On an especially hot and humid Nigerian day earlier this month, President Olusegun Obasanjo's patience snapped. For the past week, the state-owned National Electric Power Authority (Nepa), notoriously unreliable at the best of times, had failed customers across the country, leaving the stand-by generators in factories and businesses and homes of a wealthy few working overtime...more

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