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Fidson founder’s paper loss highlights rights issue digestion
Rights issues have a way of humbling even the most celebrated founders. Fidelis Ayebae's Fidson Healthcare closed its N21 billion rights issue 117 percent oversubscribed in early 2026, pulling in N24.65 billion in valid applications against N21 billion on...
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Nigeria's capital conundrum: Escaping poverty with Asia development lessons
Nigeria has been severally described as a giant, but its government has strangely modest ambitions as the country is mired in a cycle of underdevelopment that defies its potential....
Editor | Mar 04, 2026
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Tinubu’s great pipeline gamble means more cash for states in an opaque federalism
Over the years, oil has been both the lifeblood and hex in the complex cosmos of Nigerian public finance...
Editor | Feb 25, 2026
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Ella Lakes' Nigerian agribusiness bet is still aflame despite funding glitch
The Nigerian agribusiness field is inherently fertile but obviously fickle. Here, Ellah Lakes Plc is demonstrating that not even a remarkable funding glitch can uproot its ambitions as the NGX-listed firm sticks to its bet that the strategic appeal of its...
Editor | Feb 23, 2026
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IFC’s Cairo catalyst could be a naira-powered green ladder to Nigeria’s economic futur
When the Central Bank of Egypt welcomed its Nigerian counterpart to a sustainable finance conference co-hosted with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group’s private sector arm, in Cairo this week, t...
Editor | Feb 18, 2026
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MTN Nigeria’s price tag could be the telecom titan’s poise to elevate portfolios
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc (MTNN) on the Nigerian Exchange Group reads like a stock with nuanced story-book potential excitements moderated by caution. Africa's largest mobile operator by subscribers, MTNN’s shares traded at around N708 in mid-Februar...
Editor | Feb 16, 2026
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JPMorgan’s frontier gamble is Nigeria’s big step onto the global bond stage
JPMorgan Chase is finalising arrangements to introduce a new benchmark that will track local-currency government bonds in frontier markets, including Nigeria Egypt, Vietnam, Kenya, Pakistan and about 20 other countries....
Editor | Feb 12, 2026
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Nigerian palm oil breakout: Presco and Okomu surge on boom
Listed Nigerian plantation giants, Presco and Okomu, have been propelled by favourable global winds and local expansion to ride a wave of earnings surge. The two leading palm oil producers defied volatile commodity markets ...
Editor | Feb 11, 2026
Briefings on the Margin
The yield chase
The Nigerian government is passing the hat around, and investors are only too happy to fill it — provided the price is right. At a primary auction on Wednesday, 21 January, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) saw demand for Treasury Bills hit ₦3.44 trillion...
Editor | Feb 11, 2026
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