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