article_snippet.sent: It's a place where poor children rise at dawn to sift through the trash cans for food and black magic is practiced by the side of the road at dusk.
article_snippet.sent: And when you don't really make money but simply take money from the soil and sell money, a crude kind of crony capitalism develops in which who you know is far more important than what you know.
article_snippet.sent: Graft trickles down through the system; through family, through patronage and through shady deals done with foreign businessmen at the 24-hour party palace at the Abuja Hilton Hotel.
article_snippet.sent: The richest buy off the anger of the poorest, and vast swaths of society become complicit in the crime.