Zenith Bank Plc’s shareholders now own 53 percent more equity than they did at June 2024, but the bank earns 25 percent less profit on it. Equity attributable to owners rose to N4.88 trillion from N3.

ZER Consulting Africa’s SCALE Scorecard report suggests that many African businesses have the ambition and organisational ...

Moniepoint Microfinance Bank is using transaction histories, business patterns and payment behaviour to assess the creditworthiness of small businesses, as the financial technology company expands ...

The agreement was reached on Saturday, October 17, in Dakar, Senegal, at the first ministerial meeting of the ECOWAS-AES Dialogue on Cooperation. It provides a formal channel for the two sides to ...

Econet InfraCo, the tower infrastructure subsidiary of Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, has cut diesel costs by 30 percent after deploying an artificial intelligence (AI) system to optimise generator use, ...

The Federal Government is targeting a more than threefold increase in retail investors and a 71 percent expansion in listed companies by 2036, as it seeks to deepen capital formation, attract private ...

Beneath the red earth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo lie minerals indispensable to the modern industrial world. Thousands of miles away, Chinese factories refine materials for batteries, and ...

Nigeria’s life expectancy is among the lowest in the world, and the way we finance and deliver healthcare helps explain why. Too much spending goes towards treating diseases after they become serious, ...

On October 14, 2026, the US Consulate General in Lagos recognised eight Nigerian creative leaders at an event themed “Reel Connections from Hollywood to Nollywood.” The initiative highlighted the ...

A Treasury Bill is a short loan you make to the federal government. A money market fund is a pool of investors’ money that a fund manager places in Treasury bills and bank deposits. Both pay you for ...

BusinessDay, established in 2001, is a daily business newspaper based in Lagos — the only Nigerian newspaper with a bureau in ...

Then HR and executives gather around the table, diagnose the problem and announce that the Balanced Scorecard is not working. Really? Which part exactly? Robert Kaplan and David Norton’s Balanced ...