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Conditions for workers in Nigeria are far from ideal. Civil servants and employees of private companies (foreign) have relatively good offices and facilities, health care, and wages, but that is not the case for most of the others. 

Conditions in the pre-collegiate schools and the universities have deteriorated markedly because of repression, underfunding, and irregular payment of salaries. 

Protests or industrial actions by trade union leaders often resulted in detention. A number of university students were killed by the police, and the universities shut down following students' protests and riots. 

Some doctors and professors lost their jobs because of industrial action. In addition, income inequalities between the rulers and bureaucrats on the one hand and masses of workers on the other, poor wages, and late payment of salaries demoralize workers.

 Furthermore, they adversely affect their standard of living, health, and work productivity. The poor conditions contribute to the pervasive corruption in Nigeria and the use of the country as a conduit for drug trafficking.

Three square meal is a luxury in Nigeria today, a good shelter over one's head with adequate facilities has become extinct, education is a four year course called illiteracy, when the popular musician Abdulkarim Idris sang 'Nigeria Jaga- jaga', the President did not find it funny.

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 As we marked workers' day, a lot of speeches were read, hands were clapped, and people marched past some executives and pretended that all is well. 

Some Governors took the opportunity to announce some paltry increase in salaries while on their part; expectedly the workers decried the third term wayo in strong terms.

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The Nigerian worker today lives his life on remuneration that is referred to as 'survival wages' and we get statistics from the relevant authorities telling us that there is serious improvement. 

Yes, people in the civil services have bought more cars, but without fuel to run them so that is improvement.

“The nation’s leadership has become so impervious to the sanctity of lives of the citizenry to an extent that our people are not only mowed down in our streets and villages by insurgents, kidnappers and armed robbers but those in faraway South Africa have also become easy prey to the security agencies of that country. 

Nigerian lives are lost in the waters of the Mediterranean more than that of any other nation and this carnage if nothing is done quickly will surpass the deaths of Nigerians during the various voyages to the West through the inhuman transatlantic slave trade.”

The Nigerian worker tries to be productive with a foundation of underdevelopment. The amount of sweat that the Nigeria worker puts in is abused by the same unequal wealth that he sees the elite squander on frivolities. 

So its not really how hard you work but who you know and how 'smart' you are, not forgetting there is the Nigerian SMARTNESS. It is sad that the Nigerian worker is suffering government induced unemployment because of a so-called and very artificial downsizing or is it right sizing.

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It is without a doubt that some organisations in Nigeria do not adhere to labour stipulations as regards the treatment and working conditions of their employees.

 The Nigerian labour organisation too is spindly and malacus when it comes to defending the rights of workers. This a rough blot on the Nigerian work system. 

The rising tide of unemployment too has foisted a mentality of “I work or I die” on Nigerian workers that they endure execrable depths of maltreatment, expurgating their rights from the rule books. 

The present conditions of Nigerian workers call for accelerated actions in giving jagged teeth to labour laws protecting Nigerian workers from misuse, abuse, and capital dehumanization by their employers. 

Workers in general must be treated with dignity, fairness, and respect if maximum output is expected of them.
 It is when they are treated right that employers can avail themselves of the best of them.
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