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Geregu drains cash reserves for N22.5bn dividend amid squeezed profit
Power generation giant Geregu Power Plc pushed its balance sheet to the absolute limit in its 2025 financial year, choosing to aggressively drain its cash reserves to maintain a massive N22.5 billion dividend payout to shareholders despite a squeeze on it
Iheanyi Nwachukwu | Jun 30, 2026
Economy
Nigeria seeks advisers for first Eurobond sale since November
Nigeria is officially laying the groundwork to return to the international debt market. The Debt Management Office (DMO) has requested expressions of interest from financial and legal firms to act as transaction advisers for an upcoming Eurobond sale.
Kenneth Athekame & Ayomide Odunlami | Jun 30, 2026
Tax
Corporate Nigeria races to beat June 30 e-invoicing deadline as sanctions loom
Corporate Nigeria is on a 24-hour countdown as the National Revenue Service (NRS) prepares to enforce its mandatory electronic invoicing regimen, leaving thousands of large companies racing to meet Tuesday’s June 30 deadline or risk financial penalties fr
Ayomide Odunlami | Jun 29, 2026
Markets
Northern Billionaires split biggest chunk of Jaiz Bank’s N4.91bn dividend
Nigeria’s premier non-interest financial institution, Jaiz Bank Plc recently got shareholders approval for a massive 57 percent increase in its dividend payout to 11 kobo per share following a stellar financial year 2025.
Iheanyi Nwachukwu | Jun 27, 2026
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Explainer: How your top 5 assets fit into Nigeria’s new tax brackets
Returns from investment assets in Nigeria are subject to varying tax treatments, depending on the nature of the instrument and the type of income generated....
Chioma Nwangwu | Feb 12, 2026
Nigeria to tax 80% informal workforce using presumptive taxes
A larger percentage of the Nigerian workforce is currently operating without a single financial record. To reach them, authorities are deploying a controversial tool: the Presumptive Tax....
Ayomide Odunlami | Feb 05, 2026
Five tax rules shaping 2026 business filings
Filing season for 2026 will come with more scrutiny and expectations from tax authorities.
Nigeria’s tax law delivers early pay gains for workers
Nigeria’s new tax law is already translating into higher take-home pay for several formal sector workers, with January salaries reflecting reduced Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) deductions, according to early payroll data and human resource managers....
Ayomide Odunlami | Jan 29, 2026
Tax reforms in 2026: More govt revenue or more pain for citizens?
As Nigeria prepares for the first year of implementation of its tax reforms, questions are emerging over whether the new framework will increase public revenue without adding pressure on households and businesses amid a weak economic environment....
Chioma Nwangwu | Dec 29, 2025
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Security
Nigeria’s security spending trap leaves violence undefeated 
For years, Nigeria’s response to insecurity has followed a familiar pattern: increase spending, deploy more forces, launch operations and hope the situation improves. But the violence keeps changing shape....
Obidike Okafor | Jun 30, 2026
Economy
Are immigrants to blame for SA’s economic woes?
With unemployment stubbornly above 30 percent and crime rates among the highest in Africa, South Africa’s simmering frustrations have boiled over into anti immigrant protests. ...
Muhammed Akanji | Jun 30, 2026
Economy
Nigeria’s development plans have outrun its finances  
The Nigerian government can no longer afford to build Nigeria by itself. Its future now depends on convincing private capital to do what the government no longer can....
Lolade Akinmurele | Jun 30, 2026
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South Africa's xenophobia tax and the fiscal price tag of hatred
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Building the invisible foundations of national development
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Jun 22, 2026
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Nigeria’s credit invisibility problem
BusinessDay | Jun 22, 2026
WHO IS THINKING FOR NIGERIA
Rebuilding the Nigerian church for national renewal
Religion remains one of the most consequential forces in Nigerian private and public life. Religion shapes identities, influences political behaviour, informs social values, and often serves as a framework through which millions of citizens understand nat...
Dr. Richard Ikiebe | Jul 01, 2026
Africa+1 Diplomacy needs a continental strategy
The world's major powers have spent the last three decades institutionalising a peculiar form of diplomacy around Africa. China hosts the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation....
Faith Omoboye | Jun 30, 2026
Is Nigeria heading towards a civilisational and nation-state collapse?
History teaches that every political form eventually transforms. Nation-states are not guaranteed to exist forever. This is a fact both archaeologists and historians acknowledge. While they disagree on the number of states or civilisations that have colla
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INSIGHTS
Economy
Why welfare policy must move from ceremonies to capability
Oluyemi Adeosun | Jul 01, 2026
Economy
Nigeria's greatest economic policy failure may be electricity – The one problem holding back every other sector of the economy
Emmanuel C. Macaulay | Jun 30, 2026
Markets
Dividend paid vs dividend yield: The crucial difference
Kalu A. Aja | Jun 30, 2026
Economy
Africa’s yuan shift is a trade story, not a dollar revolt
Obidike Okafor | Jun 30, 2026
OPINION
The Name She Built: Identity is not a marital asset
Udo Maryanne Okonjo
The gap between what Nigerian business owners believe about AI and what they have actually done with it
Olufemi Kazeem Oluoje
June 12: The ritualisation of a sham democracy in Nigeria
Olu Fasan
Justice Lifu on rampage? Insecurity and the search for spirit of ECOMOG
Zebulon Agomuo
CAREERS & MOBILITY
Visa ban halts Nigerian students' American dream
Managing the generational gap at work using artificial intelligence (AI) 
Canada PR: Misrepresenting marital status for PR advantage is a grave breach
How Nigerian immigrants can secure a job in Canada in 3 months
Bridging the gap between education and employment in Nigeria
Potential may not always be packaged and polished
INTERVIEWS

How we survived the naira fall and sustained growth in the past decade — Tinubu

Primero Transport Services Limited is one of the operators of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Lagos State, with about 500 buses operating within the Ikorodu to TBS corridor.... Osa Victor and Wasiu Alli

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Bullet acquisition sets Champion Breweries on fast track to export-led growth
Lolade Akinmurele
Localised solutions: How Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu’s ColdHubs turns food waste into rural wealth
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How NIMC is transforming governance through digital identity – Coker-Odusote, DG/CEO NIMC
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‘Africa’s wealth must work for Africa’- Hott
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