{"id":30031,"date":"2026-03-26T17:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30031"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:08:54","slug":"nigerias-capital-inflows-jump-90-in-2025-as-foreign-investors-chase-high-returns","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nigerias-capital-inflows-jump-90-in-2025-as-foreign-investors-chase-high-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s capital inflows jump 90% in 2025 as foreign investors chase high returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Capital inflows into Nigeria jumped nearly 90% in 2025, driven \u200boverwhelmingly by foreign portfolio investment as investors \u200creturned to local financial markets to chase high bond yields after economic reforms.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Net capital invested from \u200babroad rose to $23.22 billion from $12.32 billion in \u200b2024, official data shows.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The increase was led \u2060by foreign portfolio investment, which surged \u200bto $19.74 billion from $8.38 billion, accounting for about 85% \u200bof total inflows.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Among the main categories of investment, inflows into money\u2011market instruments climbed to $13.83 billion, while bond \u200binflows jumped nearly fivefold to $4.89 billion. Equity \u200bportfolio investment rose to $2.10 billion.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>By contrast, foreign direct investment increased \u200conly \u2060modestly to $923 million, up from $675 million in 2024, underscoring persistent investor caution over long\u2011term commitments.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Capital inflows categorised as &#8220;other investment&#8221;, including loans, \u200bfell to $2.55 billion \u200bfrom $3.27 billion. \u2060The United Kingdom was the largest source of inflows, accounting for \u200b58%, while the banking sector received \u200bthe \u2060biggest share.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Analysts say the data shows foreign investors are trading Nigeria again, but largely for \u2060yield \u200brather than long\u2011term productive \u200binvestment, leaving the economy vulnerable to shifts in global financial \u200bconditions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20726,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-30031","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"By contrast, foreign direct investment increased \u200conly \u2060modestly to $923 million.","published_date":"","news_description":"By contrast, foreign direct investment increased \u200conly \u2060modestly to $923 million.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30036,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30031\/revisions\/30036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}