Nigeria, April 9 -- Three things.

One, Access Holdings has just declared a profit after tax of N612 billion, with a 300 per cent increase year-on-year.

Two, the return of Aigboje Aig-Imokhuede to Access, not as CEO of Access Bank, which he was until 2013, but this time as Chairman of Access Holdings, the umbrella for the different interests of Access, including Access Bank, in which he, along with Herbert Wigwe, through their jointly owned company, acquired substantial interest in 2002, thus becoming the largest single shareholder, then taking over management of the Bank (with Imoukhuede as managing director and Wigwe as deputy managing director).

Three, the announcement that Access Bank has entered a binding agreement to acquire Natio...