Nigeria: Plans to scrap fuel subsidy sparks rush to stock up

Our correspondent Nduka Orjinmo joins us to explain why people have been seen panic-buying fuel in Nigeria following the President's decision to scrap a decades-long subsidy on petroleum products.

A former top Chinese government scientist has told the BBC that possibility the Covid virus leaked from a laboratory should not be ruled out. He was speaking to our correspondent, John Sudworth, as part of a new podcast series called - 'Fever: The Hunt for Covid's Origin'. We'll hear from John Sudworth about what Professor George Gao had to say.

And we'll have the latest on the tensions in Kosovo, as Nato condemns as "totally unacceptable" attacks by demonstrators in the country that left at least 30 of its peacekeepers injured.

Presenter: Lukwesa Burak.

Photo: Nigeria president-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, (C), waves during the inauguration ceremony in Eagle Square venue in Abuja, Nigeria, 29 May 2023.
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