ILORIN, Nigeria: Adebayo Sulaimon was just getting ready for the day when officers from the Nigerian Police Force raided the 23-year-old graduate’s compound in the southwestern town of Ilorin to arrest him and his roommate.
Sulaimon’s crime, police told him as they took him away that October morning, was trading cryptocurrency, something he had started doing a month before the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) stepped up its efforts to ban the practice in February.
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