Nigeria is set to introduce a work-related reward system of workers to increase their productivity level to drive economic growth.
The government is also working on instruments that will always link every minimum wage increase to the amount of productivity level of workers, in a bid to weed redundancy and truancy
These were revealed by the director general of the National productivity centre, Baffa Dan’agundi, at a valedictory session for a former director general, Raji Mustapha in Abuja
Nigeria has consistently low rankings in global productivity, with a 2024 International Labour Organization (ILO) report placing its labour productivity at 143rd out of 191 countries, measured as GDP per hour worked.
This low ranking is linked to factors such as poor infrastructure, limited human capital development, and widespread informality in the economy, which hinder the efficiency of combining labour and capital to produce goods and services.
Baffa Dan’agundi is the director general of Nigeria’s national productivity centre, NPC, and he identifies more factors that could reduce the productivity of workers
Raji Mustapha and Kashim Akor are productivity experts and former NPC director generals, who strongly believe in using the reward system to boost productivity.
In the 2025 National productivity day, it was revealed that only 20% of Nigerian workers both public and private are productive, a development which has called for concern and the need for concerted effort to grow and develop the economy through strategic productivity boosting mechanisms.
Editor : Ena Agbanoma
