Economic Associates and 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, reg ulators, 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.econassociates.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 equ ity 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 acceler ation 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.
Conference Agenda
Session 2 is particularly timely. The geopolitical tension involving the United States, Israel, and Iran has introduced a new layer of external risk into Nigeria's oil export revenue and energy pricing outlook. The session will provide a structured analyti cal assessment of the transmission channels through which this conflict could affect Nigeria's fiscal position, foreign exchange receipts, and growth trajectory, and the policy responses available to mitigate that exposure.
Who the Conference Is Designed For
The conference is convened for senior professionals whose strategic and allocation decisions require a rigorous understanding of Nigeria's macroeconomic environment.
Target participants include chief executive officers and executive directors of Nigerian a nd multinational companies; chief financial officers, chief risk officers, and treasurers managing balance sheet exposure to naira volatility, interest rate risk, and inflation; portfolio managers, sovereign credit analysts, and fund strategists assessing Nigeria exposure across fixed income, equities, and alternative asset classes; pension fund administrators and insurance company investment committees; development finance institutions and bilateral and multilateral agency representatives conducting countr y risk assessment; policymakers, regulatory professionals, and government ministry analysts; diplomats, strategic advisory firms, and media professionals tracking Nigeria's political economy; and donors and grant -making organisations with programme portfol ios in Nigeria.
Additional Note Nigeria's macroeconomic environment has shifted more rapidly over the past thirty months than at any comparable period in the country's reform history. Inflation has halved.
The foreign exchange market has largely unified. Gross reserves have multiplied. R eal GDP growth has accelerated to 4.07 percent in Q4 2025.
The question before every serious decision -maker is no longer whether the recovery is real. It is how durable the foundation is, and what allocations and strategies it demands. The EA -Proshare Economic Outlook Conference on 16 April 2026 is designed to answer that question with evidence rather than opinion.
The Facilitators
Dr Ayo Teriba | Chief Executive Officer, Economic Associates Dr Ayo Teriba is among Nigeria's most rigorous and evidence -driven macroeconomists.
He is CEO of Economic Associates, Visiting Faculty at the Nigerian University of Technology and Management, and formerly Vice -Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Nat ional Council on Privatization and Member of the Governing Council of the Ministry of Finance Incorporated.
His academic formation spans the University of Ibadan, where he graduated as the all -round 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, N20 0, 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, F CI oD , 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 Portf olio 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 Office r 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.
About the Co -Hosts Economic Associates Incorporated in 2004, Economic Associates equips decision -makers in the public and private sectors with the analytical tools required to create, preserve, and optimise economic value in Nigeria. EA's service model operates across four domains: Global Outlo ok, covering the ripple effects of geopolitics and technology on global income and wealth; National Outlook, addressing how to stabilise revenue, debt costs, foreign exchange, and growth; Subnational Outlook, focused on state -level solvency, value chain re generation, and economic upgrading; and Corporate Outlook, covering transaction rebalancing and portfolio optimisation.
EA's conference, subscription report, and in -house advisory services have served clients spanning manufacturing, banking, investment man agement, consulting, government, multinational corporations, embassies, and multilateral development partners.
Proshare Nigeria Limited Founded in 2006, Proshare Nigeria Limited is a professional financial intelligence and market analytics platform serving as a critical bridge between markets, investors, regulators, and institutional stakeholders.
Proshare's research, editorial, and invest or relations services cover the Nigerian capital market, macroeconomic policy, corporate governance, and sector analysis.
Its platforms aggregate and disseminate institutional -grade financial intelligence through analyst notes, editorial commentary, invest or relations.