Roughly every decade, Nigeria’s business landscape experiences a structural shift, a reordering of market power that defines the era that follows. These shifts are rarely accidental; they are shaped by the interplay of technology, regulation, and entrepreneurial response. In the 1990s, the rise of the New Generation Banks redefined financial services by using VSAT and digital infrastructure to detach banking from physical branches. Technology became the new basis of competition. The 2000s then ushered in what we may call the Decade of Ubiquity, as GSM providers democratized voice connectivity and fundamentally changed how Nigerians communicated and conducted commerce.
The 2010s elevated this transformation through the spread of mobile internet. Telecommunications firms evolved from voice providers into platforms enabling banking, education, and commerce through the smartphone, effectively turning the mobile device into the most powerful utility tool in modern Nigeria. Today, we are living through the Decade of Application Utility, where innovators are building digital solutions that combine technologies to remove friction in finance, logistics, and supply chains. These builders are quietly designing the operating layer of a more efficient, digitally enabled economy.
This continuous evolution points us toward the next frontier. With the passage of the Investment and Securities Act (ISA) 2025, Nigeria now has the legislative foundation to expand and deepen its capital markets in ways not seen in decades. While peer markets such as South Africa have achieved far greater capitalization through broader asset inclusion, Nigeria’s opportunity lies in onboarding new asset classes, enabling capital formation at scale, and building the financial market infrastructure required to support long-term economic redesign.
In this TEKEDIA OPEN session, we will explore why the coming decade will become Nigeria’s Decade of the Capital Market, and what businesses, investors, and institutions must do to unlock that value and win. You’re invited.
Topic: Nigeria’s Capital Market: The Biggest Business Opportunity of the Next Decade — How to Unlock Value and Win
Speaker: Prof Ndubuisi Ekekwe
Date: Saturday, March 7, 2026
Time: 2-3pm WAT
Location: Zoom (link will be shared two days to the webinar here)
In June, we will run a program on Nigeria’s capital market. Tekedia Nigerian Capital Market Masterclass is a practitioner-led, intensive program designed to deepen the human capabilities needed to power Nigeria’s modern capital market. The Masterclass blends applied knowledge, real-market processes, regulatory frameworks, technology infrastructure, and hands-on case studies covering the entire capital market value chain.
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