According to a Gallup survey, 53% of Nigerian adults would like to leave the country. Airline tickets bought inside Nigeria have to be purchased in Naira by law. The only place that airlines are really able to then exchange the Naira into their preferred currencies is with the Nigerian central bank. With dwindling oil revenues, meager exports, and currency interventions, which have drained Nigeria's foreign exchange coffers, thecentral bank basically has no dollars to sell.
Hints of the long campaign ahead are emerging, but all the operations so far are just drawing the eventual, full-scale battle lines. Cheap vaccinations could save millions of lives lost to cervical cancer; we ask why and where jab rates are falling. And why airlines have more money tied up in Nigeria than in the rest of the world combined.
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