REPOSITIONING TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN IMO STATE: THE IHEDIOHA EXAMPLE. By Aic Akwarandu The rate of unemployment in Nigeria is not only alarming but on the increase everyday. With the numerous tertiary institutions in the country churning out graduates in their thousands, if not millions, every year, coupled with people losing their jobs on daily basis and joining the league of the unemployed and with little or no hope of employment opportunity, unemployment will always be on the rise in Nigeria. It won't be out of place to heap larger portions of the blame on the shoulders of the government for its failure to set up mechanism to absorb the teeming graduates. Painful it is, the neglect of institutions that would have made young graduates not only self employed but also employers of labour. Most graduates complete the four or five required years in the university without learning any skill. This is even when some of them displayed natural skills in one craft or th...