I was out recently with some friends in a night club in down town Ikeja. It was a boys hangout and as we typically do on such occasions, ended up drinking a lot of vodka, brandy, soft drinks, water and off-course beer. When it was time to pay up our bill was a nicely sum of about N100k. Nicely because we were over 10 guys with half of us surely within “the above N5m per year” earning bracket. The beer bill came to about N39,000, vodka and Hennessy N45,000 and the rest on water and soft & energy drinks etc. Like i said this was a usual norm and nothing special, thats until I read a reuters article that said “an average african had to work three hours on average to afford a beer, compared to 12minutes for a European”!!!! Three hours!!!! Wow.

So, I decided to put that to put it to test, to find out if it is really true. To do that within my resources means I will have to stick to Nigeria and off-course make some assumptions. Here they are?

Average Cost of Beer (Retail Price) – N200

Hours Worked Per day – 8.30-5.30 (9hrs)

Working days a month – 20days

Minimum Wage – N18,000 a month (without deducting tax, pensions etc)

The Result? Go to...... http://nairametrics.com/see-how-many-hours-you-need-to-work-to-afford-a-bottle-of-beer/

Use coke pls! I don't do beer!!

Abeg help me calculate pure water