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2 June 2011
By Nnimmo Bassey
To many Nigerians, landing a job in the oil and gas sector is a wild dream come true.
Such a job is believed to signal the banishment of poverty and to denote the arrival of stupendous wealth, status, and prestige. The fellows with the ‘good luck’ of landing such jobs can look forward to easy acquisition of chieftaincy titles and other licences to indulge in conspicuous consumption.
Oil company workers are generally imagined to strut around the poverty-ridden society with loaded wallets, whereas the reality is that the majority of oil workers are far from receiving what their work ought to entitle them to. They are accorded neither the cash nor the dignity that should accompany legitimate labour.
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