There’s a huge contrast between the way, say American parents raise their children when it comes to money and the way Nigerian parents do. I’ve started to wonder if this feeds into the way we relate to finances as adults. For instance, I read John D. Rockefeller’s biography, Titan. He describes his dad giving him weekly allowance […]
Author: eldivine
2019: Let The Story Begin
Happy New Year everyone! It’s a late new year post but I’ve been in my village with really bad internet for the past almost two weeks (for those of you not aware, I’m currently in Nigeria). I hope you all enjoyed the festive period and are coming into 2019 with a lot of energy and […]
How The Nigerian Government Kills Innovation
This post doesn’t offer much in the way of solutions. I’m merely trying to articulate a position, and you can fill in your own details with your own anecdotes. The story is told of a time when President Einsenhower of the United States was just President of a university. His school was growing rapidly and […]
Introducing Cashestate, Dollar Denominated Investments for Nigerians
I started thinking about how to make it possible for Nigerians to invest in US Dollar opportunities as far back as 2014. Around this time four years ago, in this post, I talked about the difficulties Nigeria’s economy was going to face and how Nigerians should find ways to convert their money and invest in […]
General Motors Earnings Update – AKA Mary Barra Is An Excellent CEO
I’ve been singing Mary Barra’s praises for a long time now, here and on twitter. As CEO of General Motors, she has been doing such an excellent job and it’s funny that people have not been wising up to this for a long time. Maybe because she’s a woman and not as brash and loud […]
Why Government Subsidized Sanitary Pads Is A Bad Idea
I was originally going to use the word “Stupid” in the header of this post, but I want to disagree with someone, not offend him so I won’t. You can argue that I still have, but that’s indirect, it’s not in the caption, and none of us have a monopoly on stupid ideas. I’ve had […]
Mutilated Currency Division or Why US Dollars Tend to Always Be Cleaner and Fresher than Naira
Every year, twenty three thousand cases get sent into the Mutilated Currency Division (MCD) of the US Treasury. The problem is usually very simple, someone has some physical cash that is damaged in some way. It could be either fire, water, chemicals, insects, animals, petrification from burying or whatever else. As long as the money […]
