Folakemi Odoaje revealed on twitter that a graduate working in a private school in Ibadan earns N6,000 as salary.
Not sure if she's talking about herself but she said the graduate took the job after wasting so much money applying for better paying jobs.
Folakemi said this while responding to Senator-elect, Ben Murray-Bruce's tweet
that the least any staff of his organization, Silverbird group, receives as salary before tax is N25,000. The question is, so the minimum wage
policy does not apply to private institutions as well? See more tweets after the cut...
Not me..
ReplyDeleteDis is wht is called under employment in our country.
DeleteThia is just wrong n yet sone will sit in d office doing next to nothing n be collecting hundreds of thousands....we need a fix please.....
DeleteThe minimum wage in this country is also a fat joke really
DeleteThe minimum wage in this country is a joke and our politicians are more concerned with enriching their pockets as opposed to succeeding, and leaving their imprints for a job well done.
DeleteYes, vry vry true o, sm pple even collect less dan 6k in all dos agbole private schs
DeleteSame in some parts of Benue and on top of that, alot of people haven't collected that measly wage in months.
DeleteSome earn lower than that and their employers still owe them.
DeleteTerrible country. God help us
ReplyDeleteYou done dey famous small small. Try
DeleteReasons why graduates should create jobs for themselves. Just like Linda Ikeja. Little wonder she doesn't know the situation of things in the country
Delete@linda not knowing,she'd rather be more concerned with Kim,wiz kid and Emma nyras love life.
DeleteXo sad.... God will help us
ReplyDeleteWe must move and it must be forward
ReplyDeleteLord have mercy.
ReplyDeleteWhich way Nigeria
ReplyDeleteGod forbid bad thing.
ReplyDeleteYes..most times its the type of jobs available...after wasting 6yrs ( plus strikes) you go and end up serving food n drinks at d bar to pple who probably dont have more dan primary 6 certificate
ReplyDeleteIt happens jare, the rate of unemployment is too in this country.
ReplyDeleteThis na real TUFIAKWA! Baba Buhari will bring the CHANGE that we all desire Insha Allah.
ReplyDeleteHan han! Nawaoo, linda seems u don't know d condition of things in Nigeria!!!
DeleteAnd the worse part is dey can't complain bcos if dey do,dey will be fired!it's that bad!
DeleteY r u here?
DeleteWelcme 2 naija whre everytin z possible
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine a graduate for that matter. Hmm 6k? This is not right oh
ReplyDeleteGOD FORBID.6K FOR WETIN NA??TOMJERRYSWIT
ReplyDeleteToo bad, wẻn there s no choice,6k as salary
ReplyDeleteAnd. Is that life?v
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time I'm hearing of a graduate being paid such meagre amount. Its so unfair.
ReplyDelete~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA
If diz ur 1st time u re hearing diz den... Itz nothing new on how graduate earn so low amount.
DeleteU don't leave in nigeria then,
DeleteBonario really? This is your first time? Are u trying to form ignorance like Linda or you people are just so fake that you are faraway from reality and u just don't know.
DeleteEven here in lag
ReplyDeleteGraduates are earning as low as 10 -15k per month
Buhari Take Note!!
I believe the graduate is a corper serving at the school. The schools pays 6k and federal govt pays 19,800. I think thats what she meant.
ReplyDeleteA corper serving in a school doesn't teach primary schools and secondly they are being paid 4k not 6k
DeleteAm vry sure she is nt a corper cuz I served in ib in 2010 n I knw wat dey offer graduate. vry poor place to grow.
DeleteOMG! God help us in this country. Linda take note!
ReplyDeleteOMG! God help us in this country. Linda take note!
ReplyDeleteToo bad. This country is so cruel to sm pple.
ReplyDeletea.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said..
ReplyDelete.
Thats Nigeria for yu....
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***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***
When its comes to job application there is never waste of time bcos its a continuous process, and never giving up.
ReplyDeleteAbt d poor pay most jobs comes wit dat bcos of d strength, and level of income. God help us.
Simply because every and anyone if a graduate. If you complain, they'll Jst get another unemployed graduate to replace you
ReplyDeleteTaa!... I no go go start Okrika business???
ReplyDelete* * * Linda's 1st Daughter * * *
Naija go better
ReplyDeleteNaija is blessed o
ReplyDeleteDats true..
ReplyDeleteMr Ben I reside in Abuja,Garki to b precise n I nid a job...
I'm serious,Linda help me tell him puh-lease
Nigeria my country
ReplyDeleteVery true even in lagos
ReplyDeleteThe situation in Nigeria is a painfil. One.Its not even about going to school.Its about the untold hardship that follows after graduating .I still don't understand why politicians in public offices earn 1000 times better than a graduate in the civil service.Why is there so much disparity between salaries being paid in NNPC,FIRS,para military for instance as opposed to peanuts being paid in civil and public service eg ministries? Its so unfair that some are treated better than the others when all of em went through thesame stress in school.The govt really have to look into that
ReplyDeleteLinda this is not new to us again in this country, when your parents spent whooping sum of money to see one through school and the out come is this? I really don't blame that stephanie who said nigeria is the worst place to live in. It's sad 6k a graduate! I just pray to God almighty to see me through when it my turn to search for white collar job.
ReplyDeleteHave received 7k as salary once, while I was searching for job which I did for 4months before working in a fashion house as stylist where I earn 24k before starting up my own...my dear sometimes in life u have to pass through such to learn something about life...now I make over 100k per month..learnt a lot during those time..
DeleteEven if I see da 6k job,i will do,av seriously searched for job since I finished my service last year november,it not easy,sannideborah14@yahoo.com,someone shld pls help me
DeleteImagine d nonsense! Lifeaint easy n our politicians made it worse!
ReplyDeleteI have not heard of 6k before, but I know of a graduate been paid 15k. And the working days include Saturdays and the staffs (Degree graduates) sweeps and mobs the office too everyday.....
ReplyDeleteMoye says so via BB Passport...Courtesy LIB....
Hian! A lot of lawyers r being paid 20k monthly. My colleagues, am I lying? It Mk me shed blood cos law is one of d most expensive course to study in naija not to talk of hw u wd nearly lose ur sanity in law sch too. Pls hw can one build a family or even support his parents that hv spent so much n waited patiently 4 u.
DeleteAnd this is exactly why I refuse to practice law in this country. My degree can sleep for all I care. The legal sector is rubbish.
DeleteTrue. Am a lawyer and I can relate. So many people even have masters from foreign universities yet they still want to pay you 20k or less. I remember my days in law school, are how you will read like your life depends on that book, I no sleeping time, drinking coffee every now and then yet nothing to show for. May God help us all
DeleteAnd they wonder why youths are into all kinds of get rich quick schemes!!
ReplyDeleteI dont kow of 6k...But I know of 15k.
ReplyDeleteAnd the working days include Saturdays..
.And the staffs ( Degree graduates) sweeps and mobs the office everyday.........Nigeria
Moye says so via BB Passport...Courtesy LIB....
NASS are not doing anything, the way private companies use and talk to graduate is so irritating. People work 6 days a week with little pay and they are still been owed for months. How the entrepreneur feels he his doing them a favor because so called organization cant implement rules.
ReplyDeleteWho are this so called NASS they will keep face like they are not seeing what private companies are paying people. Our government cant even fight for us inside the con3, foreign companies will come and do same thing. When this company see oyibo they go they pay them millions.
ReplyDeleteAnything is possible in Nigeria.We lack enabling laws
ReplyDeletebefore???? se even get luck say she get the job sef.
ReplyDeleteIt's true they earn that, but another bitter truth is, most graduates wants office jobs/better pay from day 1.
ReplyDeleteThere r businesses, handwork that can fetch u way better, but they settle for less Co's it has to do with office, our mentality is not helping.
If u r a graduate or without education but u can communicate in pidgin/English contact me, there's this organization that's recruiting, no money is needed from u.
Hmmmm' may God help our country and our''destitute of population ....its alarming ''and u hear the amount this senators, gov, members...collect ''haba.....some civil servants are not even living a glory life '''we have to help our self''' Well thank God...the slogan change has come to act and not just mere fiction # God help our coming leaders
ReplyDeleteSo true. Unemployment has eaten deep that employers of labour are on the edge cutting cost due to the economy.
ReplyDeleteNothing so far has been done by the three tiers of government.
Omg...sometimes I wonder if dis country is progressing sef.
ReplyDeleteThat white man that tweeted that it's wrong to force employers to pay their workers a minimum of 25k (and that we are not in soviet union) must be one of those Indians or chinese that enslaves their nigerian workers, overuse them and pay them peanuts!!!
ReplyDelete30 days = 6k seriously!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???
ReplyDeleteMy course mate took a gateman job some where in ph just to feed. The alarming rate of unemployment is quite disheartening so am not surprised that some is collecting 6k
ReplyDeleteMy Sister earns 6k in a private primary school at Onitsha.
ReplyDeletehmmm, then most of us should really thank God.Those earning better wont appreciate what you have now until you loose.
ReplyDeletelinda what are you talking, it is as bad as that now. there is this private col. of education in ilorin here who offered to pay 5k per course for part time lecture for a semester, and don`t forget a semester is 3 months. imagine 5k for 3 months for part time lecturers. i told the registrar i paid my sales boy 8k plus every month,and my son`s home tutor 24k for just 2 children and he comes 12 times in a week for 1hr.30mins. i told and you want to offer 5k for a semester? what a cheap labour.
ReplyDeleteLove my country...we're the giant of
ReplyDeleteafrica lol.
See my story, maybe it may sound familiar. I got a "Job" recently at a media outfit in Niger state where am currently serving as a Corp member and the pay is 15,000naira. In a state where you pay for everything, from water, electricity bill and house rents. Linda such is the Nigerian dream for many of my kinds out there. #Toughlife
ReplyDeleteHow sad. One has to survive.
ReplyDeletelinda what are you talking, it is as bad as that now. there is this private col. of education in ilorin here who offered to pay 5k per course for part time lecture for a semester, and don`t forget a semester is 3 months. imagine 5k for 3 months for part time lecturers. i told the registrar i paid my sales boy 8k plus every month,and my son`s home tutor 24k for just 2 children and he comes 12 times in a week for 1hr.30mins. i told and you want to offer 5k for a semester? what a cheap labour.
ReplyDeletelinda what are you talking, it is as bad as that now. there is this private col. of education in ilorin here who offered to pay 5k per course for part time lecture for a semester, and don`t forget a semester is 3 months. imagine 5k for 3 months for part time lecturers. i told the registrar i paid my sales boy 8k plus every month,and my son`s home tutor 24k for just 2 children and he comes 12 times in a week for 1hr.30mins. i told and you want to offer 5k for a semester? what a cheap labour.
ReplyDeleteIMAGINE PEOPLE EARN 6K IN NIGERIA AND SHAPE YOU WANTS TO STEAL MY 26K... LINDA I WON'T ALLOW YOU REST O IF I DON'T GET MY FULL REFUND FROM THOSE THIEVES YOU KEEP ADVERTISING FOR.
ReplyDeleteThat's tru. My brother that works with covenant polytechnic aba receives a salary of 8k per month. Living faith school oo. Linda if u doubt go and investigate.
ReplyDeleteWow! Just Wow
ReplyDeleteOKORO UPGRADED**
Nigerian Graduates are lazy! Building site workers earn much more than graduates. Our housegirl is a graduate who would rather work in a house earning 50K, not paying rent or bills than work in an office for 12,000 and not have enough money to transport to work
ReplyDeleteSo they shld turn to bricklayers?...u think those that work in offices r lazy?.....do u knw hw hard it is to lay out good biz plans, strategize to make more profits......task ur brain so much u r doomed to constant migraines....become an adrenaline junkie?....u r fool and an ignoramus...and that is putting it mildly
DeleteFrom the little to the not very little. Over 60% of Shell(SPDC) staff are contract staff and they go as long as 5months before getting their salaries. In fact, they practically beg to be paid. Suffering and smiling. It's an endemic rot in the country and sadly the perpetrators are Nigerians.
ReplyDeleteWent for a job interview in a private school in Opic. The woman said she can only pay 20k per month...she went further that the 20k is too much sef that she could pay 10-15k..calculating my transportation to the school,its 12k per month...tithe 2k...remaining 6k..I'm a graduate with my nysc certificate o...That's Nigeria for u.
ReplyDeleteWent for a job interview in a private school in Opic. The woman said she can only pay 20k per month...she went further that the 20k is too much sef that she could pay 10-15k..calculating my transportation to the school,its 12k per month...tithe 2k...remaining 6k..I'm a graduate with my nysc certificate o...That's Nigeria for u.
ReplyDeleteThat even when they get paid. Even at such meager salaries many go unpaid....God help us.
ReplyDeleteThe condition of service in Nigeria, for those that are lucky to have a condition of service, is wicked. Makes one to wonder - is this my oil rich country or am I in a foreign land? But a place where the federal and state institutions owe their employees and their pensioners, what then do u expect to get from private establishments...Its less than an animal farm here! Until we start hanging these institutions bare on the wire,mentioning specific names as it applies, hoping blogs like this will help spread the message - good you have disclaimer, and make these establishments buckle up to save face. Until then, we may be headed deeper than we are.
ReplyDeleteWhat is this man saying??
ReplyDeleteMinimum wages in Nigeria only pertain to those in civil service
The man should concentrate on knowing more about Nigeria
If you enforce the N25,000 on the private entities, it will lead to a large disequilibrium in the economy and frustrate those in the lower end of the SMEs who are just looking for N100,000 profit per month.
What government should focus on, is building the economy and creating a stimulating environment for the SMEs to grow.
When the wealth of the SMEs increase, then we will experience increase in wages for those in the low income class
Well... in as much as we deserve gud pay frm salary's.. we also av to b creative in our own way so as not to get dissapoint'd @ d end of d day..
ReplyDeleteAnd are you aware that an establishment that has more than 5 employees is meant to contribute in their employee pension scheme. Pension reform act 2014 - a country where laws are instituted yet never implemented. No recognised nor effective enforcement agency. Who will the struggling man complain to? The ones she elected into office to speak for her are busy stealing from her. He is afraid to complain lest he gets fired by the dubious and heartless employer and spends another decade searching for another job in the torn infested rose we call Nigeria. Of course she is not even aware of where to lay her complaints. Could it be addressed to the Labour Union? But where are they? He is not aware of them because they are busy seeking strike actions that will provide backdoor cash for them and like Boko haram, have not made themselves and their mandate known to the common man. Hmmmm
ReplyDeleteWhat about those who work and don't get paid for months on end? Nigeria Labour ministry need to tighten up on a lot of the fckry that is going on all over.
ReplyDeleteIt can't be true
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