On a recent Friday night at an upmarket Lagos nightclub, the sound of Afrobeats filled the air. On the dance floor, a man launched bank notes worth N1,000 each (about 60 cents) over a throng of women dancing around him.
Until recently, the scene would have been unremarkable. Nigerians have long indulged in “spraying” — throwing cash over friends for fun at parties or as a gift to married couples at weddings.
But the man that night was risking a six-month jail sentence due to an unusual crackdown by Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency on “naira abuse”.
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