Download Nigerian Stock Exchange Historical Stock Price Dataset

Some months ago I was trying to do some data analysis on historical equity data with Geek Impressario, Femi Aluko, but we practically ran into brick walls: no data. There wasn’t any easy place to get daily prices in one single place.

I turned to a friend who had one but then due to some vague business secrecy, I was told to hug an electric pole (told in a nice way that I actually looked forward to that shocking experience).

So like what geeks are known for, our impresario sat down and cooked some codes, helped with a generous dose of caffeine and bush meat and presto, a scrapper was born to scour the web for fragments and we built a database of the stock prices from January 1, 2000 till date.

But we won’t be asking you to hug the next shocking thing you can lay your hands on, we have decided to give out part of the data to anyone who needs to download and use for any type of analysis or financial weapon of mass destruction that can be cooked up.

The data is available for download in CSV from Google Docs. The data we have made available ends at December 31, 2010.

By the way, download and use this data at your own peril. We make absolutely no claim that this is not more than a collection of numerical junks.

Power supply so good; and then so bad

I don’t know if it’s just my end alone but of recent the electricity supply from PHCN has been pretty good. In fact too good to be true. But who can satisfy Nigerians? Trust that I still need to gripe about it. Why? Well, it is a bit complicated. I use a prepaid meter and the non-stop electricity supply is zapping my “credit” so fast you could think that the utility meter is a stop watch. To get me even more annoyed, government announced that they are upgrading the prices to N25/KwH soon. Why do we always benchmark cost to other countries but we never do same for minimum wage or roads or rails or [*insert your gripe here*].

The following table shows the price of electricity per Kilowatt Hour across different countries. This should serve as a quick reference to what other guys pay in these countries.

Country$/KwHN/KwH
Kingdom of Tonga0.457073.12
Denmark0.428968.62
Italy0.372359.57
Netherlands0.347055.52
Germany0.306649.06
Philippines0.288046.08
Sweden0.273443.74
Ireland0.238938.22
Spain0.195031.20
France0.192530.80
UK0.185929.74
Croatia0.175528.08
Singapore0.173427.74
Portugal0.163926.22
Nigeria (Proposed)0.156325.00
Hong Kong0.123019.68
Iceland0.116118.58
Belgium0.114318.29
Perú0.104416.70
South Africa0.101516.24
USA0.092814.85
Malaysia0.074211.87
Australia0.071111.38
Finland0.069511.12
Nigeria (Currently)0.062510.00
Canada0.0618  9.89