{"id":197743,"date":"2014-06-18T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/nigerians-ghanaians-spend-more-on-clothes-cars-than-health-care-report\/"},"modified":"2014-06-18T09:00:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T09:00:54","slug":"nigerians-ghanaians-spend-more-on-clothes-cars-than-health-care-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/06\/18\/nigerians-ghanaians-spend-more-on-clothes-cars-than-health-care-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians, Ghanaians Spend More On Clothes &#038; Cars Than Health Care \u2013Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ba60669729491_745030.jpg\" border=\"1\" style=\"border:1px solid #999; padding:1px; margin-top:2px;\" \/><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\">Nigerians clearly love the luxe things of life.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal, yesterday Tuesday, released a review profiling what Africans especially in Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana spend their disposable income on.<\/p>\n<p>And what\u2019s the first thing they buy? Find out below.<\/p>\n<p>Although the demands vary in these countries, one thing is for sure, Nigerians, Ghanaians and Kenyans go for quality brands.<\/p>\n<p>A chief investment officer at Voltan Capital Management, New York, Alison Graham says \u201cPeople think if you sell something in Africa it has to be cheap. A lot of it kind of ends up being junk, and there\u2019s no such thing as a refund policy in Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the table listed above, it can been seen that in all three countries clothing, footwear and accessories, is priority for citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya leads the pack with 56%, Ghana follows with 50%, and Nigeria comes in third with 43%.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to health care, Nigeria has 0% while Kenya has a whopping 41% and Ghana -12%.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from fashion, luxury cars, mobile electronics, and beauty top the list.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerians clearly love the luxe things of life.The Wall Street Journal, yesterday Tuesday, released a review profiling what Africans especially in Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana spend their disposable income on.And what\u2019s the first thing they buy? &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}