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Obstacles to progress

Realities

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Nigeria (April 2016)
Olatunji is tired and exasperated because he hasn't been paid his monthly salary since
December.
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Last year, it was reported up to 23 states of Nigeria's 36 states left their civil servants unpaid
for months on end. Olatunji, 57, was one of them. After being owed his salary for eight months,

he received half payments for the rest of 2015.
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Last year, as many as 23 of Nigeria's 36 states left their civil servants unpaid for months on
end

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Unpaid school teachers, nurses and other civil servants turn to anything from taxi driving to

petty trading to survive.
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Last year, thousands of government workers in Imo state went without their salaries for up to
eight months

Adegoke, Yemisi. "Nigeria Has a Culture of Not Paying Workers and It's Not about to Change
Anytime Soon." Quartz Africa.
Accessed August 3, 2020. https://qz.com/africa/663626/nigeria-has-a-culture-of-not-paying-
workers-and-its-not-about-to-change-anytime-soon/.
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Nigeria (August 2017)
Academics' Union Banned over Strike on Unpaid Salaries
University World News. "Academics' Union Banned over Strike on Unpaid Salaries."
Accessed September 4, 2020.
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20170816103404208.
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Nigeria (April 2019)
The Kogi State chairman of the Congress, Comrade Onuh Edoka, who stated this during the 7th
quadrennial delegates' conference in Lokoja, said that workers are owed between seven to 30
months salary arrears by the state government

Akinfehinwa, John. "Unpaid Salaries: Kogi Workers Now Beg on the Streets - NLC." Daily Post
Nigeria (blog), April 26, 2019.
https://dailypost.ng/2019/04/26/unpaid-salaries-kogi-workers-now-beg-streets-nlc/.
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Nigeria (June 2020)
Doctors Fighting COVID-19 in Nigeria Are Striking to Protest Unpaid Wages and Lack of PPE

"Doctors Fighting COVID-19 in Nigeria Are Striking to Protest Unpaid Wages and Lack of PPE."
Accessed September 4, 2020. https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/nigeria-doctors-strike-covid-19-
ppe-pay/.
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