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How Aba’s traders sparked a $900m power gamble in Southeast
3 weeks agoAba’s traders sparked a $900m power gamble
In March 2003, when Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, then Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, visited Aba with James Wolfensohn, the former president of the World Bank, the complaints from the city’s traders and manufacturers were not about access to markets, a shortage of customers or the absence of business ideas. Their biggest problem was electricity.