Global Population To Hit 8B This Year
July 11th, 2022
Via CBS News, an article on a new UN report that the global population will hit 8 billion this year, with more than half of the rise forecast in the world’s population in the coming decades will be concentrated in eight countries – Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania: […]
Read more »It’s Africa’s Century
May 16th, 2022
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a report on Africa’s century ahead: In the coming decades, we face a revolutionary shift in the balance of world affairs—and it is likely not the one you are thinking of. Since the 1990s, the idea that we might be entering an “Asian century” has preoccupied and disorientated the West. However, […]
Read more »Dangote’s Timely Fertilizer Plant Pays off As Prices Soar
May 6th, 2022
Via African Business, an article on Dangote’s new Nigerian fertilizer plant: What better time to launch a fertiliser plant than when global prices are at their record highs? That’s exactly what Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, did. On March 22, Dangote’s $2.5bn fertiliser plant in Nigeria’s economic capital, Lagos, started production. The 3-million tons a […]
Read more »Germany Should Look to Africa for Gas, Not Russia
March 20th, 2022
Via Foreign Policy, an article on Africa’s potential to provide gas to Germany: With the United States and United Kingdom banning Russian energy exports and the European Union announcing it will reduce Russian gas imports by two-thirds by the end of the year, the West is urgently debating how to replace Russian energy deliveries. The […]
Read more »Nigeria’s Economic Woes
June 6th, 2019
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at Nigeria’s economic woes: Long Lines of lorries stretch like tentacles from Apapa port, the largest in Nigeria. Drivers doze in their cabs, feet flung over dashboards; some sling hammocks beneath the chassis. Musa Ibrahim, an ebullient trader, says he has been queuing for two days. He gestures at […]
Read more »Lagos: Soon To Be Africa’s 13th Biggest Economy – Equivalent To Ghana
May 18th, 2013
Via How We Made It In Africa, a report on Lagos’ economic power: Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub, could soon have a US$45 billion economy – equivalent to that of Ghana, according to a recent report produced by Renaissance Capital economist Yvonne Mhango. Mhango says that the size of Lagos State’s economy is currently about US$32 […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.