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| Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by MgbakorUche(op): 11:24pm On Nov 10, 2025 |
Nigeria just pulled off the biggest act of economic rebellion since independence — and the West is not happy. While most people argue about fuel prices, something deeper is happening: Tinubu quietly ended the 40-year subsidy drain that bled ₦7 trillion yearly. Dangote built a $20 billion refinery that can refine 650,000 barrels daily, ending our dependence on imported petrol. Nigeria’s GDP is set to expand by $25 billion, and Africa’s fuel bill could shrink by $60 billion. Meanwhile, the U.S. and Europe, who once sold us refined products are watching their market disappear. Trump’s latest speech on Nigeria hides behind religion, but the real anxiety is economic sovereignty. A black nation controlling its own energy destiny. Yes, there are labor issues, union battles, and billions owed to Chinese constructors — but that’s what revolutions look like: messy, loud, and unstoppable. 🔗 Read the full breakdown on Substack: [https://open.substack.com/pub/theafricansignal/p/trump-vs-dangote?r=5v63zm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false] 2 Likes |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by HgAkpobomeEr: 11:29pm On Nov 10, 2025 |
Sovereignty over everything. 4 Likes |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by Omoawoke(m): 11:35pm On Nov 10, 2025 |
Bandits are giving Nigerians sleepless nights The government and military are doing the barest minimum to protect the citizens 11 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by Dtribeless: 11:48pm On Nov 10, 2025 |
MgbakorUche:25 billion is chicken change. Dangote buys crude from America and sells. Nobody cares about some damn refinery. Nigerians in Texas are putting pressure on senator Ted Cruz to act on their behalf. Ted Cruz in turn is putting pressure on the us president to act concerned. If the terrorists kill 100000 people in Benue tomorrow, the us will do nothing because it does not care. This is just a pressure campaign; nothing more. Black country with its destiny that negotiates with killer bandits. Wake up!!!! 8 Likes |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by kanupapilo: 11:51pm On Nov 10, 2025 |
MgbakorUche:He is also giving Emefiele sleepless night. And the Americans have reservations about his economic impact according the Wikileaks.
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| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by kokoA(m): 11:57pm On Nov 10, 2025 |
Una to rate unaselves. 4 Likes |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by kanupapilo: 11:57pm On Nov 10, 2025 |
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| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by ibedun: 12:21am On Nov 11, 2025 |
Dtribeless:Igbo kwenu! Una be enemy within …..not all but a greater percentage of una. Nigeria will not fail by the grace of God. 4 Likes |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by Reflect7: 12:28am On Nov 11, 2025 |
Dtribeless:You mean IGBOS in Texas? Please be accurate. 5 Likes |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by kanupapilo: 12:32am On Nov 11, 2025 |
ibedun:
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| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by Dtribeless: 12:55am On Nov 11, 2025 |
Reflect7:Possibly, or middle-belt folks. |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by Dtribeless: 12:56am On Nov 11, 2025 |
ibedun:Nigeria is not succeeding either. This arrangement can never work. May you live long to confirm. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by arantess: 3:37am On Nov 11, 2025 |
A butterfly that thinks it's a bird Keep playing you hear 2 Likes |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by tesseract: 3:50am On Nov 11, 2025 |
Small yanch dey shake...a small fish in a small pond making lots of noise like an empty barrel. Smh 2 Likes |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by Dogalmighty17: 4:11am On Nov 11, 2025 |
Some Nigerians are just sooo intellectually lazy that they can't be bothered to take out the time to do basic research. The author of this post should know that since the beginning of Dangote refinery operations, the United States has been its major crude supplier. Some components of that refinery, were fabricated and assembled in the US before being shipped to Nigeria. The United States remains a major destination of the refinery's output. If the United States wants to seriously affect dangotes refinery, it has powerful and clandestine tools at its disposal for that. 4 Likes |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by SmartPolician: 4:40am On Nov 11, 2025*. Modified: 7:54am On Nov 11, 2025 |
ibedun:Keep writing nonsense because your family members h@ven't been m@ssacred yet. Keep defending that Escóbàr. I even thought that Owo church m@ssacre would teach these morons something. Everything is politics to you people, even when your own people are being killed. 2 Likes |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by ebukal67x: 5:14am On Nov 11, 2025 |
No foreign interference allowed. We will solve our problems ourselves. 1 Like |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by SpatialKing(m): 5:18am On Nov 11, 2025 |
Reflect7:Are Igbos not Nigerians anymore? And what is wrong if Igbos are standing up for Christianity in Nigeria? 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by carzeem1: 6:29am On Nov 11, 2025 |
Technology the world is phasing out is what you think Trump is after? Even when Nigeria was importing heavily, most of the petrol was from Asia, and some low income cheap European countries like Malta that could compromise on standard to meet the demands of Nigerian market. Does the refinery provides electricity to plants and houses? Energy needs of Nigeria for 200 million plus citizen can only be sustained with a nuclear reactor which Nigeria can not achieve or get approval. Without electricity, no industries so what's the clamour about? Trump is not here because of dangote refinery that's not even worth the cost of some hotels in las vegas. Certainly some global politics in play which also the Christian genocide has set the proper timing to engage, these politics we can only guess and postulate. |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by Elusive001: 7:27am On Nov 11, 2025 |
Dtribeless:Nigeria WILL NEVER WORK as presently constituted, NEVER! |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by WantsandMore: 7:31am On Nov 11, 2025*. Modified: 8:53pm On Jan 02 |
kokoA:If you read the untold stories of the USA 200-300 years ago, you’ll know that’s how they started from owing 3.8billion dollars, to been a creditor of over 60 billion dollars all because they rates themselves and made a fortune from the world wars, infact there was a time the USA felt it was their destiny to spread democracy and civilization across the globe, this was a time the USA was no bigger than Nigeria in gdp been a majorly immigrant country. If you no rate yourself, who go rate you? 1 Like |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by Elusive001: 7:32am On Nov 11, 2025 |
ibedun:Yes, we are "enemies" within. What will you guys do about it? Nothing, absolutely nothing! We dey gidigba. Make the Nigeria we una father's fought to keep make progress make we see. That una hatred for the Igboman will forever be the albatross of una country, Nigeria. We go dey always support honest, competent, fair, and just candidates for presidential elections and we know say una hatred go always make una support evil, corrupt, unjust, greedy men to spite Igbos. |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by Elusive001: 7:35am On Nov 11, 2025 |
Reflect7:And so? Igbos dey gidigbam. At least this one shake una and una terrorists foot soldiers. Make una dey pursue the Igboman, while hardship, suffering, and terrorists overrun una country. People wey their house dey on fire wey dey pursue rats. |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by Jomonix: 7:48am On Nov 11, 2025*. Modified: 8:09am On Nov 11, 2025 |
MgbakorUche:No doubt the Dangote Refinery is a game-changer for Nigeria. However, concentrating that much refining capacity in one single location is a massive risk. Any disruption—technical, security, or otherwise—could have devastating nationwide consequences.. 1 Like |
| Re: Tinubu, Dangote & The Refinery That’s Giving America Sleepless Nights by fuckingAyaya(m): 8:31am On Nov 11, 2025 |
Which dangote refinery Is giving trump sleepless nights? Texas alone has 47 refinery's how many refinery's do we have in Africa as a whole? 😁😁😁 lagos ibadan Express media I hail una oooo! So because we are a sovereign nation we should look away while marauding supporters of APC maim and dislodge people from their ancestral land? When you hypocrites connived and ousted GEJ from power that made Nigeria the best economy in Africa and 3rd in the world with the help of same US they were jealous of GEJ and dangote then? 😁😁😁 yoruba I hail una oooo!! |
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