NOTHING SEEMS awry on arrival at the Ajaokuta Steel Company near Lokoja in central Nigeria. Nestled in scrubland are rows of depots, mills, and furnaces; the complex covers 800 hectares or four times the size of Monaco. Inside the main building workers amble through the foyer, barely noticing a sugg
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