Etisalat Nigeria Telecom In Crisis, Over 2000 Staffs Sacked Nationwide

Telecommunications company, Etisalat Nigeria Friday sacked over 2,000 permanent staffs across the country. The sacked workers were paid off as the Telecom operator seeks to hire adhoc staff to run the operations of the company.

The company is said to be broke currently and can no longer retain the permanent work force. Most of those sacked have expressed surprise and disappointment over the development which has thrown them into the already saturated unemployment market.

“We were asked to leave and our cheques handed to us yesterday, it is unfortunate that I am again back to the Job market” a source who does not want to be mentioned revealed. "They want to recruit contract staff/new agents and they can no longer run the cost of paying those of us that are permanent staff, they claim.”