Home traders have continued to dominate the Nigerian Trade Restricted’s buying and selling exercise, with N1.67 trillion value of transactions recorded in July 2025, outpacing international participation.
This improvement underscores the rising affect of native traders in shaping the Nigerian capital market’s trajectory. Additionally, the numerous improve within the complete worth of home transactions in July 2025 has been attributed to dam trades.
The ‘Home & International Portfolio Funding Report’ for July revealed that home transactions accounted for N1.67 trillion, or 91.96 per cent of complete fairness trades in July 2025. In distinction, international portfolio investments stood at N145.95 billion, representing simply 8.04 per cent of the entire.
The entire transactions on the nation’s bourse elevated considerably by 133.09 per cent from N778.65 billion in June 2025 to N1.815 trillion in July 2025.
Additionally, a comparability of home transactions confirmed that retail transactions elevated by 88.07 per cent from N274.63 billion in June 2025 to N516.50 billion in July 2025. Nevertheless, the institutional composition of the home market elevated considerably by 216.03 per cent from N364.71 billion in June 2025 to N1.1526 trillion in July 2025.
In the meantime, over an 18-year interval, home transactions elevated by 33.15 per cent from N3.556 trillion in 2007 to N4.735 trillion in 2024, whereas international transactions elevated by 38.31 per cent from N616 billion to N852 billion over the identical interval.
Whole home transactions accounted for about 85 per cent of the entire transactions carried out in 2024, whereas international transactions accounted for about 15 per cent of the entire transactions in the identical interval. The transaction knowledge for 2025 confirmed that complete home transactions are circa N4.7269 trillion, whereas complete international transactions are circa N1.28123 trillion.
Analysts from Cordros Capital acknowledged, “within the close to time period, we anticipate home traders to stay the first drivers of transaction worth, supported by an anticipated decline in mounted revenue yields, which is predicted to maintain shopping for curiosity. Moreover, the relative stability of the naira is more likely to encourage elevated participation from international traders within the equities market; nonetheless, prevailing international uncertainties current a draw back threat to sustained inflows.”
Capital market analysts acknowledged that “the NGX is predicted to keep up its optimistic momentum in H2 2025, supported by ongoing banking sector capital raises, moderation in fixed-income yields, fiscal coverage reforms, and sustained international change stability.”
