Navigating the New Frontier: Risk, Oversight, and Cooperation Under Nigeria’s Investments and Securities Act 2025

Oluwatoyin Adenugba
Abdul-Malik Yerima

Introduction

Nigeria’s capital market has arrived at a new regulatory era defined by intelligence-driven supervision, systemic risk awareness, and deeper collaboration between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the entities it oversees. The Investments and Securities Act 2025 (ISA 2025) has reshaped the investments and securities governance framework by making risk avoidance central to what regulators do, as well as ensuring market integrity as its major objective.