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Nigeria counts the cost of eating leather

15/08/2002

Nigeria is losing $150 million annually in foreign exchange earnings, according to the country’s tanning industry.

The reason is the national ‘delicacy’ of ponomo (hide and skin) soup.

According to master tanner Gambo Paiko, every year more than 1.6 million pieces of hides and skins out of the 1.7 million pieces produced in Nigeria end up in soup pots.

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