Nigeria wants businesses registered in hours, yet it takes months

The constant breakdown of its servers is one of the major barriers to registering a company in Africa’s largest economy.

Hassana (not her real name) is wedged behind her HP workstation with stacks of documents required to register a client’s business in a one-room apartment in Jabi, Abuja. On a table nearby, a scanner and a printer whir along as she spends monotonous hours signing and scanning document after documen

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