The minimum wage being earned by Nigerian workers has been in effect for over six or seven years now, with some state government even struggling to pay their workers. Despite only paying 18,000 Naira as minimum wage to civil servants in the country, the government still owes a backlog of arrears to its workers. It was a hell of a problem before labour and the government could reach an agreement on what the minimum wage for a Nigerian worker should be; but of course, an agreement was eventually reached, and the rest is now history.
As a civil servant who earns 18,000 Naira every month, how do you cope with your children’s school fees, paying your landlord, feeding your family, paying for your transport fare, and living a normal life? How do you make ends meet in an economy that is heavily plagued by the burden of high inflation, corruption, and delayed salaries?
Of a truth, some workers have always said they survive by ‘grace’ of God, but is there a way to explain how someone who earns such a small amount of salary manages to pull things through, especially with petrol selling for as high as 100 Naira per litre?
