On a recent Monday, Nigeria woke up to the news that Access Bank had agreed to acquire all issued share capital of Diamond Bank in a deal that will see Diamond bank shareholders a consideration of N3.13 per share and puts the total value on the acquisition at around N72 billion. Significant as it
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