Effects of child labour on the Nigerian Child

📄 Project Abstract

The concept of Child labour has sparked numerous definitions. Child labour according to International Labour Organization, ILO (2005) is defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity and that is harmful to physical and mental development. It is the employment and exploitation of children for work to the detriment of their physical, mental and educational well-being & growth. UNICEF defines child labor as any type of work undertaken by a child. This is work that requires for which they are too young, compromising their health and wellbeing, robbing them of their play time and depriving them of education.4Black's law dictionary, defines Child Labour as the the employment of workers under the age of maturity5. In Nigeria the age of maturity is 18 years so by the definition, child labour is the employment of children below the age of 18. This is the use and exploitation of children particularly below the age of 16 in Hazardous occupations/empl...