Nigerians' cost of living pain deepens as election looms

Reporting by Libby George; additional reporting by Rodrigo Campos in New York and Emmanuel Bruce in Accra; Editing by Dhara Ranasinghe and Emelia Sithole-Matarise Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. , opens new tab Libby George is a London-based journalist on the Reuters emerging markets team. She was part of a team named as Pulitzer finalists in 2023, and who won the Selden Ring Award for International Investigative Reporting, for a series of stories revealing abuses by Nigeria’s military. After launching her career as a political journalist in Washington, D.C., she joined Reuters in 2015 covering oil, and from 2019-2023, she was senior correspondent and acting bureau chief based in Lagos, Nigeria. The John Lewis ​Partnership, Britain's biggest employee-owned retailer, said on Monday Peter ​Ruis, the ​boss of its department ⁠store chain, ​is to step ​down "to pursue new projects". Access unmatched financial data, news and content in a highly-customised workflow experience on desktop, web and mobile.

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