This week on Techpoint: Rising, decline and (possible) demise

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May 13, 2017
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In the 1960s, before Otigba street and its environs became the world famous technology marketplace (Computer Village) we know and love, it was a wide expanse of farmlands.

By 1979, Murtala Mohammed Airport was commissioned and along came the 'warehousing trend'. Before long, it became a full-blown technology hub which generates an estimated yearly revenue of $2 billion.

But on the 25th of April, 2017, the Lagos state government announced its intentions to relocate Computer Village to the ICT park, Katangowa in Agbado.

For Ben, and many other entrepreneurs who have been in the Computer Village for decades, the government's decision is devastating

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