Let me congratulate a great Nigerian on this achievement: “In a significant milestone for Nigeria’s energy sector, the Dangote Oil Refinery commenced supplying petroleum products to the domestic market on Tuesday, according to sources familiar with the matter, cited by Reuters.”
Devakumar Edwin, a group executive at Dangote, confirmed the commencement of diesel and jet fuel distribution to the local market.
“We have substantial quantities. Products are being evacuated both by sea and road. Ships are lining up one after another to load diesel and aviation jet fuel. Ships load a minimum of 26 million liters, though we try to push for 37 million liters vessels, for ease of operations,” Edwin explained.
Yes, Dangote Refinery is delivering products, and will likely fix huge frictions in the Nigerian downstream oil and gas sector. This is a remarkable success and I want to congratulate Alhaji for this. The tenacity to build and get products into the market over financial engineering is how nations rise. Dangote is building Nigeria and this refinery is a BIG one for Africa.
Watch out – some refineries in Europe will go bankrupt, just as some UK universities are firing workers and phasing out courses because Nigerian students are staying home due to forex paralysis and other matters: “At least 15 universities in the United Kingdom have publicly announced staff layoffs and course closures, prompted by a significant decline in overseas postgraduate student enrollments this past January, according to University World News.” – Nairametrics.
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In the United Kingdom, at least 15 universities have publicly announced staff layoffs and course closures, which was prompted by a significant decline in overseas postgraduate student enrollments this past January.
This is directly related to the UK government’s stance on reducing international student numbers
Concerns are now mounting that undergraduate student recruitment may also decline in the upcoming academic year, exacerbated by the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.
Nairametrics reports that the higher education landscape in the United Kingdom has seen many universities ranging from prestigious Russell Group universities to mid-tier universities and Scottish institutions, issuing alerts about potential course reductions and staff layoffs
Then imagine what a working Nigeria/Africa will do to the economy of Europe if just one January is ripping universities this way? #build.
“At least 15 universities in the United Kingdom have publicly announced staff layoffs and course closures, prompted by a significant decline in overseas postgraduate student enrollments this past January, according to University World News.” – Nairametrics.
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Nigeria has a major forex problem and enrollments into UK universities dropped. Now, UK universities are in a mess as many do not even have internal resilience. Think of it, just because they’re off by one year, they are already in this condition.
Then imagine what a working Africa will do to Europe. It will give us respect because largely we’re a FORCE for good and advancing the economic spheres of nations. But that can only happen if we put our homes in order. A working Africa will bring respect to all of us. Today, Africa does not get respect even though we’re building nations with our resources in many ways.
Let me repeat: if Nigerian students do not go to UK schools, within ten years, more than 15% will close shops! Of course, we have no problems with UK schools; we’re only focusing on making sure that Africans know the powers they have. And those powers could also work in the homelands.
Local Marketers Set Diesel Price At N1,225 Per Liter As Dangote Refinery Begins Supply
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It’s a big one, Aliko Dangote is a large Nigerian. Just like Allen Onyema has demonstrated that it’s possible to serve Nigerians at cheaper rate than foreign entities, that price of N1225 for a litre of diesel needs to be looked into again. It’s diesel that determines price of food items here, so if it’s still up there, don’t expect cost of food to come down. If it’s a crude oil supply issue, it needs to be resolved, so that every Nigerian can notice some difference between imported diesel and Dangote Refinery diesel.
Keep them coming…
As for the struggling UK universities, if this kind of report does not wake up most Nigerians and larger Africans, I wonder what will. Please don’t tell me politicians this or leadership that, because it is the PEOPLE that determine what their country becomes, and not politicians. Which opportunities do you find in the UK or elsewhere that cannot be replicated across Africa? We just remain determined to be ‘follow-follow’ and still find ways to justify such ineptitude and lack of initiative.
There’s no saner clime anywhere, until the sons and daughters of the land rise up and take responsibility. Many countries set up ridiculous universities purely for foreign students, and we sheepishly troop in, without sitting down to ever ask ourselves why the traffic isn’t flowing in our direction too. The mental slavery has lasted beyond the imagination of the perpetrators, so it’s no longer their fault but ours.
If you don’t build your home front, whatever you do elsewhere will fall short, because if truly have what it takes to do it, then do it in your Motherland, else just look for somewhere and hide.
The day of reckoning is fast approaching.