Nigeria: One Man's Trash - How Garbage Could Solve Nigeria's Energy Crisis

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Experts believe that Nigeria's capital city, Lagos, can be energy-sufficient if it can tap into the latent power of its organic garbage, so why has an innovative project to turn food waste into power been abandoned, leaving millions of Nigerians in the dark? By ADELANA OLAJIDE.

Two kids run across the road shouting, "Thief! Thief!" as a big rat races away into a nearby hole for refuge. The rat was trying to snack on some well ripened banana for lunch.

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