- Author(s): Fajana I. O, Ph.D., Elegbede S.T., Ph.D., Kolawole, I.O, Ph.D., Gbajumo-Sheriff, M., Ph.D.
- Volume 5 No. 1 & 2, 2021
This study focused attention on children involvement in domestic work and other forms of worst labour. The aim of this study is to establish from conceptual analysis and review of extant literatures the major causes of increasing women and child labour in domestic work in Nigeria. The study is a conceptual analysis of issues surrounding children involvement in domestic work in Nigeria and remedies to the challenges confronting domestic work in the Country. Therefore, the study relied heavily on extant literature that covered domestic work,
child labour, unemployment, employment regulations in Nigeria, decent work agenda. The study also makes references to secondary data and social statistics collected from the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Larger percentage of children in Nigeria involved in domestic work because of combination of economic and social problems such as internal
conflicts, high rate of unemployment, poverty, rural-urban migration and political instability. Despite government regulatory attempts to stop the menace of child labour in domestic work the problem still persist because of weak institutions in the country. This study, therefore recommends the use of social dialogue model, implementation of decent work agenda to strengthen the labour
institutions in Nigeria.