Opinion
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4.0KCapital Importation: Hot Money Influx Spurs Quarterly Capital Import to Five-year High … Renaissance or Deja vu?
This week, we focus on the recently published capital importation data for Q1:2025 which signalled the strongest investment flows in 20 quarters....
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4.0KCautious Growth Outlook Post-GDP Rebase
On July 21, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) unveiled the much-anticipated rebased GDP figures, updating the base year for real GDP...
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3.9KPre-MPC: Committee Likely to Lower the MPR by 50bps
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is scheduled to hold its next meeting on July 21st...
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3.9KNigeria’s Reform Push Yet to Reach Masses –IMF
The International Monetary Fund has raised concerns over the lack of a robust social safety net to protect poor Nigerians from the...
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4.0KWorld Bank: Nigeria Stuck in Lower Middle Income Economy Below Libya, Gabon
For the umpteenth time, the World Bank has classified Nigeria among Lower-Middle Income Economies (LMIEs) in its 2025/2026 country income classification, below...
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3.9KReform to Recovery: Still Navigating the Rebound
…2025 Half Year Outlook After a choppy 2024, the Nigerian economy is gradually finding its footing. As we envisaged, economic activity has...
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3.9KMade in Africa or Made from Africa? It’s Time to Choose
As trade frameworks worldwide are being rethought, nations are asking themselves tough questions about the resilience of their economies. Across Africa, one...
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3.4KMonthly Consumer Inflation Hits 2025-Low on Softer Core and Energy Price Trends
This week, we focus on the monthly CPI data for May which showed a continued downtrend in consumer inflation for the second...
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Headline Inflation Could Moderate Further in June
According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigeria’s headline inflation moderated by 74bps to 22.97% y/y in May (April: 24.23% y/y)....
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3.4KMacroeconomy: Nigeria’s Resilient Growth Outlook
This week, we dissect the second edition of the World Bank’s bi-annual Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report and the National Bureau of...
