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Nigeria in 2021: Navigating murky waters
Nigeria’s economy, like the rest of the world, has had to struggle through the impact of COVID 19. At the centre of Nigeria’s economic challenges is FX. While investors’ outstanding backlogs have dropped from US$2bn in August to US$600-800mn in Decem...


Nigeria struggles with Covid second wave and lack of vaccines
Nigeria struggled with the first Covid wave, but the death count and impact on healthcare was not as bad as seen in other parts of the world, or as expected. Okonjo Iweala, the board chair of the GAVI alliance said that COVAX has been able to secure...


9 companies tackling Nigeria’s energy crisis
Although Nigeria has failed to solve its energy crisis (despite the power sector’s privatisation in 2013), various companies are now rising to the challenge providing unique solutions across the value chain. Nigeria received US$203.3mn (according to...


Nigeria Banks: Q4 20 preview – top factors to shape performance
A direct outcome of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)'s expansionary policy actions has been the downward pressure in net interest margins, which will be reflected in Q4 20’s numbers. Bearing the above in mind, and in addition to the regulatory-induc...


20 best Emerging Market stocks through the pandemic
Jumia is known as the Amazon of Africa. Sea’s exponential rise has made it the largest company in ASEAN, a region of 600mn people. We identified Fawry as an EM tech stock to watch in July 2020, when the pre-unicorn company had a market cap of US$735m...


Oil: The cheapest oil exporter equity markets
Covid-19 second waves, the reliance on Saudi unilaterally shouldering the burden of marginal output restraint, and the fragile nature of Saudi-Russia cooperation tempers our optimism on oil relative to other commodities with secular demand drivers (e...

