The incidence of unclaimed dividend remains one of the perennial issues that continued to rear its head in Nigeria’s capital market.

Dealers at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday exchanged 559.08 million shares worth N3.59 billion in 4,902 deals.

Asian shares slipped for a seventh straight session on Thursday as a mixed batch of US economic data did nothing to assuage concerns about global growth and deflation, keeping sovereign bonds well supported.