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Guinness' Booming Market: Nigeria

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 17, 2009 6:26 PM CDT

(Newser) – Guinness may be synonymous with Ireland, but Nigerians down more of the stuff than the Emerald Isle, GlobalPost reports. Nigerians also out-Guinness the US—their country is second only to the UK in its consumption of the beer and is home to the first Guinness... Read full story »

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