Bargain hunting in Flour Mills and 27 others underpinned its performance with a gain of N1 billion
Also, the All-Share Index lost 139.02 points to close at 47,063.28 compared with 47,202.30 posted on Friday.
BUA says Dangote and Flour Mills plan to profit from creating an artificial sugar scarcity and later blackmail the federal government.
The market negative performance was driven by price depreciation in stocks like BUA Foods, MTNN, Unilever, Fidson Healthcare and United Capital.
The All-Share Index dipped 150.97 points or 0.34 per cent to close at 44,454.67 against Thursday’s 44,604.74.
The upturn was impacted by gains in the following stocks: Dangote Cement, BUA Foods, MRS Oil, Vitafoam and PZ Cussons.
BUA Foods was the toast of investors, exchanging 204.59 million shares valued at N10.06 billion.
The performance was impacted by gains recorded in medium and large capitalised stocks.
Market sentiment was positive with 21 gainers relative to 17 losers.
