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What Nigeria can learn from other rapidly urbanizing areas

Makeshift stalls are seen submerged along river Ogun as it overflows its bank near a livestock market outside Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos October 6, 2016.REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye     TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY      - D1AEUFLRIZAA

A livestock market outside Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos is flooded. Image: REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - D1AEUFLRIZAA

John Rennie Short
Professor, School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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