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China built a $20 billion oil refinery in Nigeria, and Europe is furious.
Nigeria, one of Africa's largest oil producers, had no refinery. For decades, it exported crude and imported gasoline at markup. China's Dangote Oil Refinery in Lagos changed that. Now Nigeria is exporting refined gasoline instead of just raw crude.
The refinery is operating at 94% of its 650,000-barrel-per-day capacity, meeting domestic demand with surplus shipped abroad. In March, Nigeria exported approximately 44,000 barrels of gasoline per day. A single shipment of 317,000 barrels reached Mozambique—the first delivery to East Africa.
Production is projected to reach 1.4 million barrels per day within three years, making it Africa's largest refinery.
For decades, Western oil majors kept Nigeria dependent while extracting crude, refining it abroad, and selling it back at a premium. China built the infrastructure Europe refused to. Now Nigeria controls its own energy supply chain, and European refiners are losing a captive market.
This is what economic sovereignty looks like. This shouldn’t surprise any of our subs, we covered this story back in November on DD Geopolitics.
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🇨🇴🇦🇷 Gustavo Petro asks the question the West does not want answered.
"If Argentina is an exporter of quality meat, why can't Argentinians eat quality meat and are stuck eating donkey meat?"
That is not just a question about Argentina. That is a question about the entire Global South.
Countries rich in resources. Oil. Gold. Lithium. Cocoa. Coffee. Beef. Yet their own people cannot afford what they produce.
Argentina exports premium beef to Europe and China. Argentinians eat donkey meat.
Nigeria exports oil. Nigerians queue for hours for subsidized fuel.
DRC exports cobalt. Congolese miners live on less than $2 a day.
Ghana exports cocoa. Ghanaian children have never tasted quality chocolate.
The system is designed to extract, not to feed. Produce for the West. Starve at home.
Petro is right. This cannot happen in Colombia. And it should not happen anywhere in Africa or the Global South.
The question is not why Argentinians eat donkey meat. The question is who profits from that arrangement.
It's time to change the answer.

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Guess who is opposing Dangote’s proposal to build a 1.2M barrels a day refinery in east Africa (Tanzania, Kenya and Congo)
World Bank and IMF. : )))
Their argument? it would give monopoly to one company over energy.
1) All the while, French refineries are in almost every oil producing countries in Africa.
2) No African countries could get a loan to build a refinery larger than 400,000 barrels per day (one of the most profitable businesses ever). So the majority are small and struggle for profitability.
3) Nigeria oil had to be exported to Europe, refined and in many cases sold back to Nigeria and ECOWAS countries, under companies like shell and total.
4) it took until a billionaire financed the refinery in Nigeria himself to change part of that production and supply pipeline. And today, after the Hormuz blockade, EU countries are now buying oil from Dangote.


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this guy here is shakespeare in the flesh
About Music@AboutMusicYT
William Shakespeare turns 462 years old.
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🇿🇦 “80% of our land in South Africa is white-owned… and yet our enemy is our black brothers?”
— A South African youth questions.
Land owned by individuals in South Africa 🇿🇦
White 72%
Coloured 14%
Indian 5%
Black South Africans 4%
81.4% of South Africans are Black ...
But your brothers from other African countries are your problem.
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🚨José Mourinho on Pep Guardiola vs Sir Alex Ferguson:
“I hear people comparing Pep Guardiola to Alex Ferguson and I smile, because for me it is not the same story."
"For me, it is simple: one made history. The other makes… triangles.”
Ferguson built dynasties across different generations, different styles, different challenges. He wins titles with youth, with experience, with players adapting every season. That is evolution."
Pep? Fantastic coach, beautiful football, yes. But always the perfect conditions, the perfect structure, the perfect orchestra already tuned for him."
"Ferguson creates the orchestra. Pep conducts it."
"Big difference.”


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“Remove immunity. Monitor the powerful. Follow the money.”
Back in 2007, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua proposed a bold anti-corruption plan—scrap immunity for top officials and introduce independent monitors to track assets, bank accounts, and wealth of those in power.
Nearly two decades later, his words still hit hard.
Nigeria doesn’t lack ideas. It needs the will to act.
— Yar’Adua (Sept. 2007)
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