Nigerian Consumer Credit Drops 19.89% to N3.78 Trillion as Personal Loans Plummet

LAGOS – Consumer credit outstanding in Nigeria fell 19.89% to N3.78 trillion in 2025 from N4.72 trillion in 2024. The N939.53 billion contraction marks the...

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Nigerian Consumer Credit Drops 19.89% to N3.78 Trillion as Personal Loans Plummet

IMF Concludes $3 Billion Ghana Program with Final $371 Million Payout as Inflation Drops to 5.3%

Nigerian Naira Holds Stable at N1,362/$ Across Official Windows

Nigeria’s Bad-Bank Asset Recoveries Surge 64% to $107 Million in H1 2026

$70 Billion FDI and Counting: Where Investors are Stashing Money in Africa

South Africa Central Bank Holds Repo Rate at 7.0% in Surprise Pause

Airtel Africa Selects London Stock Exchange for $10 Billion Mobile Money IPO

Nigeria’s Private Sector Credit Rebounds to N83.26 Trillion in June

Nigeria Digitizes Forex Oversight To Curb Street-Market Dollar Speculation

Nigeria: On the Back of $52B Reserves, Cardoso Projects Unprecedented Foreign Investment Surge

Egypt’s First-Quarter Current Account Deficit Doubles to $5.1 Billion Amid Import Pressures

Nigeria: Naira Resists Extreme Volatility Despite Late-Week Slide to N1,379

Nigeria: CBN reprices one-year Treasury Bills to 17.7% to mop up system liquidity

Nigeria’s Forex Turnover Hits Record $3.05B as Weekly Liquidity Surges 7.7%

Elumelu Steps Down as UBA Chairman Following CBN Tenure Limit, Nnorom Named Successor

Ghana Boosts Fiscal Credibility with Ahead-Of-Schedule $700 Million Eurobond Payout

Nigeria Central Bank Revokes 46 Microfinance Licenses Amid Liquidation Wave

FTSE Russell Puts Nigeria’s Frontier Market Upgrade Under Review Over T+1 Shift

Nigeria FX Turnover Surges to $2.84B as Central Bank Interventions Fuel Liquidity Boost

Bharti Airtel Secures 79% Control Of African Unit In $2.9 Billion Share Swap

Nigeria’s Stock Exchange Scraps Uniform Price Rules for New Tiered Volume Framework

FX Inflows Push Nigeria’s External Reserves to $51.04bn, 17-Year High

$100M: Why the AfDB Just Bought Its Way Into the ECOWAS Development Bank

Afreximbank Secures BBB+ Investment-Grade S&P Rating to Defy Fitch’s Junk Status

IMF Concludes Mozambique Mission as Debt Levels and Early Repayments Strain Economy

Nigeria moves to protect banks with strict limits on affiliate exposure

Exclusive: Nigeria’s SEC to provide update on capital recapitalization end June

Nigeria’s Capital Market Recapitalisation Revisited

Nigeria: CBN Hikes Interest Rates to Raise N1.46 Trillion Amid Surging Demand

FDI $135m, FPI $9.8b: Nigeria records $10 billion foreign capital inflow in Q1

Digital Gold Rush: Retail Participation Overwhelms Nigerian Capital Market Infrastructure

Defying Easing Signals, Nigerian Bank Reserves Surge as Informal Cash Drops 2%

AfDB Summit Opens in Congo Under Ebola Shadow as Aid Plummets

IMF Veteran Takes the Helm of Benin’s Finance Ministry

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