On Monday, September 21, Nigeria officially re-enters FTSE Russell’s Frontier Market Index after three years on the sidelines. While this sounds like high-finance jargon, it carries a very practical r...
Whenever a major IPO enters the market, investors face the exact same question: are we paying for a genuinely sound business, or simply funding market hype? That dilemma feels particularly relevant to...
Investment scammers are becoming more sophisticated. They now use artificial intelligence, fake videos, cloned voices, and coordinated social media campaigns to make fraudulent schemes look legitimate...
Nigeria’s small businesses employ most of the country’s workforce and contribute significantly to economic activity. Yet access to bank loans has become increasingly difficult. Over the pa...
When most people think about investing, bonds are not top of mind. They think about stocks – prices rising and falling, dividend announcements, earnings reports, and the possibility of finding t...
Most investors assume a stock’s price changes because someone buys or sells it, that’s not entirely the case. On the Nigerian Exchange (NGX), a trade must meet a certain minimum volume req...
One of the biggest misconceptions about investing is that success depends on finding the next winning stock. In reality, many investors build wealth without ever picking a single stock themselves....
Nigerian investors love a bargain. We are drawn to low-priced stocks the same way shoppers are drawn to a clearance sale. A share trading at ₦10 feels more affordable than one trading at ₦700, even wh...
I will be upfront about my bias from the start. My instinct, when I hear prediction markets, is skepticism. Not the reflexive kind where I dismiss them immediately, but the nagging feeling that someth...
Have you ever tried sending money only for the app to fail? That frustration comes from disconnected bank networks. All of that may change soon. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is expanding its Open...