Guys, I’d like to introduce you to my friend Lily Okoronkwo at her new African fashion/culture/art blog, theglowingcolours.com I met Lily a few years ago. We liked a lot of the same things, and we struck up an easy going friendship. At the time, she lived in Venice, working as an art broker and part […]
Month: April 2015
Car Financing in Nigeria: Coscharis and Co.
According to some report I received today, Access Bank and Stanbic IBTC signed a Memorandum with Coscharis Motors to allow customers in Nigeria pay a 10% down payment and spread the rest of their payments for a car over 48 months. The rate is about 16.5 percent which is bonkers to my now fairly Americanized […]
Apple Watch goes Platinum: A Million Sold.
When the Apple Watch was announced earlier, there was such a wave of analysts and opinion peddlers who were convinced it was going to be a dud. In the immortal words of Jimi K. Agbaje, I am not (and was never) one of them. This was me, about a month ago: There's such an overwhelming […]
Buy Stocks without Paying Broker Fees using DRIPs.
There’s an easy way to invest in companies, especially the more established ones without having to pay commissions to your broker, or using a brokerage account. It’s called Direct Purchase and Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIP) The premise is simple: you can reach out to a company to buy stocks directly instead of doing it through […]
Why Consumer Goods Companies Are Great Investments
One of the easily observed truths of American capitalism and economy, is that the consumer is King. And if the consumer is King, then most of the most successful companies for investors are all in the Consumer Goods industry. An analysis of the top returning stocks in the S&P 500 in the last 25 years, […]
Genes Are A Crazy Thing.
the OG programming language. I was hanging out with a friend some days ago, and she showed me a huge, old family album. As I was going through the pictures, she would explain who was who, and their relationship to her. We got to one picture. “Oh, that’s my maternal great-great-grandfather.” I paused. My […]
Buhari’s Road Ahead
“difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week”: Jay-z Jonathan will hand over the Presidency to General Buhari come May 29, 2015. That’s something to be glad about. Many said it was impossible. Many licked their chops, ready to see these elections tear us apart. They did not. We proved them wrong. We punished non-performance, and […]
