Nigeria's biggest listed companies have been holding more cash than ever over the past five years, as high interest rates, inflation, foreign exchange volatility, and economic uncertainty push businesses to prioritise liquidity over expansion....

In 2026, one message keeps coming from the IMF to Nigeria: you need to raise taxes and broaden the tax base. On the surface, that sounds simple. ...

Nigeria's banks have more capital than at any point in their history. Yet businesses are receiving less credit. ...

A few years ago, the idea would have sounded absurd. A software engineer in Lagos opens his laptop one morning and discovers that one of the world's most powerful artificial intelligence systems is no longer available to him....

For years, Africa's fintech boom has been defined by startups such as Flutterwave, Moniepoint and Wave, which built large payments businesses from scratch before attracting billion-dollar valuations...

In the sweltering heat of Hormuz, a tanker captain recalls the tense weeks when every voyage felt like a gamble. Insurance premiums had tripled, oil prices surged past $100 per barrel, and global inflation ticked upward as shipping lanes narrowed under th...

The numbers that once defined Africa's technology story were optimistic. Between 2019 and 2022, venture capital into African startups surged past the $3 billion mark for the first time in recorded history....

Nigeria enters 2026 standing at a crossroads. Over the past two years, the country has embarked on some of the most significant and audacious economic reforms seen in decades. ...