you scale up  literarily  and figuratively  pilot  projects  in usa and UK to the rest of the world. As a good example  memory and literacy  as an example  the Islamic world  has 1.9 billion  children  who  can barely  read or write ✍️  and then  there  are 1.9 bilion  effected  by neglected Tropical Diseases  due to poverty squalor  ignorance  and 4contaminated  water  uiu have the libraries.  The institutions  and the education  and personal  to solve  these problems.  There are 989 billionaire's  in USA  with a networth  of 20 trillion dollars. 

        I want you  to take  a cue from  Africa's  most respected  man of God  Pastor  Enoch Adeboye  he is a top notch  mathematician.in his own words  a problem  defined  is half solved. What's more you move from real  analysis  to  complex analysis  to vectorial analysis  and beyond. It means  you do not  give up.

Or in the words  of Sidney  Newton  brewer: a quitter never wins and a winner never  quuts.

Dear  USA graduates.what did you study? Dear UK graduate  what did you study, there  is nothing  like a useless discipline. You see what yiu want to see.

Now let's take a break and look at some  problems  waiting  to be solved  in nigeria.

1 Nigeria has the worst rate of road accident in the world. 

2 worst acess to electricity  world wide

3 terrible  incidence of neglected Tropical  Diseases 

4 170 miliion  nigerians exposed to killer water otherwise known as  contaminated water 

5 How  can you bring the 24 miliion  millionaires  in usa to adopt  20 miliion  Nigeria's children out of school. It's doable. Notable  mission  impossible. Have you tried? No harm  trying.  Nothing  ventured.  Nothing  gained.

I do not want to spoil  your day but I would  recommend  that you read the Nigerian newspapers  every day.  Namely  The Guardian  .Thisady punch vanguard   Nigerian tribune  nation  news chronicle. Sahara  reporters daily  trust  leadership  and premium times  and more.

     There could  be collaboration  partnership  and cooperation  berwen you  and other  Nigerian graduates. The team is greater  than the sum of it's  part. Perhaps  you and ngerian graduates  could  do  somethings together. You should  not be operating  in silos. You  are all  struggling  to settle  your rent  for living  on planet Earth to the words of nigerias  first  woman  Professor  Adetowun Ogunsheye 

In this way life may Perhaps  have meaning  for you  and you may Perhaps  find your  purpose.trust me! I am just a click away.i would  write again 

But before  I move on count your blessings one by one.!

Signed

Augustine Togonu Bickersteth London England 🇬🇧 may 23 2 2026