OPay, a leading fintech company in Nigeria, officially launched its new office in Kaduna State on Wednesday, 10 June 2026, marking another important milestone in the company’s commitment to expanding ...
The National Pension Commission and the National Union of Road Transport Workers have begun discussions on a partnership aimed at enrolling an estimated nine million transport workers into the Persona...
The Central Bank of Nigeria’s ambition to transform its payment ecosystem through biometric-driven and “invisible” transactions may redefine how millions of citizens pay for goods and services, but th...
Nigeria’s current account surplus rose sharply by 255.7 per cent quarter-on-quarter to $4.98bn in the first quarter of 2026, driven by higher crude oil, gas and refined petroleum exports, as well as a...
Nigeria’s leading economists and financial experts have disagreed with some of the latest policy prescriptions by the International Monetary Fund, IMF, for Nigeria, even as they endorsed the Fund’s wa...
Nigeria lost an estimated $839.22 million in oil revenue in the first four months of 2026 after failing to meet its 1.5 million barrels per day (mbpd) crude oil production quota set by the Organisatio...
Nigeria’s headline inflation rate has gone up again, the third consecutive month, in May 2026, hitting 15.93 percent The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, announced the increase in its latest consum...
FirstBank Nigeria yesterday announced that FirstAdvance, its flagship salary backed digital loan product, has hit a milestone of N1 billion daily disbursement. The bank, in a statement, said that the ...
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has directed banks, fintechs and other operators in the payments ecosystem to store all payment transaction data generated in Nigeria within the country, while also i...
Foreign investors channelled $3.23bn into Nigerian bonds in the first quarter of 2026, highlighting a strong appetite for the country’s fixed-income securities amid elevated interest rates and improvi...