Economic Associates, Proshare to host Nigeria Country Watch Economic Outlook Conference on 16 April 2026 in Lagos

Economic Associates (EA) and Proshare Nigeria Limited have announced a One-Day Hybrid Conference on Nigeria’s Economic Outlook, scheduled to hold on Thursday, April 16th, 2026, at Lagos Continental Hotel, Plot 52A Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm, with parallel virtual participation available on Zoom.

The conference is part of the EA-Proshare Country Watch Service, a joint institutional research and intelligence initiative that provides macroeconomic analysis, forward guidance, and scenario modelling for professional investors, corporate executives, regulators, policymakers, and multilateral institutions with exposure to Nigeria.

The One-Day Hybrid Event Brings Together Nigeria’s Senior Decision-Makers to Interrogate the 2026 Outlook Across Price Stability, Market Liquidity, and Output Growth.

Attendance is open to the public by prior reservation and is priced at N475,000 per person. Confirmed participants will receive conference materials ahead of the event. Reservations may be completed at www.economicassociates.com.

What the Conference Will Address
The conference programme is organised around three analytical sub-themes that form the core of the EA-Proshare Country Watch framework. Each sub-theme will be addressed with new empirical evidence, scenario modelling, and forward projections drawn from EA’s Oxford Economics-calibrated econometric model and Proshare’s capital markets intelligence infrastructure.

The first sub-theme, Price Stability, will examine the exchange rate trajectory and the outlook for further devaluation or convergence; consumer price inflation and the sustainability of the deceleration from the 34.6 percent peak of November 2024 to the 15.1 percent reading of January 2026; real interest rates and the implications of the current Monetary Policy Rate environment for investment and credit growth; and the All Share Index trajectory as a measure of capital gains and investor confidence in the price stability narrative.

The second sub-theme, Market Liquidity, will examine the composition and sustainability of the foreign reserve stock, now reported at over $50 billion gross and $34.8 billion net; money supply dynamics and the monetary transmission implications of the CBN’s tightening posture; bond market issuance and yield dynamics, including the spread between the CBN’s Open Market Operations rate and the DMO’s primary market stop rates; and equity issuance and market capitalisation trends, including the tripling of NGX equity market capitalisation from N40.9 trillion in 2023 to N126 trillion in early 2026.

The third sub-theme, Output Growth, will examine nominal GDP performance in both naira and dollar terms, including the recovery of dollar GDP to $308 billion in 2025 and the distance remaining to the 2019 peak of $569 billion; real GDP growth rates by quarter and by sector; and the acceleration dynamics that will determine whether the 3.87 percent full-year 2025 growth rate represents a durable structural recovery or a cyclical upturn vulnerable to external shocks.

best economics student in 1988, Cambridge University, where he earned an MPhil in Economics of Developing Countries as a Cambridge-DfID Scholar, and Durham University, where he completed a PhD in Applied Econometrics and Monetary Economics in 2003.

Dr Teriba has consulted for DfID, GIZ, USAID, UNDP, UNIDO, and the World Bank, served as Visiting Scholar to the IMF Research Department in Washington DC, and received research grants from the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. He coordinated the Technical Working Group on Financial Sector and Capital Markets for Nigeria’s National Development Plan 2021 to 2025. His reform advocacy record includes a pioneering case for naira re-denomination that directly influenced the introduction of the N100, N200, N500, and N1,000 notes, and a sustained argument for unlocking sovereign asset liquidity that contributed to the rebirth of the Ministry of Finance Incorporated.

Olufemi Awoyemi FCA, FCTI, FCIB, FCIoD, ACS, mni | Founder and Chairman, Proshare LLC
Olufemi Awoyemi is the Founder and Chairman of Proshare LLC, a financial intelligence and market analysis platform he has built over nearly two decades into one of Nigeria’s most respected institutional research and investor relations infrastructure providers. He is a Member of the National Institute and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, and the Chartered Institute of Directors.

Mr Awoyemi has served on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Capital Market Committee on FinTech Roadmap for Nigeria, as the Institute of Directors representative on the National Action Committee for AfCFTA implementation, as a founding Governing Council member of the Fintech Association of Nigeria, and as Technical Advisor to the National Assembly House Committee on Capital Markets. He currently serves as a Governing Council Member and Vice-President of the Association of Investment Advisers and Portfolio Managers, Trustee of the African Fintech Network, and Executive Council Member of the Nigerian British Chamber of Commerce.

Dr Muda Yusuf | Founder and CEO, Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise
Dr Muda Yusuf is one of Nigeria’s foremost private-sector economists and policy advocates, with over three decades of leadership across economic policy reform, investment climate analysis, and business advocacy. He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise, a policy think tank committed to advancing market-oriented reform and private sector competitiveness. He previously served as Director-General of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry for over a decade, during which period the LCCI became the foremost platform for structured government-business dialogue in Nigeria.

Dr Yusuf is a recognised authority on foreign exchange policy, petroleum downstream deregulation, port and customs reform, monetary and fiscal policy design, and financial sector development. He holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from the Swiss Business School, a Masters in Applied Business Research from the same institution, a Masters in Economics from the University of Lagos, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Ilorin. He is an alumnus of Lagos Business School’s Advanced Management Programme.