Business & Economy

The Nigerian naira put in another calm session on Tuesday, trading around ₦1,368 to the United States dollar on the official Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM), even as the parallel...

FirstHoldCo Plc has done it again. In today's trading, the parent company of First Bank of Nigeria pushed past N6 trillion in market capitalisation, a first for any Nigerian banking...

Guinea has become the first country within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to formally and publicly reject the bloc's long-planned single currency, the eco, dealing an early...

The naira opened the trading week on a stable footing against the US dollar, with both the official and parallel foreign exchange windows showing only modest movement as the market...

Crude oil markets staged their sharpest single-day retreat in weeks on Monday, as traders rushed to price in the possibility that the most acute phase of the Iran-U.S. standoff may...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament has thrown its weight behind a sweeping push to harmonise customs procedures, import regulations, taxation policies and business registration requirements across...

OPEC+ moved on Sunday to raise its collective oil production quota by roughly 188,000 barrels per day for September, marking the fourth consecutive month the alliance has enacted an identical...

South Africa's Department of Home Affairs has moved from talk to paperwork on charging for its Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA), publishing draft regulations that would introduce a ZAR 500 processing...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) closed out the first half of 2026 on its strongest footing in nearly a year, reporting a profit after tax of N535 billion...

First HoldCo has adopted a new dividend policy committing to pay out at least 60 percent of its annual post-tax profit, a decisive pivot to shareholder returns after absorbing one...