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The Diaspora Has the Money, Lagos Has the Land. So Why Is the Deal Still Broken?The third instalment of The Lagos Real Estate Truth Files examines why billions of dollars in diaspora capital keep flowing into Nigerian real estate, and why so much of it keeps being lost.
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