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$5 billion swap deal raises questions despite Nigeria’s record $54.6 billion reserves

There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over a shop in Balogun Market when the owner returns from the moneylender. Consider a textile trader who has just closed the best season of her working life. The lace is moving, the Ankara is moving, the customers from Cotonou have come back, and f...

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