“…The policy is a welcomed development as it has important implications for profitability, competition, and stability. Asides from the Nigerian banking industry, this work documents the threshold level in the nonperforming loans-bank profitability nexus, unlike extant studies that assume linear relationship in the literature (Rajha, 2017;Rosenkranz & Lee, 2019;Shingjergji, 2013;Ugoani, 2016;Vera-Gilces, Camino-Mogro, Ordeñana-Rodríguez, & Cornejo-Marcos, 2020;Yurttadur et al, 2019).…”