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NIGERIA: Nigerian listed companies have begun releasing their audited 2025 results—and with them, dividend announcements are starting to roll in. For many investors, this is the moment that truly matters. Most of the results are looking much better than the previous year, especially for the real sector, recovering from the losses many of them recorded as a result of macro economic factors. Following the results are dividends which some of them that were hard hit by the sharp floating of the currency and deregulation of fuel in 2023 had not paid since then. Investors in turn are happy and are smiling to the bank with such cash returns to them.

How to Claim Your Unclaimed Dividend in Nigeria

Have You Ever Bought Shares In Nigerian Companies in the past? Public offer (Primary) or Secondary Market? Then this is for you. Several Nigerians participate in Public offers of Nigerian publicly listed companies without going further to register with stockbrokers. For instance, the last MTN public offer in 2022 had over 126,000 investors, according to MTN and Premium Times , but I would be surprised if up to half of such investors have done anything further after that investment. Similarly, GTCO recently did a public offer with not less than 130,000 domestic investors participating in it as reported by Guardian News . If you have ever participated in buying shares of Nigerian companies, chances are that you might have unpaid dividends waiting for you to claim (Free bucks, yeah!). Whether it was through an Initial Public offer, Public offer or bought from the Secondary market, if the company had ever declared dividends after your purchase then you are likely eligible to be ...

Lessons from Adesuwa Okunbo-Rhodes on Entrepreneurship and Investing in Africa

A few weeks ago, James Dumoulin of the School of Hard Knocks social media pages was in Nigeria for the first time, and he interviewed some Nigerian billionaires and multimillionaires including Aliko Dangote, Tony Elumelu, and Kola Karim, among others. One of the interviews that really connected with his audience and generated millions of views within a short time was the one he had with Adesuwa Okunbo-Rhodes, a private equity mogul operating out of Nigeria, who he termed “the $80 million woman” . Adesuwa is the founder and Managing Partner of Aruwa Capital Management. She describes herself on her Instagram Bio as a "Wife and Mother, Faith Driven Investor, Founder of Aruwa Capital, Pioneering gender lens investments in Africa" . Prior to founding Aruwa Capital, she had worked at Lehman Brothers, JPMorgan Chase, TLG Capital, and was the Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Syntaxis Capital Africa, a provider of growth capital to SMEs in Nigeria and across Sub-Saharan Afr...

Passive Income Investment Options- Dividend Paying Equity (Stocks)

One of the sweetest/orgasmic feelings one can get as an investor is the alert of cashflow into one's bank account from one's passive investments- more like getting your money to work for you while you sleep. Once the initial investment is made, without any extra effort on your part, you just receive regular inflow of cash either as interest or dividend payments. That is what a good Passive investment looks and feels like. If you have not had this feeling before, make a promise to yourself to avail yourself such privilege immediately after reading this article. You deserve it.

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