Every ten years in Nigeria’s business landscape, a major redesign takes place. In the 1990s, the new generation banks arrived with technology as their competitive arsenal. They used VSAT to integrate branches, making banking location-agnostic and forcing the old banks to evolve or fade. A decade later, the GSM revolution began, and voice telephony reshaped commerce, social interaction, and national productivity.
Then came the 2010s. The telcos elevated the game, moving Nigerians from pure telephony to mobile internet, and our phones became mini-bank branches, mini-schools, mini-offices, and indeed the epicenter of our economic lives.
Today, we are in the decade of application utility, a cambrian moment where young people are building digital stacks, recombining tools, and fixing frictions across financial services, logistics, commerce, healthcare, and more. The market is being redesigned from the bottom up. And the game is just starting…
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Yes, because of the Investment and Securities Act (ISA) 2025, the 2030s will become Nigeria’s Capital Market Decade. The ISA 2025 is arguably one of the most consequential business legislations Nigeria has seen in 25 years. It provides the framework for a massive expansion of asset formation and economic redesign.
- New asset classes will emerge.
- New instruments will be created.
- New wealth will be constructed.
Consider this: South Africa’s stock market is worth more than $1 trillion. Nigeria’s? Less than $70 billion, largely because our asset classes are shallow and underrepresented. ISA 2025 will change that. It opens the door to derivatives, commodities, fractional assets, digital instruments, and structured products that will deepen the market and unlock national prosperity.
In this 18th Graduation Lecture of Tekedia Mini-MBA, I will explain this future on how financial market infrastructure will evolve, how assets will be digitized and democratized, and how abundance will emerge for those who position themselves early. Indeed, a new era is coming. And Nigeria is about to experience the capital market renaissance of a generation.
Sat, Dec 6 | 7pm – 8.30pm WAT | It’s Graduation Day: 2030s – The Decade of Nigeria’s Capital Market – Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Zoom Link
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