₦airaland Forum

In Nigeria, it is only wen someone works in the Bank, or in any of the Oil and Gas Companies, or when he is a federal government employee, that he can say that he is employed..
In Nigeria, working in a Private Firm, or as a Free-lance worker, or managing a small or medium scale business; is just the same thing as saying that the person is still unemployed.. Such persons are being so much underpaid for their inputs, and for their products and services..
What this means is that, there are many jobs available everywhere, but the renumerations that come from these jobs are so little. Very Little..
In foreign countries, their private emplyers pay their staff what they deserve., and their staff give in their best for their employers with great enthusiasm and satisfaction in return.. Employers and employees already know what the renumeration scales are for the various skills and services.
In Nigeria, many people are willing to work, but the employers of these nigerians pay them so little; and these same nigerian private employers would still blame the Federal Government for the lack of employment opportunities for the teeming youths, while the Federal Government would be counting on these same private employers that they should be providing employment for the teeming youths..
To be sincere, if the employers in the private sector should pay something decent enough to their employees, then, nobody would leave his company in search of any "better job offer"..
For instance, you can imagine a private secondary school proprietor that advertised for vacancy, and was looking for a graduate. When he finally got the graduate that was looking for, he was paying the graduate a meagre sum of N10,000 per month., and this graduate had to teach three subjects in at least five classrooms every single day.
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It is high-time the Government should step in and control these private employers and the way they over-use employees and yet underpay them in the end..
These employers end up accumulating lots of profits in return, and end up spending them so recklessly, while their employees go home with peanuts..
Some standard minimum renumeration scales should be developed by the government, and should be passed as a law, and should be accepted and adopted by the employers in the private sector..
Let there be dignity in labour.!!
Let the people get the decent reward for their inputs.!!
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I know that the employers would be like, "we bargained with the employees before we employed them anyway"..
But here are some questions..
Have you ever wondered why the same employees leave the work so soon, even without dropping a resignination letter.??
Have you ever wondered why you kept employing many people for a particular important post, yet, they kept leaving your company so soon.?
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It is time the private sector employers be controlled.
The time has come when every person who finds himself doing any work at-all can proudly regard himself as "Employed"..
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The question for all of us right now is;
"In what ways can the government efficiently and effectively control these private sector employers, so that an employee working in any of these private firms can be paid decently, and be happy with his employment."?

I dnt agree with your view on this but will later siggest ways to increase job opportunities.
whenever there is surplus labour supply then the price of labour becomes so cheap, even here on NL put a job opportunity on the joke section the view will surprise you, employers in various private organisation understand this, they are in the buisness for profit so they harness the opportunity by paying low, leave the job today thousand will come to take over. That is the economic situation and its normal, the only question is what is the government doing and what are we doing as well.
I don't know how best to express myself on ways to which government will tackle rising in the youth unemployment because I believe they know but are not just ready because of there personal gains. moreover if the system is working fine they tend to gain more.
They just revived rail system in the country provided job isn't. so will other dead government enterprise will if they were well managed and corruption free.
When olusegun obasanjo in 2002 encouraged the telecommunications operators it goes along way helping, so through agriculture, encouraging by providing a goid operating atmosphere for foriegn investors to invest in the country. The government will do that by making sure electricity is stable, ever since independent 1960 till date, imagine nigeria cant be boast of a week uninterrupted power supply, china build a power generation plant with $25 billion do u want to tell me this country don't av thesame kind of money.
Last but not the least is those pple on power, rumour as it that they av refineries else where abroad...I dnt know how tru that is but to me I think the time as come for the change and if nigeria dont get it roght tjis time like we did on june 12 election it will take another 20 years to realise what we are missing.

Let me expanciate more from my own point of view....
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Let's take for instance,, If things were stable enough, so that someone who is teaching in a private secondary school is being paid a salary that is decent enough by his school's proprietor, then, such a person wouldn't be so frustrated to the extent that he had to think about applying for any other so-called immigration job, not to think of having to borrow N1000 so as to apply for the immigration job.. This is Nigeria for us. Where the whole lots of private employers (private companies, private firms, big stores, hotels, construction companies, e.t.c) are making Nigerians to suffer, and yet, they blame the government for all of it..
In other countries,, even a coffee vendor in an average café earns very well.. And as a result, wen he serve his customers coffee, he does it with happiness and courtesy, and the customers would feel so good..
In other countries, no matter the type of work they do, nobody sees it as a small job, because the difference in what such people earn from that job, when compared to what every other persons doing similar job elsewhere is earning, is so negligible..
Thus, a bank receptionist and a hotel receptionist is almost the same thing in payment, in status, and in everything..

The things that Nigerian youths suffer in this country all in the name of getting a job and get little cash is horrible. I remember applying for a job as a secretary in an organization. Over 2000 people applied. So they screen a lot of people out until 20 people remained and was invited for interview. After all the test and questions asked during the interview. They selected their best candidate and offered the salary. They wanted person with 5 years experience and they offered 20,000 naira as salary. You will work 7:30am-5:30pm monday to saturday and occasionally you will work later than 5:30. At the end of the month they will pay ur 19,800 claiming 200 naira is tax. This same company monthly profit run into millions of naira yet they pay their staffs peanut and sack without discretions.
But you see a lot of people praying to get a job like that because they are tired of been poor and struggling to survive. This is the nigeria we,re living in day in day out.

I pray that the CHANGE we need come quickly

KillerBeauty:
The things that Nigerian youths suffer in this country all in the name of getting a job and get little cash is horrible. I remember applying for a job as a secretary in an organization. Over 2000 people applied. So they screen a lot of people out until 20 people remained and was invited for interview. After all the test and questions asked during the interview. They selected their best candidate and offered the salary. They wanted person with 5 years experience and they offered 20,000 naira as salary. You will work 7:30am-5:30pm monday to saturday and occasionally you will work later than 5:30. At the end of the month they will pay ur 19,800 claiming 200 naira is tax. This same company monthly profit run into millions of naira yet they pay their staffs peanut and sack without discretions.
But you see a lot of people praying to get a job like that because they are tired of been poor and struggling to survive. This is the nigeria we,re living in day in day out.

I pray that the CHANGE we need come quickly

My dear it's just so pathetic

KillerBeauty:
The things that Nigerian youths suffer in this country all in the name of getting a job and get little cash is horrible. I remember applying for a job as a secretary in an organization. Over 2000 people applied. So they screen a lot of people out until 20 people remained and was invited for interview. After all the test and questions asked during the interview. They selected their best candidate and offered the salary. They wanted person with 5 years experience and they offered 20,000 naira as salary. You will work 7:30am-5:30pm monday to saturday and occasionally you will work later than 5:30. At the end of the month they will pay ur 19,800 claiming 200 naira is tax. This same company monthly profit run into millions of naira yet they pay their staffs peanut and sack without discretions.
But you see a lot of people praying to get a job like that because they are tired of been poor and struggling to survive. This is the nigeria we,re living in day in day out.

I pray that the CHANGE we need come quickly

My dear, this had been the situation. And if I should guess, none of those five people they finally selected stayed more than one year., knowing the profits of the company, and knowing that they are being over-used and underpaid..
What can be done.? Is there a way that we nigerians can change the situation.? (coupled with whatever that the government might be doing to that effect.?)