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The Rio Times Africa Intelligence

Monday, August 3, 2026

By Matthias Camenzind, Publisher

Nigeria's market is being sold off to buy into Dangote.

Investors are liquidating positions across the Nigerian Exchange to free up cash for the Dangote refinery listing — a reallocation big enough to move the whole market. One company is now pulling capital out of every other listed name in the country. It is the clearest sign yet that Africa's largest industrial project has become the gravitational centre of Nigerian finance.

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Good morning from the Africa desk. Two forces run through today's file: capital rearranging itself around a few giant assets, and governments discovering the limits of what they can tax or borrow.

In Lagos, the whole exchange is being sold ...