Hunger and high costs push Nigerians to protest.

Hello, you're listening to the marketplace morning report.

Live from the BBC World Service.

I'm Leanna Byrne and a very good morning to you.

Now when Nigerians President Bolot Tinibou came to power last May, he introduced a series

of economic reforms, but since then prices have gone up by 30% and the value of the Naira

currency has plunged, the Trade Union umbrella group, the Nigeria

Labor Congress, has organized nationwide protests today calling for more action from the government.

Here's the BBC's in Ketchi Ogbana.

The government has assured the people that this reforms will take time and that things would

ease off after this initial pinch by the economic policies that have been introduced in the last eight

months. But the truth is people are desperate. People have reached like they are breaking

point and anywhere you go to, people rush if you're coming out from a car or if you look

well dressed people just rush to you please I'm hungry give me something to eat people have reached their breaking point literally so I do not know when

things would get better because it's gotten worse. Every day it keeps getting worse. So we do not

know when when the curve will start bending like during the time of

COVID where we're all anticipating when the curve would be different. But at this time, people

are honestly very desperate and they just need some level of deliverants.

And Ketchi Ogbana there.

One Nigerian Ugo Chuck Wu got in touch with the BBC

to tell us what life is like there.

People are starving, cost of transportation, housing,

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