Africa Business Radio

The federal government says that it will partner with journalists and the mass media in the campaign to eliminate and prevent child labour in the country.The government says there was a need to create more awareness of the dangers of child labour, and the efforts to prevent and eliminate this hydra-headed monster are now more imperative than ever.The Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mr Yerima Tarfa, says that Nigeria is working on achieving a significant milestone in the elimination of Child Labour practices.He added that child labour and other forms of modern slavery are issues of grave concern in the global arena on account of their dire consequences, and the persistence of those consequences through generations of families.