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Nigerian stocks’ strong start to the year has helped them recover the market value wiped out by a sharp naira devaluation two years ago.

The West African nation’s benchmark index surged 31% this year, delivering the world’s second best dollar returns. The rally far outpaces the 11% gain in the broader emerging-market index and the 6.4% advance in a gauge of frontier-market stocks.

The stellar run has added $21 billion in market value, lifting capitalization to about $84 billion, roughly 58% higher than in January 2024, just before a sharp naira devaluation more than halved the dollar value of companies listed on the Lagos exchange.

The devaluation was part of President Bola Tinubu’s push to unify and liberalize the foreign-exchange market and bring in investment.

Companies whose valuations were battered by the naira’s fall have since shored up their balance sheets and returned to profitability, making them more attractive to investors, said Olabode Williams, an analyst at SBG Securities Ltd., a unit of Standard Bank Group Ltd. A lot of investors have started pricing in growth, he added.

Stock gains have also been underpinned by a firmer naira, now the world’s second-best performing currency this year of those tracked by Bloomberg with a more than 7% advance against the dollar.

Foreign participation is rebounding in tandem. Non-Nigerian trading in local equities surged to a 19-year high in 2025, according to data from the Nigerian Exchange Group. Transactions by foreign investors more than tripled to 2.65 trillion naira ($1.97 billion) from 852 billion naira a year earlier — the strongest level since 2007 and the highest combined inflows and outflows over the period.

CSL Stockbrokers Ltd., a unit of FCMB Group Plc, expects Nigeria’s stock market to surpass $100 billion this year, driven by the anticipated listings of the 650,000-barrel-a-day Dangote Refinery and fertilizer plant — both controlled by Africa’s richest person, Aliko Dangote, analyst Gloria Fadipe said in a phone interview.
“We project that base case, we can get up to 34.1% capital gains this year if the listings come to pass,” she said.

cule7:
Only a few number of Nigerians actually care about this. As long as the prices of foodstuff have not come down, the economy is still in shambles.

AMINDA:
This one was quickly pushed to frontpage but how about this? A balanced narrative is always ideal. Nigerians know what their lived realities are.

https://www.nairaland.com/8620346/nigeria-emerges-global-epicenter-hunger

nedu666:
Nothing new. Same thing that happened under obasanjo. Even dead stocks, companies without financial statements are rising, companies with turnover of 40m are even rising, so much Manipulation to trap unsuspecting newbies. Same thing that happened under obj

cule7:
Only a few number of Nigerians actually care about this. As long as the prices of foodstuff have not come down, the economy is still in shambles.

Basic123:
UNFORTUNATELY for you,food stuff prices have come down greatly!



FORTUNATELY for me, I am always happy whenever I check my stocks and I see bulls everywhere

ThiefnubuBandit:
Who dash you stocks? Dem dey call names of meat, periwinkle still dey raise hand up.

ThiefnubuBandit:
Everyday, one new propaganda. Tufiakwa! I spit on the head of Gbola Tinumbu.

Vision101:
You can't understand investment and economics language. That's why you called it propaganda. These are indices that determine the performance of an economy. The Nigerian economy is gradually turning to modern economy unlike your saviour's village artificial padding economics.