{"id":4277,"date":"2020-11-22T04:01:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T04:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2020-11-22T04:01:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T04:01:55","slug":"nigeria-what-children-said-about-their-work-and-wellbeing-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2020\/11\/22\/nigeria-what-children-said-about-their-work-and-wellbeing-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: What Children Said About Their Work and Wellbeing in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Link to Article: “Nigeria: What Children Said About Their Work and Wellbeing in Nigeria”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Nigeria, about every one in four children are involved in child labor. This estimates around a total of 12-15 million children. Although some of this labor is considered “socially acceptable,” and doesn’t necessarily lead to long-lasting physical and psychological impacts on the children, around 43% of it does. Dr. Tracy Omorogiuwa, head of the Department of Social Work at the University of Benin, recently carried out research in hopes to find insight on child labor issues in Nigeria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Millions of children are sent off to work on busy roads, in quarries, mines, construction sites, factories, and numerous other poorly-supervised and hazardous environments. Children reported extreme tolls being taken on their physical health due to their jobs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“At night it will look as if I was beaten by ten persons, because of pains,” one of the children said, after explaining their long, brutal daily work schedule. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Omorogiuwa noted the importance of monitoring child labor, as it has large impacts on many aspects of child development; growth stunts, illness, injuries, disease. Furthermore, the labor poses threats to the physiological health and wellbeing, as well as the social development of the young child workers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue concerning children and labor rights in Nigeria is one that is deeply saddening and should be addressed by its government immediately. Dr. Omoroguiwa makes a good point in mentioning that government policy and NGO’s should take action in the situation, protecting Nigeria’s Child’s Rights Act of 2003. Not only is the hazardous labor taking a brutal toll on children, but the lack of education being prioritized will also have a lasting impact on Nigeria’s development as a country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although change needs to be made, it shouldn’t go without mentioning that in the event that Nigeria does reform or strengthen its child labor laws, the country could see an increase in the struggle for individual families. Many have been left to rely on extra income from working children. Nevertheless, change to the inhumane labor practices and the protection of children must be a priority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This research reflects different aspects of what has been discussed during class, one of the major ones being the collective goods issue; deciding how to provide a solution to a problem regardless of the sacrifices that may have to be made. Nigeria’s ultimate goal would be to get rid of all harsh child labor practices going on within the country, but there are costs to it. By creating stricter regulations, the state would see a loss of labor that it has relied on, and its economy may suffer even greater damage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link to Article: “Nigeria: What Children Said About Their Work and Wellbeing in Nigeria” In Nigeria, about every one in four children are involved in child labor. This estimates around a total of 12-15 million children. Although some of this labor is considered “socially acceptable,” and doesn’t necessarily lead to long-lasting physical and psychological impacts on the children, around 43%… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}