October • 2023
Hillary should work towards keeping deadlines
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I am a Nigerian journalist with more than 10 years professional newsroom experience. I am versed on all things Africa - business, politics, culture, and tech. My experience has been with TV stations focused on Nigerian and pan-African news. I have worked as a news producer, bulletin editor and news production team lead and can be contacted for commentary and visual storytelling on Nigerian and African topics (excluding sports). Here is my LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillarynnoruka
October • 2023
Hillary should work towards keeping deadlines
Welcome to a typical open-air market in Lagos where wheelbarrows - and not trolleys - are used to move goods. This clip takes a look into a day in the life of. a wheelbarrow pusher, Azeez.
Fuel subsidies are costing Nigeria $40 million every day. They have kept petrol prices below 50 cents a litre, one of the lowest in the world, but the fuel subsidy regime has been criticized for being ineffective and corrupt. Attempts to remove them in the past have been unsuccessful, but President Bola Tinubu declared an end to subsidies in his inauguration speech. And that has caused chaos in the country.
It's been a tough year for the bread business in Nigeria, Africa's largest economy. Increasing fuel and wheat prices, as well as an overwhelmed and crumbling national power grid, have seen bakeries closing down at an alarming rate. Hillary Nnoruka reports.
Nigeria closed its land borders in August 2019, in a measure aimed at protecting local rice farmers from foreign competition. The rice farmers are unable to meet demand, and this has led to increasing food prices. I report on how this is affecting a restaurateur's business.
In Nigeria, 18 presidential candidates are on the campaign trail ahead of the 2023 general election. But one presidential candidate is breaking the mold. Peter Obi, a wealthy businessman, is spending none of his own money, in a country where politicians spend big. The secret to his growing popularity is young people who call themselves “Obidients”.
A quick one on Nigeria's first coronavirus case. It is an 'As Live' for TRT World. I was the first journalist to get to the hospital where the patient was. I wasn't allowed to film inside.
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