Banking
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FCMB’s Cheap Stock : A Red Flag, Not a Bargain
When FCMB took the international license during the just-concluded CBN recapitalization, the move looked like a bid to signal a…
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How Nigeria’s “Banking Geniuses” Humbled in 2025
For years, Nigeria’s Tier-1 bank CEOs rode a wave of FX revaluation gains and regulatory forbearance, branding themselves as world-class…
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How 2025’s Lending Trade-Offs Left Nigerian Bank CEOs Bleeding
In banking, the loan portfolio is both the engine of profit and the source of greatest risk. It is the…
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Wema Bank’s Porous Defenses: How a N25m Heist Exposes the Fragility of Nigeria’s Digital Banking
Malik Lawal’s father was travelling to Akure with his phone in his pocket when N25 million vanished from his Wema…
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ETI Q1 2026: N48.83trn in Assets, N1.92trn in Market Capitalisation, and the Valuation Discount That Remains
ETI’s Q1 2026 results revisit a question that institutional investors have circled around for the better part of a decade,…
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Ecobank’s 2025 Results: A Profitable Bank Walking a Tightrope of Risk and Cost
Ecobank’s 2025 audited results tell a story of growth shadowed by fragility. On the surface, profit after tax climbed 23%…
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Why Some Bank Dividends are Paused and What it Means for Investors
There is a quiet but important shift underway in Nigeria’s banking sector, and shareholders are beginning to feel it through…
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EcoBank, Access, UBA ,Others in Trouble With Heavy Loan Losses
Concerns over banking sector stability have deepened after three commercial banks failed to declare dividends for the 2025 financial year,…
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CBN Scraps Card Maintenance Fees, Raises ATM Card Charges in New Banking
CBN Scraps Card Maintenance Fees, Raises ATM Card Charges in New Banking GuidelinesBy Philip Shimnom ClementMon, 4 May 2026 4:10:16…
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Access Holdings: The Price of Asset Power With Poor Stretch and Leverage
By size, it towers over every peer on the NGX. Yet size has not translated to strength where it matters…
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