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Nigeria stock market historical data

NGX, home of the NGX All-Share. Trading hours, tickers 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

Nigeria key facts

  • Nigeria's stock market trades on NGX, priced in NGN; its headline indices are NGX All-Share.
  • Nigerian Exchange, founded 1960 in Lagos, trades 10:00 to 14:30 WAT (09:30 pre open), Monday to Friday, regulated by Securities and Exchange Commission (Nigeria).
  • Nigeria is in the DataCedar launch queue: NGX in wave 4.
  • 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.

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.

About Nigeria market data on DataCedar

Nigeria trades on NGX, priced in NGN, and its headline indices are NGX All-Share. DataCedar stores one daily bar per trading session for every listing, back to the first session it can source, and one minute bar per trading minute from the day capture begins for that symbol, all under one schema and one API.

Coverage arrives in launch order, which follows measured demand; NGX in wave 4. Tell us which symbols you need; requests move the queue. See pricing and every exchange.

Nigeria stock data by API

One call per symbol, the same schema on every exchange: timeframe 1Min to 1Day, adjustment raw or all, start and end. 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"

ExchangesNigeria exchanges and how to get the data

Each exchange has its own page: trading hours, ticker convention, indices, and the symbols A to Z once it is live.

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