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READ MORENigeria | Ghana | Kenya ABRIDGED EDITION | Access the Full Report | contactus@acioe.com Executive Summary May 2026 marks a decisive inflection in the macroeconomic trajectories of Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya. The US-Israel-Iran conflict and extended Strait of Hormuz disruption, which defined April’s commodity pricing environment, registered differently across the three economies in May: Murban […]
Executive Summary: Africa is confronted by significant headwinds from the global fallout of the extended Strait of Hormuz blockade and downstream effects to global trade and critical industrial imports such as fertilisers and energy. Inflationary pressures grip the African continent revising inflation forecasts up in the near-term as countries prepare various policies to negotiate and […]
Executive Summary Sub-Saharan Africa’s major frontier economies navigated a more complex macroeconomic environment in March 2026, as diverging inflation trajectories, shifting capital flows, and rising global uncertainty tested the resilience of recent stabilization gains. Nigeria continued to face FX pressures, with the naira depreciating modestly over the month and gross reserves declining to $49.29 billion […]
Africa Renegotiates Its Risk Premium: The AfCRA, London’s Africa Debates, and the Revaluation of Sovereign Capital At the Africa Debates in London, Ghanaian President John Mahama and Finance Minister Dr. Ato Forson positioned Africa’s institutional response to Western credit frameworks as an assertive realignment of sovereign finance on African terms, framing the continent’s fiscal challenge […]
Tinubu’s Nairobi Debt Call and the $1.25 Billion World Bank Negotiation Signal a New Phase in Nigeria’s Development Finance Strategy Nigeria’s macro fiscal position moved to the centre of international attention in the second week of May as President Bola Tinubu used the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi on May 13 to disclose that the […]
Reserve Drawdown Enters Sixth Consecutive Week as Inflation Reversal Deepens Macro Pressure Nigeria’s external reserves shed approximately $855 million across five weeks, falling from $49.18 billion on April 1 to $48.33 billion by May 7, extending the drawdown identified in the April Bi-Weekly update into a fifth consecutive week. A partial recovery $218 million was […]
Nigeria’s 4Ps Model: From Reform Announcement to Execution Accountability Taiwo Oyedele’s appointment as Finance Minister following the resignation of Mr. Wale Edun is a consequential personnel decision. His leadership of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reform Committee, built on a PwC career focused on tax architecture, gives him genuine reform credibility. However, the fiscal […]
Inflation Reverses as Energy Shock Reignites Price Pressures Nigeria’s inflation path reversed in March, with headline inflation rising to 15.38% from 15.06% in February, the first increase in twelve months. More concerning is the sharp acceleration in monthly inflation to 4.18%, up from 2.01%, signaling a rapid and broad-based build-up in price pressures. The trigger […]
Headline Inflation Edges Down as Monthly Price Pressures Reverse Nigeria’s headline inflation edged down slightly to 15.06% in February from 15.10% in January, marking eleven straight months of year-on-year disinflation. On the surface, that looks like continued progress. Beneath it, the picture is more concerning. The monthly trend reversed sharply. Month-on-month inflation jumped to +2.01% […]
Inflation Falls to 15.15% , Nigeria-UAE Sign Trade Agreement and World Bank Upgrades Growth Forecast The noise doesn’t stop, but the patterns do emerge if you’re watching closely enough. We’ve sifted through the numbers, traced the policy moves, and connected the dots so you don’t have to spend your week doing it. Here’s what shaped […]
