Nigeria: How Power Cuts Cripple Small Businesses

[Premium Times] "Up NEPA!" about a dozen teenagers playing within the verandah of the three-storey building housing Bola Kareem's shop screamed. Bola is not a teenager, but he joined in the cacophonous jubilation nevertheless. The 32-year-old embroiderer explained that the neighborhood's electricity had just been restored after two weeks of blackout.