Nigeria · NGN · Lagos

Nigerian Exchange

NGX, Lagos: trading hours, tickers, settlement and indices, and how its historical price data arrives on DataCedar.

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NGX trading day, Monday to Friday

10:00 to 14:30 WAT09:00 to 13:30 UTC

NGX All-Share, priced in NGN, settling T+2.

1960
Founded in Lagos
150
Listed companies
USD 50 billion
Market capitalisation

NGX key facts

  • Nigerian Exchange is a Nigeria stock exchange in Lagos, founded in 1960, trading in NGN; its headline indices are NGX All-Share.
  • NGX trades 10:00 to 14:30 WAT (09:30 pre open), Monday to Friday, settling T+2; it lists about 150 listed companies (2025).
  • NGX is wave 4 of the DataCedar launch order; its pages appear the day its collectors run.
  • Daily bars run back to each symbol's first sourced session; minute bars run from the day capture began for the symbol and are never backfilled.
  • Trading sessions follow the Africa/Lagos calendar.

About NGX

Full name
Nigerian Exchange
Location
Lagos, Nigeria
Founded
1960
Operator
Nigerian Exchange Group
Regulator
Securities and Exchange Commission (Nigeria)
Trading hours
10:00 to 14:30 WAT (09:30 pre open)
Trading days
Monday to Friday
Time zone
Africa/Lagos
Currency
NGN
Settlement
T+2
Ticker convention
Letter codes (DANGCEM, MTNN, ZENITHBANK, GTCO)
Headline indices
NGX All-Share
Listed
about 150 listed companies (2025)
Market capitalisation
about USD 50 billion (2025)
  • Demutualised in 2021 and renamed from the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
  • The NGX All-Share Index is the benchmark; NGX 30 tracks the largest names.
  • Banks, cement and telecoms dominate the market's capitalisation.
  • NGX publishes daily price lists; historical data is licensed through its data services.

NGX historical data on DataCedar

NGX comes online in wave 4 of the launch order, which follows measured demand. On that day every listing gets a page with its returns, records and year by year table, and the same API call as every other exchange: daily bars back to the first session that can be sourced, minute bars from the day capture starts, priced in NGN, session dates on the NGX calendar.

Until then the exchange's own publications (see its data note above) are the source for NGX history. Read the coverage note, see pricing for the plan windows, or tell us which symbols you need.

NGX data by API

One call per symbol, the same schema on every exchange. timeframe is 1Min, 5Min, 15Min, 1Hour or 1Day; adjustment is raw, split, dividend or all; start and end bound the window. See the bars endpoint.

curl "https://api.datacedar.com/v3/stocks/SYMBOL/bars?timeframe=1Day&adjustment=all&limit=50000" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"

Until it is liveNGX on DataCedar

NGX comes online in wave 4 of the launch order. On that day every listing gets a page and the same API call as every other exchange.

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NGX historical data

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