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CBN Includes Additional Provision For Dividend Pay-Outs For Nigerian Banks

Culled—Proshare February 20, 2018 The New CBN Regulation on Dividend on Bank Shares – Likely Impact  A local newspaper reported today that CBN released a circular barring banks with significant NPL ratios from paying dividends.  While a circular was indeed released recently, unlike what the news article suggests, this ban […]

Nigerian Stocks Up +0.38% on Gains in Dangote Cement, Nestle

February 20, 2018/InvestmentOne Report The Nigerian equities market closed positive today as ASI gained +0.38%.  However, market breadth index ended negative with 37 decliners against 18 gainers.  PZ (+5.00%) was the top gainer while CONOIL (-9.67%) had the worst performance.  The most actively traded stock was FBNH (-7.26%) with c.115million […]

Return to the Eurobond Market in Good Time

Culled—Proshare February 20, 2018/FBNQuest Research  The FGN has returned to the Eurobond market for the second time since February 2017, and attracted what the DMO terms a “peak order book” of more than US$11.5bn. In another successful issue, it has priced its offering of US$2.5bn, divided equally between 12- and […]