Sam Diala is a Business Editor at THEWILL. With over a decade of experience as a Bloomberg Certified Financial Journalist, he specializes in finance, investment, and the banking sector, while also covering critical topics such as energy policy, oil and gas, and commercial airlines. His work has been featured in various reputable platforms, highlighting his expertise in investment strategies and wealth management.
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By: Sam Diala
Announced amid renewed pressure from high fuel prices, rising transport costs and persistent household hardship, the initiative is being presented by the government as a targeted intervention to cushion the impact of global crude oil price volatility without returning the country to the costly petrol subsidy regime abolished in May 2023.
By: Sam Diala
Women are not asking Nigeria for charity. They are asking for the opportunity, capital, education, security and institutional space to convert their enormous contribution into economic and political power.
Wema Bank's H1 numbers reveal an institution that is growing rapidly, but whose growth is accompanied by falling earnings per share, a sharp contraction in fee income, rising loan-impairment charges, deteriorating cost efficiency and loan expansion that is running considerably faster than deposit mobilisation.
At the commission's 2026 annual media conference in Lagos recently, PenCom's director-general, Ms Omolola Oloworaran, presented a catalogue of reforms and performance indicators showing a pension industry that has expanded significantly in assets, membership, compliance and investment reach.
Sterling Financial Holdings Company Plc delivered an impressive set of 2026 half-year results, with gross earnings rising by 31.5 percent to N279.6 billion and profit after tax climbing by 20.4 percent to N50.30 billion.
For decades, the NNPC Limited has occupied a central but complicated position in Nigeria's economy. It is simultaneously a commercial enterprise, a custodian of the country's interests in the petroleum industry and a strategic instrument of government energy policy. Reconciling these responsibilities with the discipline required of a modern commercial enterprise has remained a defining challenge.
For decades, the NNPC Limited has occupied a central but complicated position in Nigeria's economy. It is simultaneously a commercial enterprise, a custodian of the country's interests in the petroleum industry and a strategic instrument of government energy policy. Reconciling these responsibilities with the discipline required of a modern commercial enterprise has remained a defining challenge.
By: Sam Diala
At the January 2026 launch of the Gas Master Plan in Abuja, NNPC Group Chief Executive Officer, Bashir Ojulari, said the investments could expand demand for Nigerian pipeline contractors, fabrication companies, gas-processing equipment suppliers, engineering consultants, maintenance providers and technical workers.
By: Sam Diala
The UNDP–Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative report released on October 12, 2026, highlights deprivation across health, education, and living standards. It also identifies particularly severe poverty in rural communities and northern Nigeria. According to the report, 113 million Nigerians, or 48.7 per cent of the population, are classified as multi dimensionally poor.
By: Sam Diala
Coronation Group's N200 billion Coronation Infrastructure Fund (CIF) represents a potentially significant intervention in the country's quest to convert financial resources into productive economic assets.
