Blog Column - VIP Magazine

AI Stocks Crash Hits Global Markets as $800B Spending Spree Rattles Investors

23 Oct 2026

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Global markets opened Friday under heavy pressure after a brutal Wall Street session set off awave of selling across Asian trading floors. The Nasdaq Composite,...

Naira Suffers Sharpest Daily Drop in 18 Months, Closes at N1,365/$

23 Oct 2026

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The naira has recorded its sharpest single-day decline in 18 months, closing at N1,365 to the USdollar on Thursday after shedding N28 in a single...

Dangote Just Bought A Quarter Of Kenya’s National Pipeline For $327 Million

22 Oct 2026

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Africa’s richest man just made his boldest cross-border move yet. In an announcement thatrippled across the continent’s markets this morning, the Dangote Group confirmed it...

Ghana’s $11.6bn Gold Boom: How Artisanal Miners Rewrote the Trade

21 Oct 2026

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Ghana’s gold export numbers released today confirm what West African commodity traders havebeen whispering about since the summer: the country’s small-scale and artisanal gold sector...

Oyedele’s Warning: Bring Back Fuel Subsidy and the Naira Could Crack

20 Oct 2026

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Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele says reinstating petrol subsidy would drive pump prices past ₦2,000 a litre and push the naira toward ₦3,000 to the dollar...

World Bank Lifts Nigeria’s 2026 Growth Forecast — But Flags a Poverty Trap

07 Oct 2026

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The World Bank on Wednesday nudged its 2026 growth forecast for Nigeria upward,pointing to the Tinubu administration’s FX and subsidy reforms as finally translating intomeasurable...

Belgian-American Physicist Francis Halzen Wins 2026 Nobel in Physics

06 Oct 2026

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday morning awarded the 2026Nobel Prize in Physics to Francis Halzen, the Belgian-American particle physicist whosedecades-long bet on...

Dangote and Ruto launch $16bn Kenya refinery despite Lamu land protests

01 Oct 2026

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Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote and Kenyan President William Ruto have formally launched construction of a $16 billion oil refinery in the coastal county of Lamu,...

Europe launches a ‘digital euro for banks’

22 Sep 2026

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The European Central Bank (ECB) has launched Pontes, a new infrastructure designed to connect Europe’s traditional financial system with blockchain-based markets, marking a major step...