Nigeria’s Cosmos Maduka Covers Forbes Magazine; From $1 to A $500 million Empire

He showered in the streets and worked for 7 Years with no pay! Coscharis CEO, Cosmas Maduka turned $1 to a $500 million automobile empire. Nigerian Automobile giant, Coscharis Motors CEO, Cosmas Maduka’s success story is quite an inspiring one as he graces the cover of the November 2015 issue of Forbes Africa.

We get to take a look into his world and see how he started Coscharis from scratch and built it into a billion naira business conglomerate, as the latest edition of the magazine he is dubbed ‘The $500-Million Survivor’.

His feature outlines his success story – Seven years without pay, showering in the street, scrapping with his brother, fired by his uncle, fired at by his wife’s uncle and more.

Cosmas Maduka shares how he survived war, tragedy and family fights to turn $1 into $500 million.

It has been a rocky road for Cosmas Maduka, who started out fixing cars and now makes millions selling them.

Pick up a copy of the November 2015 of Forbes Africa and read his story.