Sometime last year, a picture of a document circulated on social media detailing the pre-conditions a landlord in Port-Harcourt gave potential tenants who intend to rent his apartment. Bizarre as it looked, that picture represents the lived experiences of a lot of Nigerians who have had to put up in rented apartments. At the workstation the other day, this came up in our conversations and some of my...
Ever since the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin, the world’s first cryptocurrency in 2009, the world of blockchain technology has experienced a phenomenal rise in relevance within the world’s financial markets. With more companies and organizations taking a detour off traditional transactional routes, one may begin to imagine what it means for real estate markets all over the world. This...
The menu at Metroville has been reviewed. There are more seafood options now and the prices of everything else have gone up by a few extra digits. This development precipitates our conversations tonight. Eddie has a story about an experience with a friend in an African restaurant in Dubai many years ago. (Expensive food prices will always be hilarious to me, lol.) He says one time he was in Dubai with a...
In case you have been wondering where I have vanished along with all my office gist to, I have just been up and about my national duties as a patriotic 20-something-year-old Nigerian is required to do. The khaki life has not been easy and frankly I would really not mind doing without the “...under the sun or in the rain” part of our NYSC anthem. Anyway, I’m back to the office again and the gang at...
We are at Metroville tonight. Mallam Hassan and Mr. Cele are here earliest. We typically wait for Mallam Hassan to join us much later, and even today he didn't particularly come earlier than his usual time. Yet his arrival preceded Eddie and Tokunbo’s. (Because I like free food, I almost always arrive first.) While we are waiting for the quorum to form we try to catch up on the latest happenings in the...