Happy Eid-ul- Mawlid To All Muslims

Monday, September 16, 2024 is  Public Holiday in Nigeria to mark the celebration of the Eid-ul-Mawlid, the birth of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him).

Enjoy "The Message"

This epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history. This epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history.

The Making of The Message
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/08/07/485234999/40-years-on-a-controversial-film-on-islams-origins-is-now-a-classic

About Islamic Cinema in Nigeria

ISLAMIC CINEMA in Nigeria (ICN) is an initiative of the duly Incorporated International Digital Post Network Limited for the production, distribution and promotion of Islamic films for screenings at cinemas for the following purpose:

* The Promotion of the true Tenets of Islam as the religion of love, peace and unity for the benefit of humanity.

* Public enlightenment and entertainment for Muslims and non-Muslims with pure and true Islamic films.

* Correction of the misinformation on Islam as the religion of terrorism and Muslims as intolerant people who breed terrorists.

For Partnership and Sponsorship of the production, distribution, exhibition and promotion of Islamic films in Nigeria, contact:
International Digital Post Network Limited
Tel: +234 706 637 9246

The Problem with Made in China?

Photo illustration by Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima. ©All rights reserved. 2024.

The Problem with Made in China

Briefing Manufacturing in Asia

The Economist, January 13th, 2007.

Page 68-70

It is worth reading if you missed the issue.

Can Nigeria become the China of Africa?

Why did the American firms ignore Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa with the largest market on the continent for the location of their factories?

Nigeria does not have the required utilities for the mass production of their products?

Can Nigeria become in Africa what China has become in Asia?

Labour is cheaper in Nigeria than China.

Transportation by railway is also cheaper.

The major hindrance is lack of regular power supply?

CIG Motors of China has an assembly plant in Lagos in spite of the challenges of doing business in Nigeria.

The Capitalism of Made in China should be a good title for a book on how American capitalism dines and wines with communism in China.

This should be a case study on the international politics of the economics of Made in China factories of blue chip American firms.

Big American Companies with factories in China include the following:

General Motors
Nike Store
Boeing
Coca Cola
KFC

Microsoft
Procter & Gamble
Starbucks
Intel
Walmart

Like the phenomenal Asian Tigers, can we see the emergence of the African Lions in global trade led by Nigeria?

- Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima
 The CEO,
International Digital Post Network Limited

Video: Dangote Refinery: Seeing is Believing!

 

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery
Dangote Oil Refinery is a 650,000 barrels per day (BPD) integrated refinery project under construction in the Lekki Free Zone near Lagos, Nigeria. It is expected to be Africa’s biggest oil refinery and the world’s biggest single-train facility.

Art photography by Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima. September 22024.

The Pipeline Infrastructure at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery is the largest anywhere in the world, with 1,100 kilometers to handle 3 Billion Standard Cubic Foot of gas per day. The Refinery alone has a 435MW Power Plant that is able to meet the total power requirement of Ibadan DisCo.

The Refinery will meet 100% of the Nigerian requirement of all refined products and also have a surplus of each of these products for export. Dangote Petroleum Refinery is a multi-billion dollar project that will create a market for $21 Billion per annum of Nigerian Crude. It is designed to process Nigerian crude with the ability to also process other crudes."

Facts about Dangote Refinery

1. It is located in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, covering a land area of approximately 2,635 hectares.

2. The refinery is the world’s largest single train with a capacity of 650,000 barrels per day with a 900 KTPA Polypropylene plant.

3. The refinery is powered by a 435-megawatt (MW) power plant.

4  At full capacity, it can meet 100% of the Nigerian requirement of all refined products and also have surplus for exports.

5. Designed for 100% Nigerian crude with flexibility to process other crudes.

6. Self-sufficient marine facility with ability for freight optimization. Largest single order of 5 single-point mooring (SPMs) anywhere in the world.

7. Diesel and gasoline from the refinery will conform to Euro V specifications.

8. The refinery design complies with World Bank, US EPA, European emission norms and Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) emission/effluent norms.
Incorporates state-of-the-art technology.

9. Designed to process large variety of crudes, including many of the African crudes, some of the middle eastern crudes and the US Light Tight Oil.

10. 65 million cubic meters of sand dredged, costing approximately €300 million, using the world’s largest dredgers.

11  Bought over 1,200 units of various equipment to enhance the local capacity for site works.

12. Bought 332 cranes to build up equipment installation capacity.

13. Built the world’s largest granite quarry to supply coarse aggregate, stone column material, stone base, stone dust and material for breakwater (10 million tons per year production capacity).

14.  Developed a port and constructed two quays with a load bearing capacity of 25 tons/square meter to bring over dimensional cargoes close to the site directly.

15. Constructed two more quays in the port with a capacity to handle up to Panamax vessels to export, two quays to handle liquid cargoes. The port will have six quays, including a roll on/roll off quay.

16. In the course of the civil works, 700 piles were drilled on some days, with total number of piles up to 250,000.

17.  It has 177 tanks of up 4.742 billion liters capacity.

18. Dangote is one of the few companies in the world executing a Petroleum refinery and a Petrochemical complex directly as an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor.

19. Trained 900 young engineers in refinery operations abroad. Mechanical Engineers trained in the GE University in Italy. Process Engineers trained by Honeywell/Universal Oil Products (UOP) for six months.

https://dangote.com/our-business/oil-and-gas/

An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, this "wonderful history of the golden age of the movie moguls" (Chicago Tribune ) is a provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry.

Read it on Amazon Books

An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood