Dial Back to ‘Palasa’: Nigerians abandon android smartphones for basic feature phones 

By Elizabeth AdegbesanIn an unexpected twist across Africa’s largest mobile market, a quiet revolution is happening in reverse.Millions of Nigerian consumers are locking away their sleek, internet-connected Android smartphones. Instead, they are returning to basic, non-Android ‘feature phones’ due to the crushing costs of mobile data and airtime, Economy&Lifestyle discovered.The luxury of staying on-lineA brutal combination of inflation, currency deprec