A US$600 million cheque from the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) is by any measure a vote of confidence. That it...
The story is getting more complicated as the numbers are getting better. Nigeria’s headline inflation ticked up to 15.93 per...
The exposure draft of revised Financial Holding Company (FHC) guidelines released on on June 10 by the Central Bank of...
For a long time, Zambia has occupied a rare, enviable niche in African politics as a reliable laboratory for the...
Common Thread Across this week’s contributions, a clear analytical thread emerges: systems without accountability eventually generate parallel realities that replace...
Guaranty Trust Holding Company (GTCO) habours a bank of silent riddles. Nigeria’s most admired bank closed 2025 with N1.23 trillion...
On first inspection, the number looks like a vindication. Nigeria’s capital importation surged 84 per cent year-on-year to U$10.37 billion...
Weekly Summary: The June 01–05 edition of the Yaba School of Thought (YSOT) Weekly Newsletter examines Nigeria through a multi-layered...
South Africa offers a paradox that emerging-market analysts have become used to, awash with credible institutions but nonetheless striving so...
Nigeria’s insurers have long been the awkward guests at Africa’sfinancial services table. They are always present, but rarely significant. With...
Shoprite arrived Nigeria with fanfare, left Nigeria in silence, and took more than groceries with it. Nigeria had for long...
For over a decade, Nigeria’s Tier-1 lenders have crisscrossed the continent, planting corporate flags from Accra to Nairobi. Critics dismissed...
Weekly summary: This week’s edition traces a sobering arc across Nigeria and the wider continent: from questions of loyalty and...
Nigeria’s electric vehicle (EV) market is beginning to look less like a climate experiment and more like a serious industrial...
Political financing in Nigeria has long resembled a black box.But when the governors of Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress hold...