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Nigeria's financial muscle could make it a superpower

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SidianBank on Standard Building along Kenyatta Avenue. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Nigerians have bought another Kenyan bank, Sidian when the ink on the acquisition of Transnational Bank by the same country had not yet dried.

And Sidian Bank may not be their last acquisition. Should we celebrate or weep over Nigerian acquisitions?

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