conditions in Nigeria, which could be conjectured that poor motivation of the workforce is responsible for the seemingly high level of dissatisfaction of the average Nigerian worker as propounded by Bennel and Akyeampong 2007. This underscores the importance of the subject matter of this research Akinmayowa (2006) defined motivation as the will to work and contribute the action to a given process without being forced to do so. According to Ngwoke (2004), motivation has to do with the internal state