Lighting Lagos
Neal Razzell spends days and nights in Lagos with the electricity teams who are working to literally bring power to the people.
Lagos 鈥� Nigeria鈥檚 commercial capital - is one of the world鈥檚 biggest cities and when the sun sets it becomes one of the darkest. Most of its roughly 20 million people light their homes with kerosene lamps or noisy diesel generators. It鈥檚 incredibly inefficient 鈥� and leaves streets dark and dangerous. Changing this has become a national priority. For Assignment, Neal Razzell spends days and nights in Lagos with the electricity teams who are working street by street, bulb by bulb to literally bring power to the people.
Produced and presented by Neal Razzell.
(Image: An engineer fixing the lights from an electrical box in Lagos. 蜜芽传媒 Copyright)
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