🇳🇬 Just in: Senate passes N68trn 2026 budget
Nigeria's Senate has approved a significantly expanded 2026 budget of N68 trillion (approximately €82 billion), representing a N9 trillion increase fr...
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🇳🇬 Africa's Financial Infrastructure Surge Masks Credit
Africa's financial sector is experiencing a paradoxical moment. While headline metrics suggest unprecedented strength—African banks have crossed the $...
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🇳🇬 Africa's Financial Sector Hits $100B Revenue Milestone
Africa's banking sector has achieved a landmark moment: crossing the $100 billion annual revenue threshold for the first time. This milestone signals ...
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🇳🇬 Nigeria's Banking Sector Fortifies Against Cyber Threats
Nigeria's financial services ecosystem is undergoing a critical security overhaul as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) moves to systematically harden ...
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🇳🇬 Novastar Ventures closes $147 million third fund to drive
Novastar Ventures, one of Africa's most active venture capital firms, has successfully closed its third institutional fund at $147 million, marking a ...
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🇳🇬 Breaking: Senate approves Tinubu’s $6bn loan request
Nigeria's Senate has granted President Bola Tinubu expedited approval for a $6 billion external loan request, a decision that underscores both the urg...
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🇳🇬 Recapitalisation bancaire au Nigeria
Nigeria's central bank has achieved what many thought impossible: forcing the continent's most fragmented banking sector to consolidate and recapitali...
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🇳🇬 Tinubu seeks Senate approval for 9 trillion naira budget
President Bola Tinubu's request to increase Nigeria's 2026 budget by ₦9 trillion—pushing total expenditure from ₦58.4 trillion to ₦67.4 trillion—repre...
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🇳🇬 African Banking Sector Breaks $100B Revenue Barrier—What
Africa's financial services sector has reached a watershed moment. For the first time, African banks have collectively surpassed $100 billion in annua...
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🇳🇬 Nigeria's 7% Growth Gambit Hinges on Inclusive Leadership
Nigeria is at an inflection point. With Finance Minister Wale Edun publicly committing to a 7% annual GDP growth target, Africa's largest economy is s...
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🇳🇬 African banks surpass $100 billion in revenue
The African banking sector has crossed a historic threshold, generating over $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time—a watershed moment that...
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🇳🇬 Silicon Valley fintech models fail in Nigeria's unique
The African fintech narrative has become dangerously predictable. A charismatic founder returns from San Francisco with venture capital ambitions, lau...
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🇳🇬 How PAPSS is fixing Africa’s cross-border payments
Africa's financial sector has reached a watershed moment. For the first time, the continent's banking industry has surpassed $100 billion in annual re...
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🇳🇬 Best Platform to Sell Gift Cards in Nigeria & Ghana
The gift card economy in West Africa is experiencing a quiet but significant transformation. What began as a niche digital gifting mechanism has evolv...
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🇳🇬 Breaking: Tinubu writes Senate
President Bola Tinubu has formally requested Senate approval for a substantial $5 billion borrowing package, with immediate focus on a $1 billion UK E...
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🇳🇬 Francophone Africa's Digital Commerce Moment Requires
Francophone Africa stands at a critical inflection point in digital commerce. While Anglophone markets like Nigeria and Kenya have produced billion-do...
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🇳🇬 City Gate chairman backs Tinubu’s housing drive
Nigeria's housing crisis has reached critical proportions, with an estimated 17 million housing units needed to bridge the gap between current supply ...
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🇳🇬 Nigerians used 1.26 million terabytes of data in February
Nigeria's digital infrastructure experienced a notable correction in February 2026, with aggregate data consumption declining to 1.26 million terabyte...
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🇳🇬 Oil windfall: NLC’s insistence on eating the seed
Nigeria's recent oil price surge has reignited a fundamental economic policy conflict that carries significant implications for European investors mon...
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🇳🇬 LIRS extends deadline for individual tax filing to April 14
Nigeria's tax administration has extended its individual income tax filing deadline by two weeks, moving it from March 31 to April 14, 2026. While thi...
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