Ndege's journalism career began at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as a 14 year old intern. After university she worked as a BBC graduate trainee, then landed her first job as a Researcher on BBC Panorama and worked her way up to become a Producer and Senior Producer on various news and current affairs programmes such as BBC Newsnight and on BBC Radio 4. Ndege was then talented spotted by BBC managers to be one of the corporation's on air faces. Ndege worked as an on-air Correspondent on BBC News, Breakfast, World and various other programmes covering the UK, Europe, and US in hard news and current affairs for close to 10 years. In 2007 she was headhunted by Al Jazeera English television to be one of the launch faces of the channel's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, Kenya. Less than two years later Ndege set up Al Jazeera's West Africa operation in Nigeria, where she led operations for over 7 years as Bureau Chief &amp; Correspondent for the region. Ndege made her name as a journalist covering major stories such as the post election violence in Kenya. Ndege was the first international journalist to report on the Boko Haram Islamic extremist uprising in northern Nigeria Boko Haram, the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping outrage in the country Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping and violence and oil pollution in Nigeria's oil rich Niger Delta region Conflict in the Niger Delta .