Wema Bank Releases unaudited results for H1 2025, Profit Before Tax climbs 231% to N101.2billion

  Wema Bank Plc, Nigeria’s oldest indigenous bank, most resilient and pioneer of Africa’s first fully digital bank, ALAT, has released its unaudited consolidated financial statements for the half-year period ended June 30, 2025, to the Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX).   On track to set an unprecedented benchmark, Wema Bank’s […]

GDP Growth Unsustainable Amid Worsening Electricity Supply, Says Rewane

    An economist and Managing Director of Financial Derivatives Company Ltd, Bismarck Rewane, has warned that Nigeria’s continued electricity supply crisis poses a serious threat to the country’s economic stability and long-term growth, declaring that current GDP progress is unsustainable without immediate and comprehensive reforms in the power sector. […]

Moody’s Upgrades Ecobank Ratings Outlook to Stable

  Moody’s has affirmed Ecobank Transnational Incorporated’s (ETI) B3/Not Prime long- and short-term issuer ratings; B3 senior unsecured debt rating; b2 notional Baseline Credit Assessment (BCA); and b1 Adjusted BCA. At the same time, rating analysts at Moody’s said they have changed the outlook on the group’s long-term issuer and senior […]

LCCI Urges Economic Action as Nigeria’s Q1 GDP Grows 3.13% …Calls for Strategic Reforms Amid Rising Inflation, Weak Naira

  The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has urged the Nigerian government to shift focus from statistical optimism to real economic reform, following the release of rebased GDP data and the 3.13% real growth recorded in the first quarter of 2025.   While acknowledging that the rebasing exercise—updating […]