Guests sat in white-seated rows under a gleaming chandelier while women swathed in pink and green paraded down a runway set in front of a gold pipe organ.

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L-shaped table in an office in Lagos, discussing a story on that morning's front page about an oil-pipe explosion.

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Rather than gushing from the end of a pipe, pollution trickles from front lawns, city streets and parking lots.

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