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Nigeria's love of champagne takes sales growth to second highest in world
Not everyone in country where 63% live on less than $1 a day is impressed with the $50m and rising spent each year on fizz. The lyrics to Pop Champagne – one of many Nigerian pop songs to pay homage to the ubiquitous French drink – are self explanatory. "We dey pop champagne, pop pop pop pop, pop champagne!" the song goes, as a nightclub jumps with men holding bottles and women glasses full of bubbly. But Nigerians' love of champagne is fast becoming fact as well as legend – with new figures forecasting that champagne consumption in the west African country will reach 1.1 million litres by 2017, with 2011 ... (full story)