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'This is our company': Nigerians show off oil wealth after share-buying frenzy
Many Nigerians buy their first ever shares - in the oil refinery owned by Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote.
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At least that is what the social media memes would have you believe as investor fever hits the country.
Nigerians have been eager to have a piece of the energy business that was built up by the country's – and continent's – richest man: Aliko Dangote.
More than four billion shares in his giant oil refinery – representing just over 3% of the company - went on the market on Monday in Africa's biggest-ever sale of its kind.
Twenty-five-year-old clothes seller Idris Lawal Musa made his first-ever stock exchange purchase and told the BBC he was happy after investing 21,000 naira ($16; £12) in 40 shares.