His lachrymose mien says it all. A trader of Igbo extraction who had spent several years in the northern part of the country with a long spell of blossoming era, the story to tell these days is how he is straddling in the valley of life, away from the mountain.
For Mike Kanu, the middle aged trader in Maiduguri, Borno State, the chummy era has come an end, no thanks to the virulent Boko Haram insurgency.
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