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[6] Uchendu Wogu, ” FG indicted over influx of fake electrical products “, Post Express, 9 November 1998.

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[11] Middle East News Items, 30 September 1997.

[12] Geertz, Peddlers and Princes: Social Change and Economic Modernization in Two Indonesian Towns, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1963, p. 35.

[13] Abdou Maliq Simone, Urban Processes and Change in Africa, p. 105.