JoshuaSG:
Most of the comments trailing this topic seem to portray the mindset of average Nigerian employee and are consistent with my view on the average worker, especially the government ones, in Nigeria.

Imagine, the op is seeking information on the monthly salary (legitimate income) earned by employees in the agencies, but most of the trailing comments rank the agencies on the basis of shady earnings by employees.

The worst part is that the op has not disproved some of these comments to, as some members always do, stress that further comments be based on the monthly salary. But can we conclude that his silence on that mean that he subtly wants info on both 'normal and abnormal' earnings?

This is consistent with my knowledge of trends about employment and productivity in the country. Many, if not most, job seekers in Nigeria are not prepared to rely on employers' regular package for jobs. They always want to make some fraudulent income at the cost to the entity, not minding whether such threatens its success or survival.

This corrupt attitude appears to have been culturalized and has been called different names (additional income, chwachwa, etc) especially in the informal sector which is next to the govt where this practice has become the norm.

This corrupt mentality is part of the unnoticed problems of investment and employment creation in the country. It has run down many promising businesses and has caused many entrepreneurs to shift from investments in profitable ventures that generate mass employment to investments in other profitable businesses with either less employment capacity or low income jobs.

These days, it is a common trend among the rich in the country to invest multi-million or billions of naira in businesses that the family can manage with little or no outside hands. In Abuja, as in many other cities in Nigeria, there is a growing number of multi-billion naira worth of filling stations, hotels, and investments in property businesses. The current trend is against the manufacturing sector which has the capacity to engage different categories of worker ranging from professionals (Accountants, Economist, Engineers, Biochemist, Micro biologist, etc) to unskilled labours.

One of the reasons for this change in trend is the fear of loss of investment due to corruption and fraud on the part of management. Some believe that the more the size of management engaged, the more the part of reinvestible profit, and even capital, is lost to stealing by employees. Remember, separation of ownership from management is more pronounced in the manufacturing sector than any other sector in business world .

The conclusion drawable from the consequence of this corrupt and fraudulent employee attitude in the country is that some of the problems confronting the national are internal and self-inflicting as they are caused by Nigerians themselves.

So apt

Almost everybody, if not all in this country are corrupt. We are ready to bankrupt business owners with our criminal minded, greedy and shady act. Sincerely, i fear who no fear us (Nigerians)

There are many Nigerians in diaspora willing to establish businesses in Nigeria but sadly honesty is hard to come by amongst us. We cry foul about our corrupt leadership. Forgetting we aren't different from them. We all are guilty of it. It's in our DNA