In 2009 when John Ola landed a job as a contract staff at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), his take-home pay was ₦15,000.
and private employers and the employees to respectively contribute a minimum of 10 per cent and eight per cent of employees’ salary to a pension scheme account run by the pension commission every month.
One of them is Shehu Yusuf, 34, who works as an oxygen attendant in the engineering department of the hospital. “I was very afraid. It was only God that saved me,” she said, wondering how she would have coped had she had the virus with her two children to cater for.Emmanuel works in the labour ward. Her job is to clear and clean the ward. She said she was part of the team that delivered a“They may be at the base of the power pyramid, but they’re also at COVID-19 risk,” tweeted Fisayo Soyombo, a journalist who blew the pay cut whistle at the time.
The chief medical director of the hospital, Chris Bode, on Tuesday, said the workers are not LUTH staff and he could not comment on behalf of the company.
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