Sam Diala, THEWILL

Seplat Energy: How Gas Milestones are Powering a new Stock-Market Story

On September 10, Seplat Energy’s shares rose by the maximum daily limit of 10 per cent, helping the NGX recover from two consecutive sessions of losses. The rally was significant enough to help lift the wider market and restore about N100.5 billion to investors’ wealth.

From Dependency to Productivity: Reimagining Youth Empowerment as Nigeria’s Greatest Development Investment

Nigeria faces a fundamental choice: will its young population become the engine of economic transformation, or will millions of young Nigerians remain trapped between inadequate education, weak skills, unemployment, and poverty? The answer will determine not merely the future of Nigerian youths, but the future of Nigeria itself.

NIBSS Tech to Drive Mass Participation in Dangote, Other IPOs As NGX Returns to FTSE Russell Frontier Market

The Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) is fundamentally transforming the country’s payment infrastructure to facilitate widespread participation in initial public offerings and privatization transactions.

FCMB Group: How Recapitalisation is Rewriting the Earnings Story, Setting up a Stronger 2026

FCMB's market capitalisation had risen 49.7 percent to about N771.7 billion by August, even though its share price was still 2.9 percent lower year-to-date.

Beyond Filling Stomachs: Making Nutritious Food Affordable in Nigeria Through Local Production, Smart Markets and Better Policy

Food is supposed to do more than silence hunger. It must nourish the body, develop the brain, strengthen immunity and provide the energy required for people to learn, work and build productive lives.

The Hidden Economic Cost of Flooding and Environmental Degradation in Nigeria

SAM DIALA highlights Nigeria’s troubling situation and argues that the country can no longer afford to treat environmental sustainability as an afterthought.

How South-East Women are Reimagining Community Devt from the Grassroots

Sam Diala examines how the women of South-East Nigeria have turned the traditional August Meeting into a community development initiative supported by Nestle Nigeria

BUA Foods’ H’ Year Report: When Profit Growth Hides a Shrinking Food Market

BUA Foods Plc has every reason to celebrate its H1 2026 report—at least if the numbers are viewed through the conventional lens of profit and margins.

Nigeria’s Food Paradox: When Agricultural Abundance Fails to Feed a Nation

Nigeria’s food crisis presents one of the country’s most painful contradictions. The nation possesses vast arable land, millions of farmers, a favourable climate and an agricultural sector capable of producing enormous quantities of food. Yet millions of Nigerians go to bed hungry, food prices continue to climb.

Requiem for NICON: From Insurance Colossus to Corporate Ruin

There are corporate failures that deserve to be treated as ordinary business casualties. Companies rise, companies fall, markets change and inefficient businesses eventually disappear. But the demise of NICON Insurance Limited is different.

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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