Workers close down Transcop Hotel, Over Unpaid Salary. Guests Locked In Lifts

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Information available and received from Calabar is that angry staff of the Transcop Hotel (Metro Hotel) a well known 5-star hotel, took laws to their hands and held the entire hotel to ransom on Wednesday.

There clearly was pandemonium in the entire premises since the maintenance staff were said to have turn off power to the entire building, thus trapping several guests and senior members of the hotel inside lifts. They are reported to be protesting over non payment of their salary and allowances for all months.

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Law Graduates Earn As Low As 15K Monthly Salary In Nigeria

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Many young lawyers in Nigeria today are being exploited by their employers, who are mostly senior lawyers. The story of these people who study for about six years for a Degree in Law is very pathetic.

“I was earning a monthly salary of N5,000 during my NYSC service year. I was being paid N10,000 monthly at my second law firm and N20,000 at both my third and fourth law firms. 

“Currently, I am not on any salary. The job in those firms were so demanding. I was working without stop, usually from 8am to 7pm or occasionally longer hours from Monday to Saturday!”

Rachael [name withheld], obtained her first law degree from the University of Ilorin and was called to the bar in 2008. Now she just realised that she missed the point thinking that her venture for a further study abroad would give her a better life as a young lawyer in Nigeria.

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Policeman Str-íps Na-kéd Over Unpaid Salary

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A police constable, Leke Obaba, on Thursday evening str-ípped himself nak-éd at the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, to protest over his unpaid salary.

The police officer, who told P.M.NEWS that he joined the police force in 2003, complained that he had not been given his salary since he started working with the force.

“You won’t believe that I have no access to my account since I was demobilised from the Mobile Police Force, MOPOL, 53 Akwa Ibom State. For over 11 years I have worked I was not paid any salary. I was later transferred from Kaduna Command to Lagos last year. Though when I was in Kaduna I was taken to a psychiatric hospital, I have wife and children, how do I feed them?”

Question Of The Day: Who Do I Give My First Salary To? God or My Parents?

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Here's what a reader asked online..." Please I want you to help me ask your readers a question for me. Who do I give my first salary to, God (first fruits) or my Parents? I'm not equating the importance of the two at all its just that some people pay to God and some give to their parents, so which please and why? Thank You. "

7 Tips On Negotiating Your Salary

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In this report, various ways of negotiating an appropriate pay package are described.

After months of anticipation, which, perhaps, have been preceded by years of unsuccessful applications, you have been shortlisted for a job interview.

When this happens, Human Resource experts say it is normal to be excited, delirious even. As natural as this excitement may be, they say there is need for potential interviewees to avoid getting carried away as many have blown their chances as a result.