{"id":211843,"date":"2026-02-28T05:38:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=211843"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:38:52","slug":"the-130bn-heist-how-africas-energy-elite-are-vacuuming-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=211843","title":{"rendered":"The $130bn heist: How Africa\u2019s energy elite are vacuuming capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not innovation. It\u2019s infrastructure arbitrage and the West just woke up In the pantheon of African business, few names command more respect than Femi Otedola, Tony Elumelu, and Aliko Dangote. These titans didn\u2019t build empires by chasing deals; they engineered systems. And in the high stakes\u2019 world of African energy&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nairametrics.com\/2026\/01\/17\/the-130bn-heist-how-africas-energy-elite-are-vacuuming-capital\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not innovation. It\u2019s infrastructure arbitrage and the West just woke up In the pantheon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}