Bisi Ezerioha a.k.a. Ndubisi Ezerioha, professional race car driver, engine builder, engineer, and industrialist

Bisi Ezerioha (born January 6, 1972) a.k.a. Ndubisi Ezerioha, is a professional racing driver, engine builder, engineer, and industrialist. He is involved in import drag racing, and currently pilots a 2006 Honda Insight in the pro stock ranks of IDRA (battle of the imports), IDRC and CMI series. Bisi has built and driven the fastest and quickest carbureted FWD in the world. He is the current CEO and chief engineer for Bisimoto Engineering.

Bisimoto

Superstreet article

Autograph signing

NHRA Pomon

Burnout to a win!

Bisimoto 9 sec pass

Portflow ported head with Bisimoto springs and retainers, and supertech valves

Bisimoto level 3.6 turbo camshaft

Sandwich plate for turbo feed line and oil pressure gauge

Rocker assembly going on...ready to degree in Bisimoto Turbo 3.6 camshaft

Arias coated 9:1 pistons in place, with golden eagle sleeved block.

Torco assembly lube at work

Bisimoto/turbonetics BTX6565 turbo

 He attended the Anambra State University of Technology at the age of 15 to study Petrochemical Engineering. Born of Nigerian parents, Father, Dr. Emesia Ezerioha holds bachelor's degrees in Earth sciences and Geology from California State University, Los Angeles, Master's degrees in Earth Science and Economics and a doctorate in International Marketing. After a year of studies in West Africa, Ezerioha transferred to Cerritos College and graduated with Honors in Applied and Natural Science Associate degrees, and finally obtaining a Chemical Engineering bachelors and Engineering Management degrees from California State University, Long Beach. After a decade of pharmaceutical research and sales, he opened an engineering firm, Bisimoto Engineering, focusing on design, manufacturing and sales of high performance parts for motorsports. Ezerioha's accolades include the most powerful naturally aspirated sohc honda engines on the planet involving the D16A6, D15B7, F22A, F18A and D16Z6.^[2] His escapades now expand to the turbocharged market with a 700 hp 1.6L sohc powered Honda civic wagon, 533 hp LEA1 1.5L CR-Z hybrid, a 1000+hp Honda Civic Si, a 602whp Hyundai Elantra GT, and many high HP twin turbocharged Porsche 911s.

Mr. Ezerioha's accomplishments have been documented worldwide by popular magazines like DSport, SuperStreet, Turbo Magazine, Sport Compact Car, Racecar Engineering, Honda Tuning, Performance Audio and Sound, Import Tuner, S3, OveRev, Total 911, Fast Car, and Full Throttle magazines.

With corporate support from American Honda and Hyundai Motor America, Ezerioha's range of supporting sponsors include,

• AEM
• PurOl Lubricants
• Outback Steakhouse
• NGK
• Racepack
• Holley
• Falken Tires
• MSD
• Golden Eagle
• Webcamshafts
• Kinsler fuel injection.

The 2014 Bisimoto Honda Odyssey is featured in Top Gear USA episode 'Cool Cars for Grownups' on July 8, 2014. Racing against a 2014 Porsche Cayenne Turbo S and a 2014 Mercedes AMG E63 S-model, the Odyssey was recognized as a great feat in Engineering design by numerous publications. At the 2014 SEMA show, Ezerioha showcased his company's newest creations for Honda America and Hyundai. He showcased two 2015 Honda Fit concepts and a 2015 Hyundai Sonata. The 2015 Bisimoto Hyundai Sonata has been recognized as the most powerful Sonata sedan in history with a record 708 hp, one greater than the Dodge Challenger Hellcat. The horsepower output would later be tuned up to 888 hp surpassing the team's earlier goal before the show. 

He Led team  Bisimoto to build a 2014 Honda Odyssey with 1029 hp showcased at the annual SEMA show.The van is featured on Autoweek  and Examiner. Bisimoto also showcased a 1000 hp Genesis coupe at the SEMA show, dominating reviews by Topgear, Autoblog and Edmunds. Ezerioha is featured in 2013 book 'Dragster Drivers. 

He designed and built a 530 HP Porsche 911 Twin Turbo Cabriolet, showcased at SEMA 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada, in the NGK Spark Plugs, booth. This was the world's first drive-by-wire air cooled Porsche engine, with CAN BUS added as well. His team also built a 602 WHP 2013 Hyundai Elantra GT, for Hyundai (HMA), showcased at SEMA 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada. At that time, the Bisimoto Elantra was touted as one of the most powerful Hyundais in the world. Honda invited Bisimoto Engineering and DSO Eyewear/MAD Industries to take part in the 2013 Honda Accord Project Vehicle Program. His 401 HP 2013 Honda Accord Coupe Grand Touring V6 retains the eco-friendly attributes of the Earth Dreams concept, while Bisimoto engine and exhaust enhancements increase the V-6 power output to an amazing 401 hp.

Following Honda's launch of a new grassroots racing program they invited three independent vehicle tuners to build and display their Civic Si concepts at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas, NV. Tuners were asked to push the limits of performance and style with their builds, and the vehicles on display to demonstrate the personalized potential of the Si Coupe and Sedan. Following the previous year’s amazing CR-Z build, Bisimoto Engineering delivered a 1004 hp version of the Civic Si Coupe featuring a turbocharged K24Z7 engine for American Honda's new 9th generation Civic Si, showcased at SEMA 2011, He also designed and built a 771 hp twin turbocharged watercooled Porsche 911, with a 997 Porsche gearbox in an older 1976 widebody 911 for NGK Sparkplugs, showcased at SEMA 2011.

2010 seemingly marked a shift in Ezerioha's company philosophy as they looked to focus more on engine and vehicle design and less on racing. He built a 533 hp turbocharged hybrid engine for American Honda's CR-Z, which was showcased at SEMA 2010, Las Vegas, NV. The "one of its kind" build received rave reviews from publications such as Autoblog and Topspeed  Ezerioha piloted his Honda Insight to one event win.

In conclusion, Bisi Ezerioah contributed to our lives, his inventions contributed our lives because he made transportaion easier for us to use and go. Every of his inventions started to improve once they are improved.

He set the world record of the first naturally aspirated fwd to run 150 mph in a quarter mile Broke the world record for quickest naturally aspirated fwd with a 9.36 quarter mile elapsed time Five event wins

2008 Six event wins

2007 IDRA Pro stock champion Four event wins

2006 World’s 1st confirmed 9 second n/a pass on gasoline (9.97 at 135 mph) First non-vtec honda all motor to run 9s in the quarter mile Eight event wins IDRC Pro Stock Champion

2005 One event win

2004 Three event wins

2003 IDRC all motor world champion Voted “World’s favorite pro stock racer” www.battleoftheimports.com Six event wins

2002 First non-vtec honda all motor to run 10s in the quarter mile(10.93@124.7 mph)

2001 One event win

2000 One event win

1999 First non-vtec honda all motor to run 11s in the quarter mile. World's fastest and quickest n/a 1.5L

1998 World’s Fastest Naturally Aspirated Street SOHC (12.64) One event win

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KOLA ALUKO Nigerian Oil Magnate and Billionaire extraordinaire is one of a handful of black racing drivers driving change in the perceptions of a traditionally white and Asian sport.

 Kola Aluko (born 20 October 1969, in Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian energy business magnate with further interests in African infrastructure development and aviation. Based in Nigeria, Aluko is the Co-Chief Officer and an Executive Director of Atlantic Energy, an indigenous, private upstream oil and gas company, focused on independent exploration and production ('E&P") participation in Nigeria.
Kola Aluko was ranked by Forbes Africa as one of the 40th Richest Africans, as well as included in the Top Ten list of Successful African Entrepreneurs to Follow on
The New African Magazine (November 2013 issue) included Aluko in their 100 Most Influential Africans listing and issue.

Born Kolawole Aluko (Lagos, Nigeria, 20 October 1969), one of nine siblings. Aluko's mother is a pharmacist, his father, Chief Akanni Aluko (Chairman Island Club and High Chief in Alesha, Osun State, Nigeria) a geologist. Chief Akanni Aluko is the only child of Mrs Adedoja Aluko from Ogbomosho, Oyo State, Nigeria. Kola Aluko attended Igbogbi College in Lagos. Aluko says, he was "from an early age very ambitious and I always knew I wanted to work for myself". “Highly competitive and keen on sports”, Aluko's entrepreneurial mind set saw him work in different industries, from pharmaceuticals to cars, before settling for the oil industry twenty years ago.  
 
Kola Aluko co-founded Besse Oil, a pioneering oil trading company in Nigeria in 1995. Besse Oil, one of the first to obtain a credit line with major international banks, traded crude oil and fuel oil, as well as being a major importer of gasoline.
Six years later, in 2001, Aluko founded Fossil Resources, an indigenous downstream oil and gas company, where he held the role of CEO.
In 2004, Kola Aluko formed Exoro Energy International, becomes CEO and moves into Exploration and Production. Exoro Energy partnered with a division of Weatherford, to showcase its exploration and production technology.
In 2007, the division of Weatherford was bought out and merged with Exoro Energy to form an independent company, Seven Energy. Aluko was a Director of Seven Energy from 2007 until his departure in 2011.
Seven Energy, an indigenous Nigerian oil and gas exploration, development, production and distribution company, is "run by the trio of Kola Aluko, Phillip Ihenacho and Jide Omokore."
Kola Aluko, together with a team of Nigerian and international E&P executives, co-founds Atlantic Energy in 2011, a private upstream oil and gas company, with an increased focus on under-developed producing fields in Nigeria. In partnership with the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) Atlantic Energy focuses mainly on Niger Delta assets, contracted and executed under Strategic Alliance Agreements (SAAs) with the NPDC.
In 2010, Aluko diversified into the aviation industry, becoming a member of the Vistajet advisory board, assisting with the West-African expansion of the Swiss-based luxury aviation company.

 

 Kola Aluko is a co-founder of Made in Africa (MiAF), a foundation 'set up to support and fund master plans and feasibility studies for transformational and large scale developments and infrastructure projects across the African continent'. MiAF's other co-founder is the Ghanaian fashion designer Oswald Boateng.
On 26 September 2013, MiAF launched the Africa50 fund at New York's NASDAQ, Africa's largest infrastructure investment vehicle to date. MiAF, in alliance with the African Development Bank (ADB), aims to raise US$500 million for Africa50 by early 2014. The two institutions are supported by the investment expertise of Capri Global Capital - a US-based investment advisory founded by African-American fund manager Quintin E. Primo III.
Aluko, who is based in Nigeria and Switzerland, is a passionate motor sports enthusiast, who races and competes in conjunction with Swiss-based Ferrari team Kessel Racing. In December 2012, Aluko and his Kessel team-mates Thomas Kemenater and Maurizio Mediani came third in the final round of the Endurance Champions Cup held at Rome's Vallelunga circuit in Italy.
In interviews Aluko often cites the racing car driver Ayrton Senna as a main inspiration, drawing parallels between racing, business and life in general. When asked on his advise for young entrepreneurs, Aluko said, “The key is focus, focus and again focus. Identify the things you are good at, your strengths, and get to work on your weaknesses. The racing car driver Ayrton Senna, a man who inspired me greatly, is a good example. Senna was an exceptional driver, however, initially he was terrible in wet conditions, compared to racing in the dry. But he identified his weakness, and so every time it rained, he jumped into his car, and practiced, practiced, practiced, until he arguably became the best, wet weather driver in history."                                                          

Aluko is one of a handful of black racing drivers driving change in the perceptions of a traditionally white and Asian sport. He is on the board of the Nigeria FIA and recently hosted FIA President Jean Todt as he made a two day visit to Nigeria to investigate the possibility of bringing motor racing to the country.

Aluko owns Kessel Racing’s Ferrari 458 GT2 and has previously competed in the Winter Series GTOpen in Montmelo Catalonia, Spain “It is a way to take my mind off everything else,” he considers.

He currently races out of his base in Lugano Switzerland, where Kessel Racing is also located. There he stores his collection of race cars and classic cars. They include classic cars from the 1960s like a California Spider and a 250 Luso, a Ferrari Dino and others like the Aston Martin DB5, thoroughbred Ferraris like the 2GO, the F40, the F50 and the Enzo.

“Obviously I can’t drive all the cars but the guys who look after them are professionals,” he says. “My cars are my passion and an investment, mostly they go up in value but I do drive them.

“The Maserati MC12 racing car was one of only nine built and has won championships in the past. I have the F1 car from 2008 driven by Kimi Raikonnen and tested by Michael Schumacher, a Goldwing SL from the 60s. They are better investments than a lot of other things.”

“If you look inwards and try to focus on the best you can do; if you are the sort of person who always challenges himself, then you are so far ahead of the others and the game. You can only do as best as you can. That is something I have got from racing.” His name is a door opener around the world. Imagine a ‘lifestyle institution’ like ‘Harrods’ speaking ones name with a smile on their lips, ever ready to acknowledge he shops at their store. We hear he is one of the ‘biggest spenders’ in Harrods. Imagine the top manager of a Ferrari franchise asking in curiosity how special is the name ‘Kola’ , because one of their special friends/customer is Kola Aluko. Another ‘Kola’ not him, had gone to buy a Ferrari, eliciting the curiosity. For one to better appreciate how legendary the guy’s car collection is, we heard a special coffee table book was published to celebrate those cars, just like it was done for Ralph Lauren’s cars collection.

Aluko’s love of cars transcends the trope of obsession or ordinary fleeting fascination. His vehicles garages in his palatial mansions across the world stocks the best of state of the art automobiles. He is also an avid Formula 1 enthusiast; some say he has over 20 plus racing cars for his own F1 Team. Besides cars, the Nigerian energy and aviation tycoon betrays a love for expensive timepieces. Sources close to him claim that his wrist watch collection is to die for; he has a particular one that cost him a whooping $1 million.

The highflying entrepreneur believes that the home depicts the quality of soul possessed by a man hence his acquisition of choice apartments and mansions in the most highbrow areas across the world. He owns expensive and tastefully furnished homes in the most exotic locations including Monaco, Spain, Los Angeles, New York in United States of America, London, United Kingdom to mention a few. His home in New York, USA is said to be located at one of the most luxurious and most expensive flats in the world with a super spectacular view. The one in at LA mansions in Beverly Hills, is said to be on a hill all by itself and it is padded by the best of designer home stuff one can imagine. The apartment cost him about $40 Million dollars.

He once flew in a renowned diamond jeweler from New York, USA and commissioned him to build a $2.5 million diamond collar for his second wife, Teni Edu. He had seen the same necklace on one of the Trumps and had asked for it, but since they didn’t have it for retail sale it had to be built for madam. So jeweler was flown in on Kola’s jet, madam’s neck was measured and then collar was later delivered made to measure.

At Kola’s birthday at one of his private homes in Los Angeles, California last year, the party was hosted by 2 of the best pop icons in the US, in the persons of Jay Z & P-Diddy. Both stars were the ones that sent out the invitations for the party.

Whenever Kola visits his favourite joint, 1 Oak, it’s like the late Michael Jackson has come to bless the joint with his distinguished presence. We hear that the owner waits to come to take him in, and remains at his beck and call all through, while the spotlight is focused on him and his guests till he leaves. He is probably one of their most valued customer. Like someone said and we quote ”he is the most interesting black character he has come across in a long while”. Kola supposedly single handedly sponsored Kanye West’s Paris Fashion sometime ago.

One other very interesting thing about Mr. Aluko is that he loves the Scandinavians a lot. Especially the Swedish.

Kola recently joined the rarefied league of owners of the most expensive yachts in the world. Atop this pile is a boat known as History Supreme or Baia Supreme, said to be around $4.5 to 4.8billion Dollars and owned by Malaysian businessman, Robert Kuok, there’s Roman Abramovich’s $1.5billion Eclipse and many more, but Kola Aluko’s Hessen built Galactica Star valued at $100million is most probably the most expensive boat owned by a black man. The humongous boat even very recently won at the Monaco Boat Show 2013.

The Galactica Star super yacht is 65 meter long of super luxury. The yacht in September of this year won 3 prestigious awards at the Monaco Yacht Show- Best Yacht design, La Belle Classic Crest & finally a Baccarat Crystal Sail Trophy presented by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, for winning the Prix du Design which is giving for the Most Innovative, Elegant & Distinguished design at the Monaco Yacht Show. Kola frolics about town with controversial former American runway queen, Naomi Campbell. Since Campbell broke up with her billionaire boyfriend, she hasn’t been seen in suggestive poses with any man until her recent dalliances with Kola Aluko.

Source: News of the people

Nigeria's very own US based Kingsley Chidozie Anajemba breaking grounds in the business world,and empowering Nigerians for a better future globally

   

 

 Who is who Nigeria cannot help but to showcase this young Nigerian, who by his personal achievement is indeed a true ambassador for Nigeria and Africa indeed, with this he has gone a long way in empowering Nigerians and indeed Africans globally.

Kingsley Chidozie Anajemba a foremost businessman with a geology and Mining background who has interest in trading consumer commodities globally, upstream and downstream oil sectors of the oil and gas industry.

He attended University of Jos Nigeria and graduated with a Bachelors degree of Natural Sciences with major in Geology and Mining.

Kingsley brings to bear an impressive and clear sightedness of 20 years of consumer commodities trade experience, He started his trade career with the family's business Rockmond Group, a consumer commodities company owned by his parents Chief and Lolo Raymond and Cecelia Anajemba,he further worked as an aid in year 2001/2002 for a two term Governor in Imo State Nigeria after graduating from University and acquired his political tutelage at an early stage in life.

Kingsley relocated to the United States of America 2002 as a business consultant working for National City Bank Akron Ohio and Veemost-Technologies, Akron Ohio .

He later then moved to Texas where he continued his consumer commodity trading with DTQ corporation, Bigfoot tax services and logistics, he also owned a couple of import and export businesses  in Europe, North America, Middle East, Asia, and Africa.

Kingsley moved into the Financial sector, Oil and Gas industry 2010 after consulting and for Omega Maritime on Salt pond basin oil block (10) in Ghana for the procurement of two on-shore rigs. Between 2010 and present  he spent most of his time studying the skills of  project finance, commodities trade, energy, oil and gas trade under the platform of NationWide Finance and equipments, OMG Global Resources and Bava Group LLC.

Kingsley is still developing new business opportunities with foreign companies globally and he currently serves on the board of a number of companies globally.

He brings a wealth of experience from these different industries and is still in a quest to conquer the trading world.