Nigeria’s ban on child labour is not working out as the authorities expected, since thousands of poor children keep being exploited by mine owners and gold dealers in the country.
The African nation approved the regulation more than a decade ago, but the International Labour Organisation assures there are still 15 million children working in Nigeria. Most of them have dropped out of school and are at risk every day.
However, for many of these children this is how their entire family gets a chance of surviving. The network Al Jazeera was in Nigeria, where they produced a report about the mining conditions and children working in gold pits.