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Diversifying infrastructure funding: How Nigeria is re-thinking project finance

Naija News • Feb 22
Diversifying infrastructure funding: How Nigeria is re-thinking project finance
Spread the word Nigeria’s infrastructure challenge is no longer defined by a lack of ambition, but by capital deployed inefficiently. Decades of reliance on public budgets, sovereign borrowing, and bilateral aid have produced abandoned projects, underperforming assets, and widening deficits. Roads that lead nowhere and power plants that never come online are not failures of intent; they are failures of structure. What is changing is how infrastructure is financed. Nigeria is transitioning from fragmented, debt-heavy models toward a coordinated ecosystem of project finance instruments designed to attract private capital, manage risk, and deliver measurable economic outcomes. At the centre of this shift is a strategic architecture that blends public finance, private investment, development...
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