Talba Goni has been trying, without luck, to secure government funds or loans to restart a textile plant in Kaduna, the former industrial heartland in northern Nigeria, that he was running until it closed almost 15 years ago.

“We were not able to meet up with those conditions to access the funding. … The bureaucracy, you have to give this, you have to give that,” he said. “There should be concessions, like the company income tax, a waiver for about three to four years.”

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