Sam Diala, THEWILL

Advisers Emerge For Dangote Refinery Planned Listing On Nigerian Exchange

March 03, (THEWILL) — As the Dangote Refinery prepares for its landmark listing on the main board of the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX), indications emerged on Friday that Stanbic IBTC Capital, a leading investment bank in Nigeria and a...

PenCom Launches New Digital Portal For Federal Retirees COBRA

March 02, (THEWILL) — In a major move to modernise Nigeria’s pension landscape, the National Pension Commission has officially launched a comprehensive digital overhaul of the retirement process for federal employees. This was disclosed in the Guidelines for Verification and...

Nigeria’s Jobless GDP Growth Eclipses Impending Food Crisis, Worsening Poverty

March 02, (THEWILL) — Nigeria's real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) recorded a year-on-year growth of 4.07 percent in the fourth quarter of 2025, which is being hailed as the highest quarterly growth rate since Q4 2024. However, this figure...

New Moniepoint Report Validates NIBSS’s Critical Role in e-Payment Evolution

March 01, (THEWILL) — A recent case study conducted by Moniepoint has uncovered the growing prevalence of electronic transfers as a payment method throughout both urban and rural areas of Nigeria, while cash transactions are gradually fading away. This...

Guinea Insurance Profit Slumps 69% Amid Persistent Dividend Drought

February 23, (THEWILL) — Guinea Insurance Plc reported a substantial profit decline of 69.4 percent according to its financial statements for the period ending December 31, 2025. Within this time frame, the company’s post-tax profit fell to N286 billion...

PENGASSAN’s Obsession with Moribund Refineries

February 22, (THEWILL) — While the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has initiated the process of privatising the underperforming state-owned refineries, members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) persist in their coercive...

Unaudited FY 2025 Results: First HoldCo Plc Posts N3.4trn in Gross Earnings, Reflecting Strategic Post-Recapitalisation Consolidation

February 02, (THEWILL) — First Holdco Plc has released its 2025 Unaudited Consolidated and Separate Financial Statements for the year ended December 31, 2025, reporting gross earnings of N3.4 trillion amid record impairment charges driven by strategic post-recapitalisation consolidation. FirstHoldCo...

Bank Recapitalisation: NDIC Mandate Reinforces Confidence in Framework for System Stability

February 01, (THEWILL) — A crucial factor for the success of the current bank recapitalisation is the ability of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) to safeguard depositors and enhance the stability of the banking system, in accordance with...

PenCom Increases NSITF Pensions by 1,173%, Pays N8.70bn Arrears

February 01, (THEWILL) — The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has approved an upward review of pensions for 2,116 retirees under the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), increasing their total monthly pension payments from N12.56 million to N159.95 million. The...

Moniepoint Microfinance Bank Disburses over N1trn Credit to Small Businesses

February 01, (THEWILL) — Moniepoint Inc., leading Nigeria's fintech company, has released its ‘2025 Year in Review’, marking a decade of "financial happiness" and a transformative year of growth. Highlighting its role as the backbone of Nigeria's entrepreneurial economy with...

About Me

Sam Diala is a Bloomberg Certified Financial Journalist with over a decade of experience in reporting Business and Economy. He is Business Editor at THEWILL Newspaper, and believes that work, not wishes, creates wealth.
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