There are indications that management of the Nigeria Stock Exchange acted independently of the Council of the Exchange and the broking community when it banned broking and research firms from distributing or using the market data of the Exchange. Vanguard investigations reveal the ban came as a surprise to Council members as it was yet to be discussed their meetings.

Standard Chartered Bank’s Africa Chief Executive Officer, Diana Layfied, has said that the 14 percent intraregional trade among African countries is still too low compared to 80 percent intraregional trade in the European Union and Asia’s 60 percent

Ahead of the official commencement of the much-anticipated Mobile Number Portability (MNP) service, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has listed roles expected of stakeholders, particularly telecoms subscribers towards making the scheme successful.

The World Consumers Rights day was recently celebrated globally with regulators across the marketing communications industry, telecom, manufacturing, standards, foods and drugs industries pointing to poverty, weak regulations and failure of consumers to pursue their case as some of the challenges facing regulators to protect rights of Nigerian consumers.

For the second consecutive week, the volume and value of bonds traded on the Nigeria Stock Exchange fell significantly, reflecting declining interest among investors.