{"id":40621,"date":"2023-02-27T16:44:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T16:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=40621"},"modified":"2023-02-27T16:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T16:44:41","slug":"robbing-peter-to-pay-paul-winners-losers-of-nigerias-border-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=40621","title":{"rendered":"Robbing Peter to pay Paul: Winners, losers of Nigeria\u2019s border closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2019 was Nigeria\u2019s most successful in terms of exports to other West African countries. Analysis of official trade data shows this much, but it was also the year Nigeria suddenly shut its land borders, effectively closing trade with neighbours for several months to follow&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/businessday.ng\/features\/article\/robbing-peter-to-pay-paul-winners-losers-of-nigerias-border-closure\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2019 was Nigeria\u2019s most successful in terms of exports to other West African<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/40621-robbing-peter-to-pay-paul-winners-losers-of-nigerias-border-closure.jpg",700,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/40621-robbing-peter-to-pay-paul-winners-losers-of-nigerias-border-closure-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/40621-robbing-peter-to-pay-paul-winners-losers-of-nigerias-border-closure-300x171.jpg",300,171,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/40621-robbing-peter-to-pay-paul-winners-losers-of-nigerias-border-closure.jpg",640,366,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/40621-robbing-peter-to-pay-paul-winners-losers-of-nigerias-border-closure.jpg",640,366,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/40621-robbing-peter-to-pay-paul-winners-losers-of-nigerias-border-closure.jpg",700,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/40621-robbing-peter-to-pay-paul-winners-losers-of-nigerias-border-closure.jpg",700,400,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/40621-robbing-peter-to-pay-paul-winners-losers-of-nigerias-border-closure.jpg",700,400,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/40621-robbing-peter-to-pay-paul-winners-losers-of-nigerias-border-closure.jpg",700,400,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/40621-robbing-peter-to-pay-paul-winners-losers-of-nigerias-border-closure-590x400.jpg",590,400,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}