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The Economic Community of West African states has condemned recent attacks on Benin border districts with Niger and Burkina Faso. 

Can ECOWAS curb security concerns amid junta-led breakaway?

It is two weeks past the deadline set for banks to meet up with Nigeria’s windfall tax deduction as issues around the calculation of the due tax remains a concern.

Addressing Nigeria’s windfall tax concerns

CFG Advisory says households, firms and investors should be prepared for a continued high-interest rate regime and another 12 months of economic recovery reforms this year.

CFG Advisory: Move excess liquidity, profit into value retaining assets to hedge

The Senior Counel at Dentons, Raj Kulsingam and Vishal Agarwal, Chairman and CEO of Full Circle Africa say there are bright spots for companies that show profitability this year despite recent funding squeeze. 

How will Africa’s VC & private equity firms fare in 2025?

Analysts at Moody’s Ratings say they expect the outlook for credit fundamentals for Sub-Saharan African sovereigns to remain stable, up from negative last year. 

Moody’s: SSA credit fundamentals stable

Ayo Andrew Anthony, Head of Price Statistics at the National Bureau of Statistics says the rebasing of Nigeria’s Consumer Price Index will bring more items into the basket and compute an index that reflects the current consumption patterns. 

CPI rebasing: Nigeria’s rebased CPI basket to cover 960 items 

Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics in partnership with the Nigerian Economic Summit Group held a sensitisation workshop to update stakeholders in the Nigerian economy about the progress on the rebasing of the GDP and Consumer Pric

NBS: GDP & CPI rebasing designed to reflect economic indicators accurately 

Traders say they expect an agile session today as market players look to fill unmet bids at the primary market auction. Investors await Wednesday’s Treasury-bills auction results where the DMO offered a sum of 515 billion naira. 

Banks prefer CBN’s SDF window over OMO auctions 

Looking ahead to 2025, Nigeria’s mining sector is set for continued growth, even though it remains in the early stages of development. 

Navigating Nigeria’s energy sector

AFEX Commodities Exchange says commodity prices are projected to rise to historical highs, in their wet season crop production report. 

AFEX: Commodity prices projected to rise to historical highs

Tilewa Adebajo, the CEO of CFG Advisory, joins CNBC Africa to discuss these stories as we put West Africa in perspective. 

CFG Advisory: Nigeria needs urgent capital structure & balance sheet rework

Wale Abioye, a Partner at KPMG joins CNBC Africa for this discussion.

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