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The Nigeria Equity market closed this week’s trading session in negative territory, as key performance indicators “the NGX-ASI and the Market Capitalization” both decreased by -0.69%. As the market closed ahead of the break, profit-taking activities took place in some medium and large cap stocks, triggering the market pullback. Notable decliners included ARADEL, PRESCO, GTCO, UBA, WEMABANK, and others, across key market sectors. The Oil & Gas sector took the biggest hit today as it declined by 4.58%. Specifically, the market index (All-Share Index) fell by -1,402.72 basis points in today’s trading session, indicating a -0.69% decline to close at 201,156.85, while Market Capitalization fell by ₦900.44 billion, representing a decline of -0.69%, settling at ₦129.13 trillion. Despite today’s negative closing, investors’ wealth grew by an aggregate of ₦1.8 trillion, as trading activities closed for the week.
However, market activities were up today as the Total Volume of trades and the Total Value traded increased by +246.00% and 47.64% respectively. Approximately 6,061.26 million units valued at ₦130,059.86 million were transacted across 58,562 deals. As regards volume, WEMABANK generated 12.52% to emerge the most traded, followed by WAPIC (10.84%), DANGCEM (8.46%), ACCESSCORP (6.91%), and ZENITHBANK with 6.13%. On value traded, DANGCEM generated 53.41% of the total value of trade, thereby making it the highest traded on the exchange.
Meanwhile, on the best performers’ chart, NSLTECH led by generating +10.00%, then trailed by GUINNESS (+9.92%), JOHNHOLT (+9.72%), SOVRENINS (+9.57%), LINKASSURE (+9.33%), AUSTINLAZ (+8.54%), and twenty-five others. A total of thirty-eight (38) stocks depreciated. With a price depreciation of -9.98%, REDSTAREX topped the worst performers’ chart, followed by ARADEL (-9.68%), PRESCO (-9.30%), LIVINGTRUST (-8.40%), DAARCOMM (-7.50%), and GTCO (-7.41%). Hence, the market breadth closed on a negative note as there were 31 gainers and 38 losers.
Finally, the market sectoral performance was positive today as three of the five major market sectors appreciated. The Consumer goods sector increased by +1.19%, followed by the Industrial goods sector (+0.46%), and the Insurance sector (+0.43%). The Oil & Gas sector and the Banking sector declined by -4.58% and -2.14% respectively.
Following the recently rebased data released by NBS, the country’s GDP stood at 4.07% in Q4’2025, marking a 9bps growth from the 3.98% recorded in Q3 2025. Furthermore, on a year-on-year basis, the growth rate in the fourth quarter of the year reflects a
31bps improvement compared to the 3.76% posted in Q4, 2024. Overall, the annual GDP growth rate in 2025 stood at 3.87%, from 3.38% recorded in 2024.
Sectoral GDP Dynamics: Oil vs. Non-Oil
The non-oil sector contributed 97.13% to total GDP in Q4 2025, an increase from 96.56% in Q3 2025, but lower than 97.20% recorded in Q4 2024. Conversely, the Oil sector’s contribution dropped by 0.57% to 2.87% in Q4 2025, down from 3.44% in Q3 2025, attributed to decline in crude oil production compared to the previous quarter.
However, in terms of growth, the Oil sector advanced by 0.85% points, recording a growth rate of 6.79% in
Q4 2025, compared to 5.84% in Q3 2025. Likewise, the non-oil sector recorded real GDP growth of 3.99%,
up by 0.08% points compared to 3.91% in Q3 2025. The country’s crude oil production averaged 1.58mbpd in Q4, 2025, which was higher than the daily average crude oil production of 1.54mbpd recorded in the same quarter of 2024, but 0.06mbpd lower than the Q3’2025 production volume of 1.64mbpd.
Agricultural Sector Shows Resilience
Agricultural sector posted a real growth rate of 4.00% in Q4 2025, an improvement of 22bps from 3.79%
growth recorded in Q3 2025. Also, the sector’s performance expanded by 1.46% points when compared to Q4 2024, when it grew by 2.54%. The growth in the sector despite insecurity challenges can be attributed increased importation of agricultural
products, as well as improved mechanization, Export restriction for some raw products further boosted the sector’s growth. Nevertheless, the sector contribution to the GDP dropped, standing at 28.65% in Q4 2025, which was 255bps lower than 31.21% recorded in Q3 2025.
