Nigeria's north risks growing sense of alienation

KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Standing on the dancefloor among shards of glass and splintered wood, Tony Baisie rues the day he agreed to help set up a nightclub in one of West Africa's oldest Islamic cities.

For more than 15 years this converted office on an industrial back street in Kano, northern Nigeria, was a thriving business. Customers -- Christian and Muslim -- would dance among its mirrored walls or shoot pool in the courtyard outside.