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Banking
FY 2025:Access Holdings: lending as the engine, heavy impairments as the cost
In banking, everything else on the balance sheet — capital, reserves, investments — ultimately exists to support one function: lending.…
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Leaders
Appeal Court Affirms Ex-NEXIM Bank MD, Orya’s 490 Years Jail Term for N2.4b Fraud
Justice Muhammed Danjuma of the Court of Appeal, Abuja on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, affirmed the conviction and sentence of…
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Leaders
Union Bank: The Pharaoh’s Tomb and the Comfort of Darkness
By Amos Adetunji Is the government-appointed leadership at Union Bank failing because they cannot think differently, or because they have…
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Banking
Sterling Holdco: Cheap, Stunted, Ignored by the Market
Sterling Financial Holdings Company Plc trades at ₦7.75 – ₦7.80 on the Nigerian Exchange. In terms of absolute share price…
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Brands
FCMB Group Plc: The NGX Laggard — Cheap on Paper, Punished in the Market
While FCMB Group Plc just delivered a near-doubling of profit in H1 2026, the market has refused to reward it.…
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Finance & Economy
African Alliance Insurance Plc: From Regulatory Takeover to a Second Chance
For decades African Alliance Insurance Plc carried the weight of being one of Nigeria’s oldest life insurers. By mid-2023 the…
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Finance & Economy
Tinubu’s Big Bang Reforms: A Strategic Change Experiment in Real Time
Few governments in Nigeria’s history have attempted to reset so much, so fast. Within the first month of the Bola…
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Finance & Economy
Beyond the Politics of Uber’s Exit: What Nigeria Should Learn
Uber’s immediate withdrawal from Nigeria after twelve years is neither a self-contained verdict on the economy nor a development that…
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Finance & Economy
Watching Nigeria’s Fiscal Dial: The Case for a Fiscal Policy Committee
Nigeria’s fiscal policy is distributed across revenue administration, the annual budget, expenditure releases, cash management, domestic borrowing, debt service, tax…
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Building Materials
Dangote Cement Plc H1 2026 Results: Record Profit, Higher Margins and a Swing to Positive Net Cash
Dangote Cement closed the first half of 2026 with its strongest profit performance in company history, reporting profit after tax…
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