Sweat for pennies: How Lagos hospitals underpay cleaners (1)

Tolani Olaoye stares at the bundle of cash in her hand, the notes still warm from the payroll office at Gbagada General Hospital. It is N30,000. She flips it over again, as if intense scrutiny can make the money grow. But it won’t. For a moment, the 34-year-old single mother of two holds still,