What the CBN's withdrawal of 46 microfinance bank licences says about financial inclusion, depositor trust and the next phase of Nigerian financial-sector reform...

Mass weddings are easy to love. They produce photographs, prayers, applause and the comforting impression that government has touched the poor....

Every nation has one decision that quietly determines whether its economy rises or merely survives. For some, it was the decision to industrialise. For others, it was to educate their people, open their markets or build strong institutions....

In the Nigerian investment space, many retail investors still fall into a common trap: celebrating a company's absolute dividend while ignoring the more important metric — the dividend yield....

The growing use of China’s yuan across African economies is being framed by some as a challenge to the dominance of the US dollar....

The most dangerous aspect of a technological revolution is rarely the technology itself. It is the illusion that access to that technology will remain permanent....

There is a temptation, especially in a market hungry for big stories, to read the Securities and Exchange Commission’s intervention on the Dangote Refinery share-sale chatter as an attempt to frustrate one of Africa’s most ambitious industrial assets....

A global energy-market shock has turned from shortage panic to surplus fear. For Nigeria and other oil-linked economies, the right response is not celebration but preparation....