There are corporate failures that deserve to be treated as ordinary business casualties. Companies rise, companies fall, markets change and inefficient businesses eventually disappear. But the demise of NICON Insurance Limited is different.
Faruku Musa Haruna and other farmers in Kumfada used to pool their money to buy plastic sheets, trapping enough water to irrigate small patches of land. They wanted to keep farming after the rains, but their ambitions depended on how much water they could save.