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The capital market focuses on long-term wealth creation.
Examples of instruments include:
• Equities (shares)
• Corporate bonds
• Government bonds
• Exchange Traded Funds
Most of these are traded on the Nigerian Exchange Limited.
The February 2026 numbers are out, and these Top 10 Money Market Funds are showing us how it’s done.
With returns between 18% and 24.3%, your money could be working much harder than it does in a regular bank account.
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The banana plant is not a tree — it is a giant herbaceous plant. What looks like a trunk is the pseudostem, formed by the tightly overlapping bases of its leaf sheaths. 🌿
Understanding its anatomy helps make sense of how it grows, even in temperate gardens.
Flag leaf: the last leaf produced before flowering. Its appearance signals that the bunch is already forming inside the pseudostem — the plant is committed to fruiting.
Adult leaf: powers the photosynthesis that fills the fruit. Every leaf lost to wind damage or disease directly reduces the final weight of the bunch.
Leaf blade (lamina): the wide flat part of the leaf, crossed by a prominent midrib, with an upper surface (adaxial) and a lower surface (abaxial).
Pseudopetiole: the section connecting the leaf blade to the pseudostem.
Pseudostem: the false trunk, built entirely from tightly rolled leaf bases wrapped around each other. It can reach between 6 and 25 feet depending on variety, but contains no woody tissue whatsoever.
Bunch (bunch of hands): the complete fruit structure. Each row of bananas is a hand, and each individual banana is a finger. A bunch carries between 6 and 14 hands depending on variety and growing conditions.
Female flower hands: these develop into the hands of fruit. The female flowers open first and are the ones that set fruit.
Flower heart (male inflorescence): the pendant bud at the end of the bunch, containing the male flowers. In tropical cuisines it is cooked as a vegetable.
Sucker (pup): the lateral shoot emerging from the rhizome. This is the primary method of propagation — the parent plant dies after fruiting and the sucker takes over.
Rhizome: the true underground stem of the plant, from which both the roots and the suckers originate.
Roots: fibrous and shallow, concentrated in the top 12 inches of soil — which is why bananas need consistent surface moisture and do not compete well with deep-rooted plants.
In the US, banana plants can be grown in the ground year-round in zones 8 to 11. In zones 5 to 7, Musa basjoo — the Japanese fiber banana — is the most cold-hardy ornamental variety, surviving to around -10F with heavy mulching over the rhizome. Ensete ventricosum and Musa sikkimensis are other cold-tolerant options for northern gardens grown as summer tropicals in containers.
🌿 Not a tree. Not a palm. A giant herb that fruits once and hands the garden to its children.
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From ₦1,600 to almost ₦4,000 for the same trip to work.
Transportation costs are quietly becoming one of the biggest pressures on Nigerians.
How much has your daily commute increased recently?
The Nigerian equities market delivered an outstanding performance in February 2026, advancing 16.60% to close at a record 192,826.8 points and firmly crossing the 190,000 milestone.
The rally was fueled not just by price gains but also by strong trading in the month, with total volume surging past 21 billion shares, above January’s 15 billion.
Here are the Top 10 best-performing Nigerian stocks in February 2026.
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The January numbers are in! Nigeria's Money Market Funds are showing impressive Year-To-Date (YTD) performance, with RT Briscoe Savings & Investment Fund leading the pack at a remarkable 24.29%.
Check the image for the full breakdown of NAV and YTD percentages.
Nigeria ended 2025 on a positive economic note as headline inflation dropped to 15.15%, down from November’s revised figure of 17.33%.
This decline follows a comprehensive "CPI normalization" by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), which has seen price pressures ease across both urban and rural sectors throughout the year.
Are you worried that the new tax law means more deductions, higher food prices, or government debiting your account automatically in 2026? 🤔
Before you panic, separate the myths from the facts.
Read through to see what’s actually changing, who pays less or nothing, and what the law really says.
Every woman & girl has the right to feel safe everywhere.
Governments must invest in preventing gender-based violence, enforce laws, and end impunity.
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Top 10 Nigerian States with the Highest Debt to IGR Ratio in 2024.
Kaduna leads the chart at a staggering 13.77x, closely followed by Bauchi (13.28x) and Taraba (11.41x).
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Prices are shifting across Nigerian markets. Some staples dropped sharply, while others saw fresh increases between September and October 2025.
These are the latest figures from the Nairalytics Food Price Survey.
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