"There were a lot of Indians living here with no eating places," said Mr. Ahmed, who saw Indian customers as his main market when he arrived in 1974.
A day earlier in neighbouring Borno state another young girl, who is also believed to have been about 10 years old, was stopped for a security check in the capital's main market when bombs strapped to her detonated, killing at least 16 people.
When Ocado floated in 2010, its 281-page flotation prospectus – the main marketing document when a company sells its shares to City investors – barely mentioned the tech idea at all, and certainly didn't find room to crowbar it into the sections entitled "strengths of the Ocado business", or the bit they called "Ocado's strategy".
Rental yields are 6% or so in the main markets, an attractive income stream when European corporate bonds yield just 4%.
Onazi, 21, who was born in Jos, had just left the popular Jos Main Market last Tuesday, when the first blast rocked the area.
On 26 January, the anniversary of India's republic, he was returning from the main market in Robertsgunj when a "man, possibly in his thirties" came from behind, pressed a gun sideways to his head, fired a single shot and ran away.
But he acknowledged that his business had suffered because of the financial crisis in parts of the developed world, and he predicted that demand for renewable energy would be "flat" in some of his company's main markets, including the United States, until 2012, when growth could take off again strongly.
This is apt to discourage prudence, and the imprudent, however talented and ingenious, make mistakes.Debts are also a main reason why mistakes in financial markets, when they happen, can have bigger consequences than errors in an economy's less excitable parts.
All its main markets will be mature.
The two main markets were burned down.
