When Yemisi Adegoroye, a teacher and a mother of two received a letter from the lawyer that manages the property she rented an apartment, she felt a spurt of anger bubble up when she read that her landlord was raising her two bedroom apartment rent by 40percent to N700 annually.
Despite Yemisi an
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Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi
Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi is a journalist with over five years’ reporting experience. She writes on industry, agriculture, commodities, climate change, and environmental issues.
She is fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Bloomberg Media Initiative for Africa.