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Briefings on the Margin
All that glitters is state property
Accra has decided that large-scale mining companies must hand over 30 per cent of their gold production from July. The State-owned Gold Board will pay for these doré gold bars in local cedis, kindly offering a tiny discount of less than one per cent again...
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NSIA: Sovereign resilience in Nigeria’s storm
The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) has delivered another year of solid growth. For the 12 months to December 2025 the sovereign wealth fund reported core operating income of N525.3 billion, a growth of 5.5 per cent from ₦498 billion of 2024...
Editor | Apr 08, 2026
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Flutterwave’s Llcence: A watershed moment for Nigeria’s banking
Flutterwave, Africa’s most valuable fintech unicorn, announced on April 2, 2026, that it had secured a banking licence from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Banking analysts say that the licence technically allows Flutterwave to establish national micro...
Editor | Apr 08, 2026
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Nigeria’s oil windfall rerun: Grab it or waste it again
A geopolitical shock handed Nigeria a fiscal bonanza two and half decades ago. With Saddam Hussein’s tanks rolling into Kuwait, Nigeria amassed an approximate $12.4 billion from the ensuing Gulf war oil jump....
Editor | Mar 25, 2026
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UK Steel for Nigerian ports upgrade exposes Ajaokuta’s lost decades
The £746 million ($997 million) funding pact sealed on March 19 during President Bola Tinubu’s London visit on 19 March 2026 between UK Export Finance (UKEF) and the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is epochal for West African maritime infrastructure. It se...
Editor | Mar 25, 2026
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Zenith’s London ambition: Capital, credibility, and a global reach
As Nigeria’s Zenith Bank plans a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange by 2027, the market has read ecdysis into the move, postulating that the tier-1 bank is shedding its skin of domestic champion to emerge a bona fide pan-African financial force....
Editor | Mar 25, 2026
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Nigeria’s fresh fuel play: Fostering competition through import licencing  
Nigeria’s downstream petroleum market is undergoing a quiet but consequential redesign, with the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority’s (NMDPRA) decision to license and periodically restrict fuel imports effectively becoming th...
Editor | Mar 18, 2026
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From waste to resource: Nigeria’s rPET plant brews a circular economy
As the race to align industrial growth with sustainability intensifies, a new partnership in Nigeria provides a peek into the probable shape and form of future circular capitalism in emerging markets....
Editor | Mar 18, 2026
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From capital buffering to reinvention: The imperative for Nigerian banks
The latest round of Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) recapitalisation drive was initiated in 2024. It is all but complete now, with more than 80 per cent of the banks meeting the new thresholds of N500 billion for international licences, ...
Editor | Mar 18, 2026
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