🇳🇬 NGX extends trading window to 4 p.m. to boost liquidity
The Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) has extended its daily trading window to 4:00 p.m., a significant operational change effective from April 21, 2026...
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🇳🇬 Why we reviewed our services, fees – CSCS
Nigeria's financial markets are undergoing their most significant structural reforms in years. The Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) has extended its tr...
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🇰🇪 Co-op Bank takes networking gala to Coast
Co-operative Bank of Kenya has intensified its retail banking footprint by hosting a high-profile networking gala on the Coast, marking a strategic pu...
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🇳🇬 Ecobank’s N1.21 trillion profit sparks debate over strategy
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated's N1.21 trillion pre-tax profit for 2025—a robust 23.6% year-on-year increase from N986.6 billion in 2024—marks a s...
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🇳🇬 Nigeria's Equity Rally Masks Structural Fragility in
Nigeria's stock market delivered a robust 2.49% gain on 17 April 2026, with the All-Share Index surging past the psychologically significant 217,000 l...
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🇿🇦 Hack job: Standard Bank is discovering the extent of the
South Africa's Standard Bank, one of Africa's largest financial institutions by market capitalization, is navigating a deepening cybersecurity catastr...
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🇳🇬 Champion Breweries lists 2.38 billion new ordinary
Champion Breweries Plc has executed a significant capital restructuring on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX), listing 2.38 billion new ordinary shar...
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🇳🇬 Africa runs on digital payments. Now it must build for
Africa's digital payments ecosystem has become the continent's financial backbone, processing billions of transactions annually across mobile money pl...
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🇳🇬 Naira volatility cost his family. He built an FX platform
Nigeria's naira has lost approximately 60% of its value against the US dollar since 2021, a depreciation that has quietly decimated wealth across the ...
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🇳🇬 Tulupay Announces the Prelaunch of its Pan African First
Africa's payments landscape remains one of the continent's most fragmented markets, with dozens of competing platforms operating across disparate regu...
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🇳🇬 BREAKING: CBN launches NOFR benchmark, adopts new overnight
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has introduced the Nigerian Overnight Financing Rate (NOFR), a structural reform designed to modernize Africa's seco...
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🇳🇬 CBN, financial markets dealers introduce new money market
Nigeria's Central Bank has taken a significant step toward modernizing its financial infrastructure by launching the Nigerian Overnight Financing Rate...
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🇿🇦 Absa boosts fuel cashback as petrol prices surge
** South Africa's banking sector is quietly signalling alarm about household cash flow deterioration. Absa Group Limited, one of Africa's largest fin...
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🌍 Malawi’s questionable hotel deal lingers
Malawi's financial sector remains under intense scrutiny following parliamentary disclosures that investigators have traced 72.6 billion kwacha—approx...
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🇰🇪 Ted Pantone on building Turaco, surviving Covid, and aiming
Kenya's insurance technology sector has become a magnet for venture capital and entrepreneurial ambition, yet few founders have demonstrated the disci...
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🇳🇬 Afriq Arbitrage: Anambra investor alleges $82,000 locked
The cryptocurrency sector across Africa continues to face significant credibility challenges following allegations that Afriq Arbitrage System (AAS), ...
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🇳🇬 Nigerian stocks break 200,000: Extended bullish run or
Nigeria's stock market has entered uncharted territory. The All-Share Index (ASI) of the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) has broken through the 200,000-point ...
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🇳🇬 We receive N1.5m after 35 years of service, retired police
Nigeria's contributory pension scheme is facing a legitimacy crisis as retired police officers publicly denounce retirement benefits so inadequate tha...
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🇰🇪 Former Airport Sacco officials owe Sh50mn in unpaid loans
A significant governance crisis at Kenya's Airport Sacco has surfaced, revealing approximately Sh50 million (approximately €375,000) in unpaid loans o...
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🇳🇬 Pound to Naira exchange rate today, April 17, 2026
Nigeria's currency markets sent a reassuring signal on April 17, 2026, as the naira held relatively steady against sterling across both official and i...
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