Ademola Lookman, a 30-year-old Nigerian engineer, was a happy man in June. His local stock portfolio was up by around 18 percent, thanks to a collection of consumer goods and banking stocks he held. The Nigerian stock market seemed to have been eluded by the global stock market downturn.
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