As kids celebrated Children’s Day in Nigeria yesterday, about 39.2 per cent of Nigerian children aged five to 17 are still prevalent in child labour.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), which gave some statistics in a 2022 Nigeria Child Labour Survey, yesterday, to commemmorate the day, said the prevalence of hazardous labour in children aged five to 17 was 22.9 per cent, or 14,390,353. Of the children in child labour, the NBS said 24.2 per cent were in employment and worked in the agricultural sector.
The bureau stated that during the period, 50.5 per cent within the same age range were involved in economic activity.
The percentage which hovered around 31,756,302 children in economic activity has about 50.7 per cent boys and 50.2 per cent girls, while 41.8 per cent are from urban and 51.7 per cent are from rural areas.
