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They priced retail slices at four dollars and millions rushed in, and Firstpost Africa’s Alyson Le Grange was there to watch the chaos. This initial public offering (IPO) of the Dangote Lagos Refinery is being sold as a “people’s IPO,” a symbolic handover of Africa’s biggest industrial asset to everyday savers. The video captures a real contradiction: a headline-grabbing exercise in local ownership happening while many Nigerians face double-digit inflation and must decide between today’s meal and tomorrow’s share certificate. It matters because it is both political theater and a genuine structural bet on African energy independence.