33-year-old Goodnews is a food delivery rider by day and an aspiring writer by night. He works 12 hours a day weaving through Lagos traffic to deliver as many orders as he can to customers. Although he is an engineering graduate, Goodnews is part of the 85% of working Nigerians unable to find formal employment. By joining the country’s growing gig economy,  Goodnews now earns three times more than he has at any other job, but he says the work isn’t all roses… 

 
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Show notes 

Sources: 

• Rest of World - Running a food delivery service in Nigeria is hard
• BusinessDay Ng - Half of Nigerians earn less than 50,000 naira a month
• Business and Human Rights Resource Centre  
• NPR - Lagos, Nigeria’s Megacity
• Fairwork Nigeria Ratings

Acknowledgements:

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Thanks to Ngozi Chukwu of Tech Cabal and Bukola Adebayo of Context News for the reporting help.

Special thanks to Rob Byers, and to Hindenburg for supporting our projects across Africa with audio editing software.

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