Author: Julius Alagbe
Julius Alagbe
Julius Alagbe is a senior financial journalist and Editor at MarketForces Africa with nearly two decades of experience in finance, accounting, and economics reporting.He is one of Nigeria's most prolific financial market reporters, covering capital markets, monetary policy, corporate earnings, banking, telecoms, and macroeconomic developments across Africa.Julius has built a strong footprint reporting on Nigeria's leading corporates and financial services sector, including coverage of the Nigerian Exchange Group, Central Bank of Nigeria monetary operations, MTN Nigeria, GTCO, and major investment banking transactions.He regularly monitors the CBN’s open market operations, interbank FX markets, and equity market movements, providing readers with real-time intelligence on Nigeria’s financial landscape.His reporting draws on direct access to institutional research from firms including Moody’s Ratings, CardinalStone Securities, Fitch, and other leading African investment houses.Julius brings analytical depth and editorial rigour to every story, making complex financial data accessible to professionals, investors, and policymakers across Africa.Julius Alagbe is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
In the secondary market for Nigerian government bonds, trading activity was mixed as investors evaluated their portfolios against targets.
Nigeria Targets $2.5bn Carbon Credit Investment by 2030 – VC Prof. Simon Ortuanya, Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), says Nigeria targets 2.5 billion dollars in high-integrity carbon credit investments by 2030, with its carbon market now established. Ortuanya disclosed this at the Stakeholders’ Validation Workshop on the Potential and Challenges of the Voluntary Carbon Market in Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja. The programme was organised by the Resources and Environmental Policy Research Centre, Environment for Development (REPRC-EfD), UNN. Ortuanya noted that carbon markets, especially those enabled by Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which allows countries…
Nigerian OMO and Treasury bills yields increased due to sell pressures across the short-, mid-, and long-term tenor instruments in the secondary market.
The Nigerian Exchange (NGX) market capitalisation shrank for the third trading session, with investors recording a loss of about N515 billion in portfolio value.
Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) says it uncovered patterns of price manipulation by some domestic airlines during the December 2025 festive season.
African Policymakers Renew Push for Visa-Free Travel African policymakers, business leaders, and development institutions have renewed calls for visa-free travel across the continent, describing the free movement of people as essential to unlocking Africa’s economic transformation under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The call was reinforced at a High-Level Symposium on Advancing a Visa-Free Africa for Economic Prosperity, co-convened by the African Development Bank Group and the African Union Commission on the margins of the 39th African Union Summit of Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa. Participants framed mobility as the missing link in Africa’s integration…
The U.S. dollar weakened against other major currencies amid geopolitical concerns and trade uncertainties, fuelling negative sentiment.
The euro area annual inflation rate was 1.7% in January 2026, down from 2.0% in December. A year earlier, the rate was 2.5%. European Union annual inflation was 2.0% in January 2026, down from 2.3% in December.
Egypt has unlocked access to a $2.3 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) following the completion of the Fifth and Sixth Reviews Under the Extended Arrangement Under the Extended Fund Facility and First Review Under the Resilience and Sustainability Arrangement.
Ripple (XRPUSD) has gained 5.5% over the last 24 hours in the cryptocurrency market, supported by renewed short-term interest in altcoins.