Kickstarting Your Career as a Financial Analyst Introduction A financial analyst is a professional who provides insights from financial data Oftentimes, responsible for various tasks including organizing, analysing, and reporting data, building financial models, and making forecasts and recommendations to help guide decision making. Financial analysis guides the decision-making…
Introduction With the numerous challenges that have been facing Nigeria; from Covid 19, inflation, increase in the exchange rate, debt problems, effects of the Russia-Ukraine war, increasing poverty and more. A lot of Nigerians would have been more agitated when they heard International Oil Companies (IOCs) who produce most of…
What’s been happening at Twitter? Twitter a social networking platform was founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, and 3 other people. In its 16 years of operation, the company has grown to an average of 330 million monthly active users and added several features such as the super follow button,…
Most people can produce several business ideas over the course of their lifetime. Some of these ideas seem like the best thing that happened since sliced bread while others seem “meh” after a while. In both cases though, the most critical questions that need to be answered are: Do people want this? Will people pay money for this? How much are they willing to pay? Does this business idea have a high potential to be profitable? …
On Monday, October 25, 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari unveiled the eNaira. The President stated at the formal launch in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), that the new initiative would help to improve the Nigerian economy and help it keep abreast with global financial trends. Several prominent financial and economic experts…
In a prior article, I introduced you to dashboards, what they are and why Excel is still relevant when building automated dashboards. Many a time, I’ve seen people jump into building dashboards without necessarily setting the right foundations. This often results in generic and not-so-useful outputs. Remember what happens to…
Monday, March 1st, three years ago, Leonine officially commenced operations as a financial services firm in Nigeria, supporting businesses and professionals to reach full potential. We are marking this milestone with the theme #3yearsofbuildingtrust. Reports have cited the lack of access to finance as one of the biggest challenges facing founders…
Landmark merger and acquisition transactions that occurred across the Nigerian banking industry in 2006 will go down in history as some of the board room events that have most helped to stimulate Nigeria’s economy following the deepening of financial services industry as a result of these transactions. United Bank of…
For over 20 years, the agricultural sector, one of Nigeria’s largest contributors to GDP and the largest employer of labour, remains underutilized, despite the fact that it is reportedly touted as Nigeria’s untapped route to prosperity. From a total land capacity of about 125 million hectares, Nigeria currently boasts of…
“I don’t have an account, and I can never have one till I die. My pocket and my car are secure enough for me, no matter how much I have,” an Abuja resident, Ibrahim Gombe, told Premium Times. Mr. Gombe is one of over 30 million adult Nigerians who do…