Ifeanyi Uddin

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Bolshevik. Fond of the price mechanism. Critical of the living. I also speak ill of the dead. Columnist @PremiumTimes, Nigeria.
"'Queue' is just one letter followed by four silent letters. They must be waiting for their turn." | Internet proverb (courtesy Danny Bate's "Why Q Needs U")

"The war’s clearest winners may well be neither America nor Iran, but an unlikely pairing of oil companies and congressional Democrats." | @theeconomist

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/03/19/america-may-be-a-petrostate-but-the-energy-shock-still-hurts

America may be a petrostate. But the energy shock still hurts

America's shift from energy importer to exporter reshapes how oil price spikes from Middle East conflicts affect different regions, industries and income groups.

The Economist
From The Economist's Espresso.

CAF's award of its prime cup competition to Morocco has led to calls for "Black African" nations to withdraw from the competition in favour of North Africans.

Growing up, such was Issa Hayatou's perceived balefulness that the call was for a boycott against Cameroon.

Did Donald Trump (with an eye on the wild gyrations in the global energy markets) issue a near-apology for Israel's "rogue" attack on Iran's South Pars gas field?
From The Economist's Espresso.
Birds of Lagos (Common Bulbul - Pycnonotus barbatus).
Birds of Lagos (Red-eyed Dove - Streptopelia semitorquata).

"Messrs Trump and Netanyahu will claim victory however the war ends, but their voters may take some convincing." | @theeconomist

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2026/03/10/americas-war-aims-may-be-diverging-from-israels

America’s war aims may be diverging from Israel’s

For Binyamin Netanyahu they are, as ever, a question of politics

The Economist
Birds of Lagos (Shikra -Tachyspiza badia).