…the burden of public debt. Yusuf told The PUNCH that the interest rates offered on government bonds and treasury instruments were excessively high and required coordination between fiscal and monetary authorities to moderate. “It’s helping us to attract portfolio investment, but it’s creating a huge burden of debt serv…

…a tokenised savings product in Cameroon with local fintech Ejara that fractionalised government bonds into digital units retail investors could buy in small amounts through an app. The project gave thousands of low‑income savers access to high‑yield, low‑risk government bonds for the first time, with more than 11,000 u…

…rally up about 61% in April and May and a shift of funds from equities to high-yield government bonds. This market rotation, rather than an economic downturn, is driven by investors locking in gains and reallocating assets. Nigerian Treasury Bills are yielding between 16.13% and 17.51%, prompting large funds like pensi…