Child Labour
Child labour is one of the social issues which requires the immediate attention of the authorities. Child Labour refers to the working of children and teens to earn a livelihood and support their family.
As per a report, the world’s most destitute and impoverished countries comprise about 25% of children as child Labourers. The leading cause of child Labour in Nigeria is the high poverty rate, where children work to earn bread for a day.
The leading causes of Child Labour in Nigeria are social inequality, lack of education, and poverty. According to UNICEF’s report, children from the impoverished and rural parts of the world have no available alternatives such as teachers and schools.
Many rural communities lack adequate school facilities and the availability of schools. The low paying economy blooms with low cost, easy to hire, and Child Labour. Besides the unorganized Agricultural sector, child Labour exists in unorganized assembly, unorganized retail works, and unorganized trade sectors.
Other factors of child Labour include the informal economy’s size, the inability of most Nigeria industries to scale up, lack of modern technologies, and the structure and inflexibility of the Nigeria market.
Children are employed due to social obligation, or loans and debts made by the families. Usually, children are forced to employ their families in brick kilns, stone and quarries, and agricultural sectors.
The children of the migrant workers and those that belong to the marginalized sections and Dalits in the society are pledged to work in small production houses and factories in the urban areas. Child Labourers on the bond are usually subjected to physical, emotional, mental, and sexual abuse, even leading to death.
