NIGERIA: Access Holdings PLC recently finally released its long awaited Audited Financial Results for June 30, 2025.Recall that they had notified the investing public of the delay in publishing their half year result twice, engendered by the complexity of the post-completion audit activities of their newly acquired sub-subsidiaries within the banking group, and getting Central Bank of Nigeria's approval for the result.  The delay in releasing the result had led to some shareholders selling off their stocks in the Financial institution, as some of them had expressed fear on the underlying reason for the delay. It was further exacerbated when a recent news revealed Access Bank's CEO, Roosevelt Ogbonna's splurge of millions of dollars on a UK property . While some investors did not see anything wrong with that news, others expressed concern, as Bankers are generally expected to be conservative in their vanity pursuits, especially in the eyes of curious and inquisitive custom...

Stock market participation in Africa remains extremely low. A report published in Nigeria by Nairametrics some months ago indicated that there were about 5 (five) million Central Securities Clearing Systems (CSCS) accounts in Nigeria, of which only about 100,000 were active. That means that less than 2% of Nigerians have CSCS accounts at all, and only 0.05% of the population were active on the Nigerian Stock market. Of course the picture is similar across most African countries.  While this is so, we have come across a lot of questions from people recently requesting to understand how to get started participating in the Stock market and investing in shares of quoted companies. This article is an attempt to provide a response to such requests and help get as many people as possible get started in their wealth creation journey. The Stock market is where securities or stocks or shares of Publicly listed Companies are traded every working day. In Nigeria, to participate in trading such...

    Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc Opened Series 15 – 16 Commercial Paper Issuance Worth Up to ₦50 Billion- Closes on the 15th of October. Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc has commenced its Series 15 & 16 Commercial Paper (CP) issuance, aiming to raise up to ₦50 billion as part of its ₦300 billion Commercial Paper Issuance Programme. A subsidiary of Dangote Industries Limited, the company specializes in refining, distributing, and marketing granulated sugar to wholesalers and major clients across various sectors. The current offer, which opened on Monday 13th of October, is expected to close on Wednesday, October 15, 2025.  With an installed refining capacity of 1.49 million metric tonnes annually, DSR remains the largest sugar refiner in Sub-Saharan Africa. The company has set its sights on producing an additional 1.5 million metric tonnes of refined sugar using domestically cultivated sugarcane, advancing its strategy to become a globally competitive, fully integrated sugar p...