Northern Nigeria’s Economy Bites Harder Under Security Lockdown
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Straddling a caravan route to the Sahara, the city of Sokoto has since ancient times been a major trading hub in Nigeria’s extreme northwest savannah. But a surge in attacks and mass school kidnappings by criminal gangs, known locally as bandits, has dealt the region a terrible blow, making farming and trading…