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OpinionMedium
Headline inflation dropped to 14.63% and monthly price growth was almost zero. Inside the same release, energy inflation more than doubled. That is the number that decides what happens next.
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OpinionMedium
Dangote Refinery could have closed its share sale on 13 October with more money than it asked for. It pushed the deadline to 27 October instead. The reason is not financial, and it is worth understanding before you apply.
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OpinionMedium
A $7bn fintech built on African transactions floated in London with a UK-only retail offer, and Nigeria's SmartCash sits outside the listed group entirely.
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OpinionLow
₦70,000 ranks 17th of 22 African countries. Labour wants ₦500,000 and talks now; government says June 2027. What the numbers actually support.
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OpinionLow
Nigeria's MPR fell from 26.5% to 23% days after the Fed hiked. The CBN called it an operational reset — the label matters more than it sounds.
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OpinionMedium
Nigerian stablecoin volume runs to about $22 billion while cNGN sits near ₦2.3 billion. That gap is a verdict on the naira — and it carries real risks.
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OpinionHigh
In an economy where nobody publishes what things cost, the person with the least information pays the most. That is a tax, and it falls hardest on people who can least afford it.
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OpinionHigh
Chipmakers are funding their own customers while 90% of firms report no productivity gain. Nigeria sits outside the loop, not outside its consequences.
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OpinionHigh
Petrol moved ₦185 in 22 days, then fell ₦25. Deregulation explains the swings — and why pump prices rise faster than they fall.
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OpinionHigh
An analysis by RainingMoney on the economic risks and fiscal pressures that arise when election outcomes are assumed to be settled, examining spending incentives, policy uncertainty, and Nigeria's tax reform implementation.
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OpinionHigh
The headline says the funding winter is over. The composition of the money says something different, and founders are about to find out what.
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OpinionHigh
Africa's largest-ever share sale is being marketed as national participation. Before you send your ₦5,250, here is what you are actually buying — and the one number that decides whether it works.
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OpinionHigh
Nigeria's inflation rate has cooled for three months straight. Your market money has not gone further. Here is why there is no contradiction, and why nobody explains it to you.
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OpinionHigh
The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates on 16 September for the first time in three years. Nobody in Abuja voted for it, and it will shape what the CBN can do next.
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