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Foreign, Domestic Investors’ Transaction Decline By 41% In 9 Months

Foreign and domestic participation in equities trading at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) suffered significant decline of 40.59 per cent in the first nine months of the year. The latest report of domestic & foreign portfolio participation in equity trading, September 2016 on the NSE...

SEC to Open Stock Market to Small-Scale Investors

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a bid to simplify stock market’s account opening process and requirements for low-income and financially- excluded segment of the population. This is part of efforts to widen the domestic investors’base. Less than three per cent of the population...

NSE Ends Q3 With N432bn Loss

In spite of the 0.31 per cent appreciation recorded by the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) All-Share Index and market capitalisation at the close of last trading week of the third quarter of 2016, shareholders lost N432 billion during the period under review. The NSE All-Share...

NDIC Charges Jaiz Bank to Uphold Good Corporate Governance

The Management of Jaiz Bank Plc has been advised to strengthen its corporate governance in order to weather the storm of economic challenges that is currently facing Nigeria’s banking industry. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim gave...