Both formal and informal firms in southeastern Nigeria are losing business due to stay-at-home orders announced by separatists in the region. The 34-year old businessman runs a small chain of Point of Sale terminal operator shops that act as informal banks across Onitsha, arguably Nigeria’s biggest commercial nerve centre outside Lagos. “Onitsha is heavily dependent on its market activities everybody …
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A Nigerian soldier controls the traffic in Aba, in a pro-Biafra separatist zone. Then an anthem begins to play, and a voice says “Kedu” — “how are you” in the Igbo language — to welcome listeners to the daily broadcast of Radio Biafra. Ultimately, the rebels surrendered and the area was reintegrated into Nigeria under the government motto “No victor, …
