Eight years ago, Mark James (not real name) was one of the people who lined the streets of Lagos carrying placards in protest against Federal Government announcement on January 1, 2012, that it was quashing a 30-year-old petroleum subsidy that was both expensive as it was wasteful. James, a middl
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